Job Description
We are seeking new colleagues to drive the design and delivery of advanced AI solutions across our Central AI Organization (APEX CAIO). This is an individual contributor role focused on strong technical execution collaboration and handson development of enterprisegrade AI products.
Our AI Engineering team is responsible for developing central products and services being reused across entire enterprise while shaping analytic and AI capabilities across the company. You will work alongside AI engineers data scientists product managers and domain experts to build reliable scalable AI systems and help elevate the organizations AI literacy and adoption.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving technical problems learning new AI technologies and contributing to crossfunctional projects without direct peoplemanagement responsibilities.
What Will You Do
Technical Impact & Execution:
Implement and improve AI systems including generative AI and RAGbased components
Own welldefined development tasks within larger AI workstreams
Write highquality maintainable code and follow engineering best practices
Integrate language models vector databases retrieval components and evaluation tools under guidance from senior engineers
Contribute to model optimization for performance reliability and responsible AI use
Participate in experimentation and iteration of RAG pipelines prompt strategies and modeldriven workflows
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Work with senior engineers data scientists platform teams and SMEs to understand requirements and implement AI solutions
Communicate technical progress risks and trade-offs clearly within the team
Support adoption of AI products by collaborating with business and technical stakeholders
Thought Leadership & Strategy Contribution:
Contribute to improving engineering maturity by sharing learnings and good practices
Provide input into development of AI engineering patterns and operational guidelines
Stay informed about emerging AI technologies and bring forward relevant ideas
Help promote good observability MLOps and lifecycle management practices across AI systems
Ways of Working:
Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and planning activities
Provide input into technical prioritization and sprint planning
Maintain strong standards of documentation testing and monitoring for AI components
Qualifications Skills & Experience Required
Education & Experience:
Bachelors or Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Computer Science or a quantitative discipline
relevant experience in software/AI engineering
Experience contributing to production-grade AI or ML systems
Technical Expertise:
Solid Python skills and experience building AI/ML pipelines
Experience implementing AI solutions using cloud services data pipelines databases APIs and modern engineering tooling
Hands-on exposure to RAG systems LLMs vector databases prompt engineering or generative AI applications
Understanding of ML fundamentals (deep learning optimization evaluation monitoring)
Experience with CI/CD testing practices or MLOps concepts
Ability to build and integrate RESTful APIs for AI-driven services
Nice to Have
Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
Work experience in Agile environments
Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools
Familiarity with prompt optimization or evaluation frameworks for generative AI
What We Offer
Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
Pension and health insurance contributions
Internal reward system plus referral program
5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution
Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and other discount programs
Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers
Competitive salary incentive pay and many more
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AI Prompting Analytical Thinking Artificial Intelligence (AI) CI/CD Communication Model Fine-Tuning Prompt Design Prompt Engineering Prompt Optimization Python (Programming Language) RESTful APIs Retrieval-Augmented GenerationPreferred Skills:
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Employee Status:
RegularRelocation:
No relocationVISA Sponsorship:
YesTravel Requirements:
10%Flexible Work Arrangements:
HybridShift:
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