Nexthink

Senior AI Engineer

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23 days ago
Lausanne, SwitzerlandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, operate, and architect production-grade AI/ML systems, including LLM-powered applications, NLP models, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent systems.
  • Make architectural decisions covering model selection, training strategies, fine-tuning, retrieval, orchestration, infrastructure, inference, latency, and cost optimization.
  • Define online and offline evaluation frameworks, success metrics, automated evaluation pipelines, dashboards, monitoring, and production observability.
  • Implement reproducible ML pipelines and manage deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle operations for models and AI artifacts.
  • Optimize AI systems for scalability, performance, throughput, reliability, and cost using cloud and orchestration platforms.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, software engineers, and data scientists to turn product requirements into incremental engineering plans.
  • Propose new AI capabilities based on user insights and technology developments.
  • Mentor junior AI engineers and establish engineering standards and AI best practices.
  • Communicate complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping and operating cloud services in production.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered production applications or ML/NLP applications.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and AI frameworks, with strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals, optimization, and model evaluation.
  • Experience with NLP systems such as embeddings, semantic search, retrieval systems, and text classification.
  • Experience integrating and operating LLMs, including prompting, evaluation, observability, RAG, and agentic workflows.
  • Hands-on MLOps experience with reproducible pipelines, experiment tracking, automated evaluation, and model or prompt delivery workflows.
  • Knowledge of reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent AI architectures.
  • Experience inspecting logs, designing metrics, and identifying production regressions.
  • Proven AWS and cloud-based AI deployment experience.
  • Strong communication skills in English and excellent problem-solving abilities in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
  • Preferred qualifications include scalable AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure experience, model optimization for latency, throughput, and cost, large language model fine-tuning, multi-agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise or B2B AI systems experience.

Benefits

  • Permanent contract with a competitive compensation package.
  • Hybrid work model balancing office and remote work, with a structured onboarding approach for new hires.
  • Flexible hours and unlimited paid time off in addition to 25 days of holidays.
  • Three company-paid volunteer days.
  • Access to a fitness centre inside the building.
  • Reimbursement of the half-fare public transport travel card.
  • Reimbursement of up to 50% of French class costs.
  • Fresh fruit, cookies, and soft drinks.
  • Regular company and team events, including volunteer days, talks, team-building activities, and office meetups.
  • Referral bonuses after successful hires complete three months of continuous employment.
  • Relocation package for employees moving from another country.
  • Some benefits may not apply to temporary, contract, or internship roles.
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