Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Razorpay · Posted Oct 9
Online payment gateway, business banking, payroll, and financial services platform
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About the role
This role sits with the leaders building Razorpay's next decade, taking CxO-level problems from idea to live impact in weeks rather than quarters. The work spans AI agents, automations, internal tools, and customer-facing software, with freedom to choose whatever models, agents, frameworks, and tools fit the problem. The engineer operates as a one- or two-person team across engineering, product, design, and analysis, running experiments and shipping wherever leverage is highest.
What you will do
- Take a CxO-level problem from "we should do this" to "it's live, here's the impact", in 1 weeks, not quarters.
- Operate as engineer, PM, designer, and analyst. The role is whatever the problem needs.
- Build agents that automate parts of the org's work, yours included.
- Ship product, internal tools, customer-facing software, agent loops, automations, wherever leverage is highest.
- Run experiments. Have strong opinions about which models, which tools, and which workflows actually work, and prove them with output.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Background. 2–6 years of experience.
- Top engineering or CS school in India or abroad. Or you're currently at one of those schools and have decided dropping out and building is the better trade. Both paths land here.
- AI-first by default. Not "I use ChatGPT sometimes." Your daily workflow assumes AI is in the loop on every task that can be improved by it. Cursor, Claude Code, custom agents, MCPs, pick your stack and own it.
- Open-source model fluency. You've stress-tested the lineup, Llama, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and whatever's on the leaderboard this week. You have opinions on which one wins where, what they're bad at, and where the cost / latency / quality frontier sits today.
- Builder, not talker. Side projects, OSS contributions, internal tools at your last job, a hackathon weapon, something we can look at and say "that's a person who ships."
- Single-person army energy. Ambiguity, multi-hat, no playbook, energising rather than draining.
- Taste. You know good design, good UX, good code, and good prompts when you see them. You can articulate why one approach is better than another in a way that holds up under scrutiny.
- Eval mindset. You don't just "vibe-check" your AI work. You build the smallest possible eval before shipping, and have an opinion about why most AI products fail without one.
Preferred qualifications
- You've fine-tuned a model, even if just for fun.
- You've built agents that orchestrate other agents, not just single-shot LLM calls.
- You have a public artifact, GitHub stars, a blog, X posts that engineers quote, a YouTube channel where you build in public.
- You contribute to open-source AI tooling.
- You can show evidence of doing the work of five people in a quarter, and explain how.
- You've shipped a product with paying users, even at small scale.
- You've helped a startup or team replace a manual process with an agent that now runs on its own.
Benefits and support
- Direct line to a CxO from day one.
- Real ownership, products, businesses, P&L exposure, whatever the mandate requires.
- A team of one or two, shaped by you. We'll back the hires you want; we'll trust the calls you make.
- Founder-engineer compensation, not IC-engineer compensation.
- Freedom to use whatever models, agents, frameworks, and tools work best for the problem in front of you.
- Working with leaders building Razorpay's next decade, not maintaining the last one
About Razorpay
Razorpay is India's leading omnichannel payments and full-stack financial solutions company, providing an extensive suite of products to accept, process, and disburse digital payments. Beyond payment gateways, the company offers neo-banking solutions via RazorpayX, business loans, payroll management, and corporate credit cards. It serves millions of businesses ranging from startups and SMEs to large enterprises globally.
- Industry
- Fintech
- Company size
- 3000+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $742M raised
- 2021-12-19Series F$375M
- 2021-04-19Series E$160M
- 2020-10-12Series D$100M
- 2018-07-05Series C$75M
- 2016-07-12Series B$20M
Leadership
CEO and Co-founder
MD and Co-founder
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
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