BASF SE

AI Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

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2 hours ago
Madrid, SpainMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Build reusable AI platform components, including retrieval/context engines, guardrail and evaluation libraries, MCP/tool layers, templates, SDKs, and versioned APIs.
  • Develop grounded assistants, copilots, and wizards for BASF’s portal, IDE, and Teams through shared APIs.
  • Expose read-first, RBAC- and tenant-aware platform capabilities for human and agent clients.
  • Create evaluation harnesses, golden tests, retrieval-quality metrics, and CI regression testing for LLM and RAG features.
  • Improve prompt and version management, model adaptation, CI/CD, and the path from experimentation to production.
  • Operate multi-tenant AI services with observability, distributed tracing, per-product cost tracking, FinOps visibility, and governance.
  • Apply deterministic pipelines, structured outputs, human-in-the-loop controls, and gated agentic workflows where appropriate.
  • Support security, safety, auditability, RBAC, tenant isolation, OWASP LLM Top 10 defenses, EU AI Act compliance, and data-residency requirements.

Requirements

  • BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or a related field.
  • At least 4 years of software engineering or platform development experience, with recent Generative AI and/or agentic systems experience.
  • Strong Python skills and hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications.
  • Practical familiarity with RAG, agentic patterns, context engineering, and deciding when autonomous agents are inappropriate.
  • Experience designing evaluation harnesses, golden tests, retrieval-quality metrics, grounding controls, and hallucination controls for LLM/RAG systems.
  • Backend and API development experience, preferably with FastAPI, Pydantic, and asynchronous Python services.
  • Experience building reusable self-service platform components, SDKs, templates, golden paths, and production multi-tenant services.
  • Working knowledge across frontend, backend, infrastructure, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes/AKS, and Terraform/HCL.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, vector stores such as Azure AI Search, Git, GitHub Actions, monitoring, observability, authentication, authorization, and RBAC.
  • Familiarity with OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks, and the MCP standard.
  • Preferred qualifications include Databricks/Unity Catalog, TypeScript, Grafana, MLflow, data pipelines, FinOps, RabbitMQ, Azure Event Grid, workflow engines, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and EnvoyProxy experience.
  • Familiarity with A2A, spec-driven agentic development, AGENTS.md, skill conventions, and the OWASP LLM Top 10 is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule and home-office options.
  • Learning and development opportunities.
  • 25 holiday days per year plus 5 additional readjustment days.
  • Collaborative, trustful, innovative, and international work environment.
  • Participation in global projects.
  • Relocation assistance to Madrid.
  • Secure work environment with emphasis on health, safety, and wellbeing.

Tech Stack

AzureDatabricksDockerFastAPIGitGitHub ActionsGrafanaKubernetesMLflowPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQTerraformTypeScript
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