Job Description
Job Title:  Software Engineering Professional
Req ID:  63018
Job Function:  Data & AI
Posting Start Date:  22/09/2026
Posting End Date:  25/09/2026
Division:  Digital
Job Location:  IND-Bengaluru-RMZ Ecoworld
Advertised Salary:  Competitive

Recruiter: Sowmya Reddy

Hiring Manager: Sajal Goyal

Career Grade: E

About the role

We are seeking a dynamic Gen AI Engineer with strong foundational experience in AI/ML and hands-on expertise in Generative AI to build intelligent solutions for the procurement function. The role focuses on leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, and enterprise data to automate sourcing, contract management, supplier insights, and spend analytics.

What you’ll be doing

1. Gen AI Solution Development

  • Develop Gen AI use cases across procurement:
  • Contract summarization and clause extraction
  • RFx (RFP/RFQ) document generation
  • Supplier risk insights and evaluation
  • Spend classification and query-based analytics
  • Build and enhance procurement copilots and chatbots for business users


2. LLM & RAG Implementation

  • Design and implement RAG pipelines using procurement documents and enterprise datasets
  • Work with LLM ecosystems:
  • Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock
  • Apply prompt engineering and embeddings for domain-specific optimization


3. Data Integration

  • Integrate data from:
  • ERP systems (SAP, Oracle)
  • Procurement platforms (Ariba, Coupa, Sirion)
  • Process structured/unstructured data (contracts, invoices, vendor data)


4. Model Optimization & Evaluation

  • Fine-tune and evaluate models for procurement-specific scenarios
  • Improve response quality, reduce hallucinations, and ensure accuracy
  • Implement feedback loops for continuous improvements


5. Deployment & Engineering

  • Develop APIs and microservices for AI integration
  • Deploy scalable solutions on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Work with vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate)

 

6. Collaboration & Innovation

  • Work closely with procurement stakeholders and product teams
  • Translate business requirements into AI-driven solutions
  • Contribute to POCs, innovation initiatives, and roadmap planning

Essential Skills / Experience

Experience:

  • 3 to 5 years of total experience in software/AI engineering
  • Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in Generative AI / LLM development
  • Exposure to procurement or supply chain domain preferred


Technical Skills:

  • Strong programming in Python


Experience with: 

  • LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
  • Prompt engineering & RAG pipelines
  • REST API development
  • Knowledge of NLP fundamentals
  • Cloud & Tools


Experience with at least one: 

  • Azure OpenAI / AWS Bedrock / GCP Vertex AI
  • Familiarity with data platforms like BigQuery, Snowflake, or Databricks
  • Basic understanding of MLOps/DevOps pipelines
  • Data & AI Skills
  • Embeddings and vector search
  • Text processing and document intelligence
  • Model evaluation and tuning

Desirable Skills / Experience

  • Procurement lifecycle knowledge: 
    Source-to-Contract (S2C)
    Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
  • Familiarity with tools like: SAP Ariba, Coupa, Sirion

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good.  Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. 

 

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

 

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

 

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country.   Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.