AI Engineer 80–100% (m/f/d)

Our client is an established Swiss technology company focusing on demanding digitalization projects and innovative software solutions. In agile, interdisciplinary teams, forward-looking applications are created for customers from various industries such as banking, insurance, administration, transport, industry, and retail. A dynamic and collegial working environment awaits you, where professional competence, individual responsibility, and new ideas are central. You will work on varied projects, use modern technologies, and can contribute your expertise from the initial idea to productive operation. What the company offers • Exciting and innovative GenAI projects from workshops and Proof of Concepts to productive implementation • Great creative freedom in the development of modern AI solutions • Collaboration with experienced AI, ML, and software engineering specialists • Collegial working culture with short decision-making paths and flat hierarchies • Flexible and individually adaptable working time models • Possibility for personal time off and flexible work design • Attractive continuing education offers and individual development opportunities • Modern workplaces in a central location in Zürich • Varied assignments in internal project teams as well as directly with customers • An innovative environment in which new technologies are actively tested and used Our client requests • Several years of experience in the development of GenAI applications, ideally in productive customer or product use • Completed Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a comparable field of study • Sound experience in the conception, implementation, and operation of Retrieval-Augmented-Generation systems • Knowledge in the development of agentic systems and AI workflows • Experience with the Model Context Protocol • Confident handling of Evaluation Driven Development as well as AI evaluation and observability platforms • Experience with modern vector databases such as Qdrant • Knowledge in handling embedding and re-ranking models • Understanding of Open-Weight Large Language Models and multimodal models • Experience with LLM runtimes as well as LLM proxies or gateways • Very good Python skills and confident handling of modern software engineering best practices • Strong communication skills and enjoyment of working with teams and customers • Business-fluent German and English skills in speaking and writing • Knowledge in Infrastructure as Code, cloud platforms such as Azure, and in the guardrailing of LLM applications is an advantage What awaits you • You design and develop powerful applications based on Large Language Models • You realize Retrieval-Augmented-Generation systems for different professional application cases • You develop solutions for structured information extraction from unstructured documents • You design and implement agentic systems and intelligent AI workflows • You use prompt and context engineering specifically to control LLM-based applications • You evaluate your solutions systematically according to the principle of Evaluation Driven Development • You ensure the quality and traceability of the systems using suitable evaluation and observability platforms • You accompany projects from the first idea through prototypes to productive use • You contribute your technical expertise already in the proposal phase and support the professional elaboration of offers • You work closely with software engineers and ML engineers as required • You continuously engage with new developments in the field of Generative AI • You receive versatile insights into different industries and demanding customer projects