
Lead AI Engineer - Digital Service Solutions
Hitachi, Ltd.2 months ago
Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own the AI R&D capability strategy and architecture for digital service solutions.
- Establish architectural principles and standards for cloud-native, industrial-scale, long-lifecycle AI services.
- Translate service and domain needs into AI models, use cases, and solution designs embedded in operational workflows.
- Design and govern AI model lifecycles covering problem framing, validation, deployment, monitoring, and controlled evolution.
- Lead the design and governance of agentic AI workflows combining reasoning, orchestration, and automation.
- Collaborate with data platform, digital platform, and IT teams on scalable data pipelines, feature management, and analytics services.
- Establish controls for AI quality, explainability, bias mitigation, ethical use, and regulatory alignment.
- Guide architecture decisions and capability development as a technical authority across Service R&D.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, data science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, or governing applied AI/ML solutions in industrial, IoT, or service-oriented environments.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end AI pipelines, including data preparation, model development, deployment, and monitoring.
- Experience integrating AI into enterprise-scale digital solutions using cloud platforms, microservices, and MLOps practices.
- Ability to translate AI techniques into interpretable and operationally relevant outcomes.
- Experience working cross-functionally across R&D, engineering, service, and digital organizations.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence architecture and solution decisions.
- Experience with LLM-based systems, agentic AI, or advanced analytics platforms is advantageous.
- Familiarity with AI governance, ethics, compliance, and regulated industrial environments is beneficial.
Benefits
- Private medical care and life insurance.
- Fitness and wellness programs, a benefits platform with discounts and perks, and Employee Capital Plans (PPK).
- Equipment for working from home or allowances for setting up a home workplace.
- Spectacles and contact lenses allowance, company events, team-building activities, and psychological support.
- Free parking is available.
- Full-time, on-site role in Krakow, Poland; additional benefits may depend on the role, grade, and business requirements.