Accesa

Senior Applied AI Research Engineer

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11 hours ago
Remote, RomaniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Explore emerging AI technologies, agents, and engineering patterns through hands-on experimentation and rapid prototyping.
  • Formulate hypotheses, structure experiments, evaluate results against defined criteria, and turn findings into engineering recommendations.
  • Define and continuously evolve the organization-wide AI software development lifecycle.
  • Assess AI technologies, model outputs, and industry trends while defining evaluation criteria and identifying failure modes.
  • Create documentation, reusable guidance, and recommendations for delivery teams and leadership.
  • Work across research, prototyping, engineering, architecture discussions, consulting, and organizational enablement.
  • Collaborate with the delivery-facing AI rollout function and incorporate recurring challenges from project adoption.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering and architecture fundamentals at Senior Engineer or Tech Lead level, including APIs, distributed systems, testing, delivery practices, and maintainability.
  • At least 6 years of production software delivery experience.
  • Hands-on experience with AI agents and agentic workflows.
  • Experience with LLM APIs and model integration.
  • Practical experience evaluating and testing AI systems.
  • Awareness of security, privacy, and responsible AI considerations.
  • Experience with CI/CD, software delivery practices, observability, and monitoring.
  • Strong R&D mindset, critical thinking, systems thinking, written and verbal communication, and pragmatic judgment.
  • Preferred experience with LLM-based application development, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, tool or function calling, MCP, API design and integration, data pipelines, data management, containers, and cloud-native development.
  • Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, .NET, or similar languages is preferred.

Benefits

  • Holistic wellbeing benefits covering social, physical, emotional, and work-life wellbeing.
  • Medical benefits, gym support, personalized fitness options, team events, and a Healthy Habits Club.
  • Flexible work-life arrangements in a hybrid environment.
  • Mental wellbeing support and opportunities for social connection and community engagement.
Accesa

About Accesa

1,001-5,000 employees

Accesa provides software engineering and IT consulting, building custom applications, modernizing systems, and delivering cloud, data/AI, cybersecurity, and managed services for enterprises in retail, manufacturing, and financial services. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, it operates in Europe with offices including Oradea. Its revenue model spans project-based delivery and long-term managed services, supporting end-to-end digital initiatives from discovery through implementation and operations.

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