AXA

Lead AI Engineer – Agentic Offering (all genders)

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2 years ago
Winterthur, SwitzerlandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate robust LLM-based pipelines and agentic workflows for P&C underwriting.
  • Build APIs, orchestrate complex workflows, and integrate AI components into existing system landscapes.
  • Contribute to overall system architecture while balancing latency, cost, security, and maintainability.
  • Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architecture decisions, knowledge sharing, and best practices.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to turn insurance requirements into reliable AI systems.
  • Evaluate developments in agentic and generative AI and translate relevant advances into practical solutions.
  • Guide the team by setting technical direction, challenging assumptions, and contributing hands-on.
  • Help create measurable business value through AXA’s Agentic Offering.

Requirements

  • Proven experience with production AI systems, including Agentic AI, RAG, and Context Engineering.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and practical experience with Python and its ecosystem, such as LangChain.
  • Experience building APIs, orchestrating complex workflows, and integrating AI components.
  • Experience with GCP, MLOps, CI/CD, or container technologies is beneficial.
  • Ability to design and influence end-to-end architectures while considering latency, cost, security, and maintainability.
  • Understanding of insurance products and processes, or strong motivation to learn them; P&C, quoting, or insurance-process knowledge is an advantage.
  • Ability to act as a technical thought leader, identify trends, and turn them into concrete solutions.
  • Technical leadership skills, including setting direction, mentoring through example, and enabling team ideas.
  • Proactive, self-directed approach and ability to work effectively through ambiguity and iteration.
  • Fluent German and English.

Benefits

  • 80–100% position based in Winterthur with flexible Smart Working.
  • Annualized working hours, five weeks of vacation, additional vacation options, and a vacation gift of two weeks every five years.
  • Family-friendly meeting times, parental leave, childcare subsidies, family allowances, and leave for caregiving or challenging personal situations.
  • Attractive pension plan, optional savings plans, and discounts of up to 30% on insurance products.
  • AXA Shareplan, CHF 500 annually on the Swibeco benefits platform, discounted meals or Lunch-Card, and a CHF 200 annual Smart Working allowance.
  • Mobility benefits including half-fare reimbursement, Reka-Pay of up to CHF 1,000 per year with a 20% discount, fleet discounts, free EV charging, and AXA loan bicycles.
  • Health checkups, health weeks, exercise programs, massage services, quiet rooms, Employee Care, health resources, and prevention and mental-health events.
  • Three days of individual learning time, coaching, learning and development opportunities, training contributions, internal mobility support, talent programs, innovation projects, and two days for volunteering.
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About AXA

10,000+ employees

AXA is a global insurance and asset management group that sells life, health, property & casualty, and commercial specialty (AXA XL) coverage to individuals and businesses, plus investment products via AXA Investment Managers. It earns premiums and fees and invests float across diversified portfolios. Headquartered in Paris and publicly traded on Euronext Paris, AXA serves customers across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, with operations in more than 50 countries.

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