--- title: 'Lead Engineer / Founding Engineer at Turgon AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-engineer-founding-engineer-turgon-ai-delhi-7y86ep9ngnyp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Lead Engineer / Founding Engineer at Turgon AI - **Company:** Turgon AI - **Location:** Delhi, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-12-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/turgon-ai/c92044c7-b8ab-415c-81aa-60762a3e3b4b ## Job description ## About Us At Turgon, we believe there is a massive opportunity to reimagine how IT services are delivered by leveraging a combination of AI agents and humans to build, integrate and run the enterprise stack. AI agents that understand your existing infrastructure, processes and data and can rapidly add new business logic, generate new integrations on the fly, and root cause issues instantly. That’s a $1.5T opportunity!We are a startup based in San Francisco and New Delhi, founded by serial entrepreneurs.  With a growing office in South Delhi, we’re assembling a core leadership team to drive architecture, development and delivery across cloud infrastructure, full-stack web and LLM-powered back ends. Turgon is funded by 3 incredible investors from Silicon Valley and has been one of the most closely watched companies in the US AI innovation market, quoted by top VCs as one of the top 3 enterprise companies in the Valley. ## About the Role We are looking for a lead / founding engineer to help us rapidly scale our AI agents, productize our flows and deliver integration and data solutions to our customers. With a list of marquee customers such as Revlon, McCarthy Tires, Royal Orchid Hotels as well as an exploding demand for our AI-led services, we see this role as being pivotal to our growth. This is a great opportunity for an entrepreneurial engineer who wants to be at the cutting edge of AI agentic frameworks to work alongside repeat founders, build out the engineering organization and drive incredible impact. Core Responsibilities - Lead, mentor and grow a team of AI engineers, Data engineers, DevOps and Full-Stack engineers. - Architect, build and deploy end-to-end solutions spanning: - > Full-stack applications (Next.js, React, TypeScript, server-side rendering, APIs) - > LLM services (LangChain, LangGraph, Hugging Face integrations, model deployment) - > Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, security) - Hands-on implementation to bootstrap new projects, troubleshoot critical issues and optimize performance - Collaborate with the CTO and CEO to align architecture with business goals - Be on top of the latest research and developments in agentic frameworks. Interface with (and learn from) our AI advisors from OpenAI, Together, NYU etc. - Recruit, interview and onboard top engineering talent Must-Have Qualifications - 5+ years of hands-on experience across DevOps, Full-Stack and LLM-focused back-ends - Expert in at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP); comfortable designing IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines - Strong Python skills; hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph (including Multi-Agent Orchestration) and Hugging Face Transformer libraries - Experience deploying and serving ML/LLM models (Docker, Kubernetes, serverless) - Solid understanding of data pipelines (SQL/NoSQL) and observability tools - Excellent communication, planning and stakeholder-management abilities Nice-to-Have Skills - Prior startup or founding-team experience - TensorFlow, PyTorch or other ML framework expertise - Familiarity with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate) and MLOps tools (MLflow, TFX) - Experience/Familiarity with some Enterprise Software (Snowflake, Data Bricks, any ERP, CRM, Reporting and Analytics etc) or Data Engineering (Enterprise Data Pipelines, Integrations etc) Education & Certification - We don’t actually care about qualifications as long as you are a rockstar engineer who wants to keep learning and make a massive impact. ## What We Offer - A values aligned culture: always learning mindset, collaborative environment and an entrepreneurial approach to getting things done - Competitive, flexible salary based on experience - Equity via ESOPs - Leadership role shaping AI/LLM services at enterprise scale - Collaborative, high-energy startup culture in South Delhi and San Francisco - Access to top AI researchers worldwide to drive innovation and continuous learning - Flexible work-from-home days balanced with on-site collaboration ## About Turgon AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Turgon AI is the world's first AI-native system integrator that deploys swarms of specialized AI agents alongside human engineers to modernize legacy IT and data infrastructure for enterprises. - **Entity Type**: Private (Startup, Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with a secondary office in New Delhi, India) - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Ankur Varma (CEO), Nikhil Sama, Rudra Dalmia ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Enterprise Software, AI Infrastructure, Data Modernization - **Target customers**: Large enterprises (B2B) with legacy data systems, including those in finance, fintech, e-commerce, and traditional industries needing cloud migration and data unification. - **Mission or purpose statement**: To rewrite the data modernization playbook by using AI agents and human experts in tandem, delivering 5x faster delivery and 40% cost savings on data migration, system integration, data governance, and unification projects [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/turgon-ai). ## Products & Services - **Turgon Platform (The "Pod")**: A modular unit combining specialized AI agents (handling 80% of execution) and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) for oversight. Capabilities include: - **Ontology Builder**: Autonomously scans call logs, transcripts, documents, schemas, and data flows to construct a complete architecture map without manual discovery. - **Pipeline Builder**: Automates code migration, schema mapping, and testing. - **Governance Layer**: Manages data lineage and compliance. - **Outcome**: Legacy system migration, cloud-native deployment, and analytics-ready platforms delivered in weeks, not years [turgon.ai](https://www.turgon.ai/platform). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private startup). - **Key Metric**: 30 total employees; 18-50 employees reported on LinkedIn; rapid hiring in SF and Delhi. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders are experienced (2x founders, ex-Bain, ex-PE investors, ex-Silicon Valley engineers). No external funding rounds publicly disclosed yet. - **Growth Signals**: Reported 5x faster delivery and 40% cost savings for clients. Active job postings for senior technical roles (Founding Engineer, Lead Engineer, Senior AI Engineer) and GTM roles (Founding Account Executive) indicating strong product-market fit and scaling phase. LinkedIn following of ~3,400 with 3% monthly growth. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-Native Delivery Model**: Unlike traditional system integrators (Accenture, Deloitte) that rely on large teams of consultants, Turgon uses a "Pod" model where AI agents handle 80% of execution, drastically reducing cost and delivery time. - **Speed & Transparency**: Claims 5x faster delivery with full traceability of AI processes, avoiding the "black box" problem of typical AI deployments. - **Founder-Market Fit**: Leadership combines deep AI/engineering expertise (Nikhil Sama) with sales scaling experience (Rudra Dalmia) and venture-building (Ankur Varma), a rare mix in the integrator space. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Scaling engineering and sales teams (hiring Founding Account Executives, Lead Engineers, and Generative AI Engineers). Expanding presence in both San Francisco and Delhi to build a global delivery model. - **Direction for growth**: Becoming the default AI-native integration partner for Fortune 500 companies migrating off legacy systems. Developing deeper agentic architectures to automate more of the modernization lifecycle. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Described as "structured chaos, audacious goals, and shipping fast" by the leadership team [turgon.ai](https://www.turgon.ai/about). Serial entrepreneurs at the helm. Emphasis on "outcomes, not hours." - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid. San Francisco office (in-office or remote for some roles) and Delhi office (on-site). Forward Deployed Engineer roles are remote [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/turgon-ai). - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work as a "Founding Engineer" or "Forward Deployed Engineer" on cutting-edge AI agent systems. Hands-on work with a modern tech stack: TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLflow, OpenAI, Snowflake, Python, TypeScript. Direct access to founders. Fast-paced, high-ownership environment typical of early-stage startups. ## Sources 1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/turgon-ai) 2. [Turgon AI Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/turgon-ai) 3. [Turgon AI About Page](https://www.turgon.ai/about) 4. [Turgon AI Platform Page](https://www.turgon.ai/platform) 5. 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