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Working with LangGraph (or similar frameworks) and leading LLM providers, you'll translate complex business problems into scalable, production-ready solutions.\nA core part of this role is establishing evaluation practices, observability standards, and cost optimization strategies while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to team technical direction.\nYour role\nAs AI Engineer, your main responsibilities will involve:\nDesign & Own Workflows: Build end-to-end agentic workflows (e.g., LangGraph), balancing complexity, performance, and maintainability. \nProblem Solving: Translate ambiguous business needs into structured technical solutions and architectures. \nReusable Components: Develop production-grade agents, tools, and skills with clear interfaces, tests, and documentation. \nArchitecture Decisions: Select frameworks and design patterns based on use cases and constraints. \nModel Integration: Manage multi-LLM integrations, optimizing for latency, cost, and quality. \nEvaluation & Quality: Define metrics, datasets, and guardrails to ensure reliability and prevent regressions. \nData Architecture: Design schemas and validation layers for reliable, structured data flows. \nObservability & Support: Implement logging, monitoring, and incident response practices. \nAI-Driven Dev: Use AI tools to accelerate development while maintaining code quality. \nCross-functional Leadership: Align with product, data, and engineering teams to deliver solutions. \nMentorship: Support and guide junior engineers on best practices.\nYour Skills and Experience\nAs AI Engineer, your skills and experience will ideally include:\n2-4 years of professional software engineering, data science, or AI engineering experience\nAt least 2 years of hands-on experience building production generative AI systems\nStrong Python expertise with demonstrated software engineering fundamentals (testing, CI/CD, code review)\nProduction experience with LLM-based systems, including advanced prompting techniques, API integration, and workflow orchestration\nProven experience with LangGraph or similar agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or custom orchestration)\nSolid understanding of evaluation methodologies and quality metrics for LLM/agent systems\nExperience independently leading technical initiatives from design through production deployment\nTrack record of making architectural decisions and understanding their trade-offs\nNice to Have\nActive user of AI assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) with demonstrated productivity gains\nExperience with LLM observability platforms (Langfuse, LangSmith, Weights & Biases, Arize)\nProduction experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant) and RAG architectures\nDemonstrated experience optimizing LLM costs and implementing token management strategies\nStrong understanding of async Python patterns and concurrent request handling in production\nExperience deploying and operating AI systems on Azure (or AWS/GCP) with cloud-native architectures\nExperience designing evaluation frameworks and establishing quality benchmarks for AI systems\nFamiliarity with fine-tuning, prompt optimization, or model selection strategies\nGrowth & Development\nLead increasingly complex initiatives and own critical system components\nShape technical direction and contribute to team standards and best practices\nExpand influence across engineering, data science, and product organizations\nDevelop expertise in emerging agentic AI patterns and evaluation methodologies\nOpportunity to grow toward senior or staff engineer roles\nWe offer\nCompensation for roles at Zurich depends on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific role, skill set, level of experience, and subject to applicable law. 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