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We are hiring to our Aviva Services Excellence Centre! Take a look at our job description - maybe it suits you or one of your friends?\nWe are looking for a Staff Applied AI Engineer to join Aviva Services Excellence Centre (ASEC) and help design and deliver production AI agents and applied AI systems that create measurable value across Aviva’s customer-facing and internal operations.\nThis is a senior, hands-on engineering role for someone who can work independently across the applied AI stack-from context engineering and agent orchestration to evaluation, memory and multimodal interfaces. You will partner with product, business, architecture, platform, data, risk and compliance teams, while helping shape the reusable engineering patterns that define how AI is built at Aviva.\nWhat will you be doing?\nDesigning, building and operating production-grade AI agents, context pipelines and applied AI services.\nMaking architecture decisions for individual AI systems, including framework selection, orchestration patterns and memory strategy.\nDefining evaluation criteria before development begins and implementing robust evaluation frameworks covering quality, safety, fairness and compliance.\nTurning business needs into practical AI solutions in close partnership with product and business teams.\nMaking pragmatic build-versus-reuse decisions and contributing reusable components, standards and canonical engineering patterns.\nWriting clean, testable Python code and use AI-assisted engineering tools effectively.\nMaintaining production reliability, monitoring cloud and API resource usage, and supporting incident response for deployed AI systems.\nIdentifying and escalating architectural, data, compliance and responsible AI risks.\nProviding technical guidance to less experienced engineers and contributing actively to architecture and design reviews.\nWhat we’re looking for?\nMust have:\nStrong Python engineering skills and a track record of writing clean, testable, production-quality code.\nProven experience delivering large language model applications in production, such as AI agents or advanced context pipelines.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.\nA degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nA demonstrable portfolio of production AI or large language model engineering work.\nPreferably:\nDeep understanding of context engineering, including chunking, embedding selection, hybrid search, re-ranking, knowledge graphs and prompt construction.\nHands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as AWS Strands, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK or DSPy, or with implementing agent loops directly through APIs.\nPractical experience building or consuming Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.\nExperience implementing production evaluation frameworks using tools such as DeepEval, Arize Phoenix, Galileo or LangSmith.\nUnderstanding of session, long-term and semantic memory architectures, including frameworks such as Mem0.\nExperience with AWS and operating AI systems in production.\nGreat to have:\nExperience fine-tuning models using tools such as Unsloth, Axolotl or Hugging Face TRL.\nExperience with speech-to-text or text-to-speech models, such as ElevenLabs, Deepgram or Qwen, in end-to-end voice solutions.\nAWS certification, such as Solutions Architect Associate or higher.\nExperience in financial services, insurance or another regulated industry.\nWorking knowledge of data protection and customer-outcome requirements as they apply to AI systems.\nIn Aviva Services Excellence Centre, we provide:\nContract of employment \nPerformance Bonus \nPrivate medical care (ENEL-MED) \nCafeteria system of benefits (e.g. MultiSport card) \nAdditional parent privileges: - baby leave - 6 weeks leave for second parent - shortened working time after parental leave \nEmployer-funded group insurance \nEmployee Shares Plan \nExtra day off for birthday \nPaid time off to volunteer \nAdditional leave acquired over the years in the company (even 5 days more in a year) \nWellbeing Leave - additional two weeks paid leave after 10 years of service \nPsychological support consultations \nAccess to the e-learning platforms \nInternal employee referral program \nHybrid working model from Poland with a few days in Warsaw office per month\nAttractive office location in Warsaw - Gdański Business Center \nAdditional entitlements for people with disabilities - Work Without Barriers \nWork environment that promotes diversity - Diversity Charter \nDo you see yourself in Aviva Services Excellence Centre? Be sure to apply!\nAviva is for everyone!\nWe’ve been ranked the #1 Best Workplace in Poland for a second year in a row and a top choice for Millennials by Great Place to Work®!\nAs a signatory to the Diversity Charter, Aviva applies a policy of equal treatment and creates a work environment that is friendly to people with disabilities. We do not require from candidates the date of birth, marital status and attached photos to your CV. We encourage all individuals regardless of gender to apply.\nMost of our people are smart working - spending also time in our office - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.\nWe’re inclusive - we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.\nExcited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. 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