Senior AI Engineer: AI Architecture, Pipelines & NLP

firstbird GmbH Radancy; Wien; Remote; EUR 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Radancy is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our AI Product & Engineering Team. You will help design AI architectures, create data pipelines, and build models for classification and inference, collaborating with data scientists across a remote, global team.

You should have 3+ years as an AI Engineer and 5+ years in software engineering, with Apache Kafka, strongly typed backend languages, and AWS cloud experience. NLP/LLM knowledge is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as an AI Engineer or equivalent.
• 5+ years in Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with distributed event streaming platforms (Apache Kafka).
• Backend services in strongly typed languages (Rust, Scala, Go).
• Knowledge of AI/ML fundamentals and model optimization techniques.
• Knowledge of NLP, LLMs, RAG, and embedding models.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with highly concurrent backend systems with durable state.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the foundations of our AI Architecture.
• Define data collection and modeling frameworks.
• Implement, maintain and improve classification pipelines and inference for AI Models.
• Improve application performance using metrics and KPIs.
• Design scalable, automated data pipelines using Apache Kafka.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists on classification problems.

Skills

NLP/LLM fundamentals

AI fundamentals

Model optimization techniques

Tools

Apache Kafka

Rust

Scala

Go

AWS

Neo4j/AWS Neptune

Job description

Radancy is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our AI Product & Engineering Team. You will help design AI architectures, create data pipelines, and build models for classification and inference, collaborating with data scientists across a remote, global team.

You should have 3+ years as an AI Engineer and 5+ years in software engineering, with Apache Kafka, strongly typed backend languages, and AWS cloud experience. NLP/LLM knowledge is essential for this role.