Machine Learning & AI Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 2, 2026.
Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.
General Information
We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer to design, build, and operate production-ready, enterprise-grade AI solutions with measurable business impact.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role with a strong focus on LLM-based applications, agentic AI workflows, and scalable AI platforms. You will combine AI engineering expertise with strong software engineering and cloud-native practices to deliver secure, reliable, observable, and compliant AI products.
As a player-coach, you will provide technical direction and guide a small cross-functional AI team while actively contributing to architecture, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement end-to-end AI systems, including data pipelines, backend services, frontend interfaces, and AI orchestration components.
- Develop and operate LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows, and agentic AI solutions.
- Build and maintain AI platform and harness components, including tool integrations, context management, guardrails, and evaluation of pipelines.
- Lead and guide a small cross-functional AI development team, providing technical clarity, direction, and hands-on support.
- Establish feedback loops and measurable evaluation frameworks to improve AI quality, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Ensure AI solutions are production-ready, scalable, observable, secure, and aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
- Apply post-training and fine-tuning techniques to improve model performance for relevant use cases.
- Deliver AI functionality iteratively, with clear business outcomes and stakeholder value.
- Collaborate with R&D, product management, quality, cybersecurity, sales, support, services, Global IT, and external technology partners.
- Contribute technical expertise and forward-looking know-how to support the division’s AI strategy.
- The opportunity to build enterprise-grade AI products that address real industrial and business challenges.
- Responsibility for technical direction and the development of a small, cross-functional AI team.
Your Qualifications
- University degree in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a comparable field.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating AI- or LLM-based applications in production environments.
- Strong knowledge and track record of AI engineering skills (e.g. Python, Pytorch, Transformers, post-training, fine-tuning of LLMs, RAG frameworks, agent architectures)
- Experience designing reliable, secure, and scalable enterprise applications.
- Experience leading small teams or technical initiatives in a hands-on, player-coach capacity.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
- Experience collaborating effectively in international and cross-functional teams.
Our Offering
- Onboarding & Integration: we help you settle in quickly through our onboarding program and a team that supports you;
- Health & Life Insurance: we provide private health plans and life insurance, so you can have peace of mind;
- Discounts: enjoy discounts from our partners on activities, trainings, goods etc.;
- Bookster Subscription: are you a passionate reader? Then you can borrow your favorite books from the Bookster Library;
- Professional Development: with our variety of projects and teams, you'll be able to learn new skills, develop and shape the career path that fits you best;
- Bonuses: performance bonuses reward your achievements, and through referral bonuses we thank you for helping our team grow;
- Gift for Special Occasions: celebrate Easter, 8th of March or the Winter Holiday;
- Vacation Days: we truly believe in long-term partnerships, and we’re committed to supporting your well-being with a generous vacation policy from the start of your journey with us;
- Meal Tickets: we’re happy to offer meal tickets as part of your everyday benefits, helping make your lunch breaks more enjoyable;
- Flexibility: you can balance your work and personal life with arrangements tailored to your job and responsibilities.
As a global company with employees around the world, it is important to us that we treat each other with respect and value all ideas and perspectives. By appreciating our differences, we inspire creativity and drive innovation. In this way, we contribute to sustainable value creation for our stakeholders and society as a whole. Together, we advance how the world moves.
Exciting assignments and outstanding development opportunities await you because we impact the future with innovation. We look forward to your application.
Your Contact
Schaeffler Romania S.R.L.
Lorena-Larisa Radita
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