Principal Agentic AI Engineer
HERE Technologies1 day ago
Kraków, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and system design of scalable platform capabilities that expose location intelligence to AI agents.
- Build and integrate systems that convert natural-language location intent into deterministic, decision-grade results.
- Optimize agentic systems for latency, cost, reliability, and constrained or edge environments such as automotive.
- Design evaluation strategies, benchmarking, and reliability patterns to validate correctness and performance.
- Lead technical reviews and decisions, retire architectural risk, mentor engineers, and communicate trade-offs across teams and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a senior or principal engineer delivering production-grade agentic systems end to end, from design through rollout and operations.
- Experience with agentic-system evaluation, reliability, and safety patterns.
- Strong Rust and Python skills, especially Rust, with experience across machine-learning frameworks.
- Strong foundations in system design, distributed systems, API design, observability, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with prompting, orchestration, tool and function calling, and structured interfaces that enable reliable LLM actions.
- Ability to lead through influence, align stakeholders, communicate trade-offs, and make high-quality technical decisions.
- Mandatory hands-on use of AI tools in day-to-day engineering.
- Preferred experience with cost-aware LLM serving, caching, latency optimization, constrained or edge deployments, location services, navigation, geospatial data, and model adaptation techniques such as LoRA or QLoRA.
- Open-source contributions, publications, patents, or recognized technical leadership in AI/ML are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus bonus.
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid/remote working environment.
- Medical coverage for the employee and family, including private medical care and dental coverage.
- Eligibility for the Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland, or KUP.
- Option to work on a B2B contract; benefits, bonus, and KUP do not apply under this arrangement.
- Additional listed benefits include life insurance, meal allowance, vision reimbursement, remote work allowance where applicable, MyBenefit and Multisport programs, wellbeing initiatives, paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave under the Polish Labor Code.
- Employment is subject to successful pre-employment screening, including employment, education, and criminal verification where applicable.
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About HERE Technologies
HERE Technologies builds a location data and mapping platform used by automakers, logistics providers, and enterprises to power navigation, routing, and geospatial analytics. It sells map data, APIs/SDKs, and platform services for fleet, mobility, and supply-chain applications. The company traces its roots to Navteq (founded 1985) and Nokia Maps, and is privately held with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands.