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Senior AI Engineer

Airbus


Job Location:

Bucharest - Romania

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 9 September 2026 (10 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 7 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer (m/f)

Airbus Defence and Space is one of the three Divisions of the Airbus Group and Europes Number 1 defence and space company. It is the worlds second largest space company and one of the top 10 defence companies globally. Airbus Defence and Space develops and engineers cutting-edge and peerlessly reliable products in the field of defence and space. Its defence and space technologies enable governments and institutions to protect natural resources societies and individual freedom.

A Global leader in Security Projects

Airbus Defence and Space stands out amongst its competitors in providing innovative technology and reliable security services. Our aim is to unite three businesses - land and maritime border security critical national infrastructure protection and site security services - into one thereby fulfilling the requirements of the security market today and in the future with the latest technology and most attractive service packages.

group: Artificial Intelligence

Contract type/working time: Permanent / Fulltime

Working experience: 5 years in any A.I. related domain OR dedicated studies

6 years overall working experience

We are seeking a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

From a business perspective our projects are mostly security-related in areas like Intelligence / Data Processing / Data Analysis / Surveillance.

Areas of impact: Agentic AI / Generative AI / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Natural Language Processing


Key Responsibilities

  • Evaluate technical feasibility convert client requirements into resilient software architectures with granular features and formulate precise effort estimates.

  • Design multi-component secure microservice architectures and scalable REST/FastAPI endpoints for AI model serving.

  • Build autonomous agentic systems with complex custom tool usage and advanced multi-modal Generative AI pipelines.

  • Provide technical guidance for specific projects and mentor junior and mid-level engineers. Assist with recruitment interviews and help establish team best practices and coding standards.

  • Manage Kubernetes deployments construct automated CI/CD pipelines and oversee containerized application lifecycles.

  • Optimize hardware compute utilization including GPU/Memory sizing and CUDA optimization for efficient inference workloads.

  • Scout emerging software and AI technologies to continually refine the teams standard technology stack.

Requirements:

Specific knowledge:

Mandatory

  • At least 5 years of proven experience in software engineering and AI implementations.

  • Strong background in Artificial Intelligence principles Deep Learning frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch) and Python.

  • Expertise in object-oriented design SOLID principles and building secure JSON APIs.

  • Hands-on experience with GenAI frameworks (e.g. LangChain Google ADK vLLM) and vector databases like Qdrant or Milvus.

  • Deep knowledge of container orchestration (e.g. OpenShift Docker/Podman Helm) and in cloud-native infrastructure design.

  • Multi-agent orchestration familiarity with productionizing RAG-based applications and evaluation metrics for retrieval and generation. prompt engineering at scale

  • Solid understanding of Natural Language Processing concepts and their application in production

  • Experience with Computer Vision algorithms and frameworks

Nice to have

  • Reinforcement learning / Signal Processing / Data Science knowledge

  • Inference serving (TensorRT/Triton)

Competencies:

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset

  • Dedicated customer focus

  • Results-driven orientation

  • Collaborative team player thriving in multicultural environments

What We Offer

  • Exciting meaningful security and intelligence projects in a global tier-1 defence and space company.

  • Continuous education a motivating salary and a comprehensive package of benefits.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity as the foundation for the Companys success reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Defence and Space Romania SRL

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Digital

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background age gender disability sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is and always has been committed to equal opportunities for all. As such we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to.

At Airbus we support you to work connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.


Required Experience:

Senior IC