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It covers the entire lifecycle from importing with smart importers customer requirements, collaborating on them, connecting them to the electronics design, verifying them and creating relevant compliance documents.\nShape the future: You'll be part of a close-knit team with ambitious goals, but you'll also have the freedom and power to define the best way to achieve them. Collaborate with your team to map out the features and technical path that will bring our product vision to life;\nGrow together, share knowledge: We foster a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. 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You’ll help design, develop, and deploy LLM-driven systems used by hardware product teams around the world, while learning how AI projects move from idea to production inside a product-led development team in the age of Agentic Hardware Engineering.\nA day in the life of our Senior AI Engineer\nDevelop agentic flows using off-the-shelf LLMs and applying modern harnessing methods (tool-calling, planning, skills, sub-agents, mcp servers, CLIs, etc.) to hardware design/requirement management use-cases.\nCollaborate with software engineers, product managers, and designers in an agile, sprint-based environment to ship features and improvements \nBuild evaluation pipelines, design metrics and gather data to measure and improve the performance of AI-driven systems.\nExtend test-suite, refining and running benchmarks on our AI systems.\nBenchmark models, prompts and approaches for speed, cost and accuracy and improve results methodically using techniques with highest impact (meta prompting, fine tuning, RAG, caching, prompt compression, distillation, etc.)\nParticipating in the full AI product lifecycle: from early-stage experimentation to deployment and continuous improvement.\n Essential skills:\nProfound knowledge of LLM engineering and how LLM-based features are built and evaluated in production-ready environments\nAdvanced Python development skills to implement such systems\nProduction Experience with:Agentic loops\nTool-calling\nAgent orchestration\nMCP servers\nEvaluation and benchmarking pipelines.\nCost and latency optimization (context compression/model cascading etc)\n\nAbility to plan experiments and execute tasks autonomously with an eye for detail\nQuick learner to understand and keep up with the constantly evolving AI landscape \nExperience in working in multi disciplinary teams to ship features to customers\nCuriosity for user journeys and real-world use cases to validate solutions\nNice to have:\nProduction experience with:Synthetic test data creation\nDistillation\nAgent Orchestration Debugging\nFinetuning models\n\nExperience with (hardware) engineering software\nExperience with developing end-to-end harnesses for agentic loops\nExperience with building high concurrency asynchronous services\nExperience with stateful agentic frameworks (like LangGraph)\n Private Health Insurance (Allianz) - Altium covers 100% of the health insurance cost for employees. 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We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.\nFrom startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.\nWe believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. 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