Forward-Deployed AI Engineer: Strategy to Production

GamblingCareers.com; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Social events & teambuilding

Career development plan

Global Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible working hours

Online training videos

Job summary

Sportradar, a sports data and technology company, is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer based in Vienna. You’ll operate like an internal consultant, owning technical strategy for AI use cases and delivering production agentic and LLM systems from discovery to production.

You’ll work with business stakeholders, navigate complexity, and mentor colleagues while shaping AI solutions across departments. This role offers hybrid onsite work with travel within Austria.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with business stakeholders.
• Strong communication with business and technical audiences.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently on ambiguous work.
• Ability to navigate organisational complexity to get things done.
• Strong problem-finding and analytical skills.
• Experience building and operating production systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents (prompting, tool use).
• Strong Python; experience with data pipelines and major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Meet with department leads to understand current work and identify problems.
• Break down situations into defined problems, scope, success criteria, and a delivery plan.
• Streamline and simplify business processes with AI.
• Navigate stakeholders to keep work moving.
• Own technical strategy and architecture for internal engagements.
• Design and deliver production agentic and LLM systems with retrieval, tooling, context and guardrails.
• Define and run evaluations to guide design and model choices.
• Mentor colleagues and share reusable patterns.

Skills

8+ years exp

Stakeholder communication

Independent worker

Organisation agility

Analytical skills

Production systems

LLMs & agents

Python

Cloud platforms

Tools

Python

RAG

Prompt design

Observability

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Sportradar, a sports data and technology company, is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed AI Engineer based in Vienna. You’ll operate like an internal consultant, owning technical strategy for AI use cases and delivering production agentic and LLM systems from discovery to production.

You’ll work with business stakeholders, navigate complexity, and mentor colleagues while shaping AI solutions across departments. This role offers hybrid onsite work with travel within Austria.