AI Platform Engineer — Remote, Secure LLM Platform

Axpo; Baden; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote up to 50%

Pension plan 60%

Health coverage

Parental leave

Childcare support

Discounts

Public transport

Job summary

Axpo is hiring to build and operate a secure, governance-focused AI platform in Baden. You’ll own backend, platform and infra systems, delivering scalable services for LLM routing, model access and tool registration.

You’ll implement safe deployment paths, IAM controls and observability to support product teams building AI-enabled applications. Fluent English is required; German helps.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating production-grade backend/platform/infrastructure systems.
• Strong Python and API engineering skills, plus practical experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure and monitoring.
• Experience with identity and access management, secrets, network controls, secure software delivery and platform reliability.
• Genuine interest in AI models and their governance; you understand model failure and how to evaluate behavior and usage controls.
• You communicate engineering trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders with a product mindset.
• Fluent English; German is useful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate platform services for LLM routing, model access, MCP tool registration, identity and permissions, rate limits, team budgets, tracing and auditability.
• Build and improve the deployment path from repository to running, SSO-protected application, including secrets handling, safe defaults and administration capabilities for non-technical users.
• Engineer secure execution environments: isolated runtimes, code analysis, vulnerability checks, restricted egress and least-privilege execution.
• Create reusable APIs, SDKs, templates and documentation that make it easy for product teams to build and operate AI-assisted applications responsibly.
• Contribute to the assessment of open-weight models and European inference providers, and establish observability and evaluation patterns for AI systems - cost, latency, quality, reliability and policy compliance.
• Work closely with product, security, cloud and business teams: support platform users, resolve issues pragmatically, turn recurring feedback into improvements, and help shape the platform roadmap.

Skills

Python

API engineering

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Monitoring

Identity management

Secrets management

Product mindset

English fluency

Tools

Django

Azure

vLLM

MCP

A2A

Agent frameworks

Job description

Axpo is hiring to build and operate a secure, governance-focused AI platform in Baden. You’ll own backend, platform and infra systems, delivering scalable services for LLM routing, model access and tool registration.

You’ll implement safe deployment paths, IAM controls and observability to support product teams building AI-enabled applications. Fluent English is required; German helps.