AI Engineer (Agentic / Gen AI)
- Location India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai Head Qrs.
- Experience 10-20 yrs
- Job type Full-time
- Posted 15 Oct 2026
- Qualification PhD / Master's
You will be taken to Larsen & Toubro Ltd.’s own careers page to apply. Job ID LNT/AE-G/1896643.
Job description
Job Title: Applied Research Engineer, AI (EPC & Manufacturing) Focus areas : Edge AI, Agentic AI Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu Job Summary: You'll lead applied research in creating and optimizing small language models (SLMs) and derived models for range of use cases cutting across both structured and unstructured data – for edge AI deployment, powering agentic systems, digital threads, and highly contextual knowledge graphs. Focus on real-world EPC/manufacturing scenarios like autonomous workflow orchestration, connected operations, and aimed at taking digital transformation in these sectors to the next generation of technologies and with breakthrough impact. Key Responsibilities:
- Design, train, and distill SLMs or derived models (e.g., from Llama/Mistral) for domain-specific
tasks in EPC/manufacturing, with deeper context engineering and mature agentic AI workflows, optimizing for low-latency inference on edge devices for site level intelligence and predictability.
- Architect agentic AI frameworks that leverage SLMs for autonomous decision-making, such as
