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Would you like to develop innovative technology with superb colleagues who are top experts in their fields and work at the interface of research and industry? VTT might be just the place for you. \n\n VTT is one of the leading applied research organisations in Europe. What unites us are curiosity, a passion for learning, and a purpose: to solve the biggest challenges of our time and turn them into sustainable growth and well-being. Our cross-disciplinary community of over 2000 brilliant minds from 55+ different nationalities focuses on creating impact through science-based innovation. Get to know us further by exploring VTT's tech & infra . \n\nJoin us as Lead AI Engineer\n\nWe are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join our Research Digital Enablers team. You will lead the development of our AI platform and engineering capabilities. In this role, you will work at the intersection of AI, platform engineering, and research. Your mission is to create technical foundations that allow researchers to develop, deploy, and utilise advanced AI solutions as part of their daily work. \n\nYou will collaborate closely with researchers, data specialists, platform engineers, and architects to understand evolving needs and transform them into scalable platform capabilities. From AI model deployment and inference services to agentic AI, model governance, and self-service AI environments, you will play a key role in enabling the next generation of research and innovation. \n\nYour responsibilities as Lead AI Engineer:Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap and lifecycle of VTT's shared AI platform. \n\nLead the hands-on design and implementation of scalable capabilities for AI development, model deployment and inference across cloud, on-premises and GPU environments. \n\nProvide governed access to commercial, open-source and private models through AI gateways, shared APIs and reusable platform services. \n\nEstablish platform capabilities and engineering practices for experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, observability, security and lifecycle management. \n\nWork continuously with researchers and research leaders to understand scientific workflows and translate diverse use cases into prioritised, reusable platform capabilities. \n\nFacilitate technical discovery, co-design and onboarding, and help research teams select suitable models, tools and deployment patterns. \n\nIntegrate the AI platform with data platforms, identity and access management, research infrastructures, cloud services and internal developer platforms. \n\nDefine service levels, capacity needs, operational ownership and platform metrics, and use stakeholder feedback and usage data to drive continuous improvement. \n\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies and lead proofs of concept and transitions from experimentation to supported services. \n\nMentor engineers and researchers and strengthen VTT's internal AI engineering community. \n\nWho we are looking for:You have strong hands-on experience in AI platform engineering, machine learning, cloud-native platform engineering, or software architecture. \n\nYou have built or operated production-grade platforms and understand platform ownership, service lifecycle management and researcher or developer experience. \n\nYou have strong experience with Kubernetes, containers, GPU workloads, cloud or on-premises infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code. \n\nYou understand modern model serving and inference. \n\nYou are familiar with AI gateways such as LiteLLM. \n\nYou understand MLOps and LLMOps methods and tools for experiment tracking, model registries, pipelines, evaluation, observability, tracing and governance. \n\nYou have practical knowledge of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, AI agents, model adaptation and evaluation, together with strong Python and API development skills. \n\nYou can turn varied research requirements into a coherent platform roadmap, explain technical trade-offs and collaborate fluently in English with researchers, engineers, architects, security specialists and leadership stakeholders. \n\nAs a person, we hope that you are:\n\nA curious and pragmatic technical leader who combines long-term platform thinking with hands-on engineering. You listen carefully to researchers, ask the right questions and identify the shared capability behind different scientific use cases. You take ownership, communicate technical choices clearly and enjoy aligning multidisciplinary stakeholders around solutions that are secure, usable and maintainable. \n\nWith VTT, you'll enjoy Visionary work in technology. You will shape a strategic AI platform that enables VTT's researchers to move from experimentation to scalable use and create real, positive impact through science and innovation. \n\nFascinating projects and an excellent research environment. You will collaborate with experts across scientific domains, learn from demanding research use cases and turn common needs into reusable capabilities. \n\nGreat career opportunities and superb colleagues. You will have the opportunity to influence architecture, tools and ways of working and to grow an internal community around modern AI engineering. \n\nSupport for your well-being. We nurture strong team spirit and leadership and offer versatile services that support work-life balance, including occupational health care, exercise and culture benefits, hobby clubs and six weeks of paid holiday annually after one year of employment. \n\nApply now and join our community of brilliant minds!\n\nPlease send your CV and application with your salary request through our recruitment system as soon as possible, but no later than 17 of November 2026. We will process applications as they come in and may fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate. A security clearance procedure may be conducted during the recruitment process. \n\nInterested and want to hear more? 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