Founding AI Infrastructure Engineer

Zenline AI; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

Zenline AI is seeking a founding engineer to build and scale the AI infrastructure powering our agentic workflows in production. You will own data pipelines, backend systems, and observability while working directly with forward deployed engineers to turn customer workflows into robust platform capabilities.

You will operate in a Zurich-based, on-site role with strong ownership of end-to-end platform reliability and scalability, enabling retailers, brands and manufacturers to leverage AI agents

Qualifications

• 2–4 years building high-quality software systems.
• Experience with LLM-powered applications and agent workflows.
• Experience designing or improving data pipelines and ETL workflows.
• Strong platform engineering mindset with focus on reliability and observability.
• Entrepreneurial ownership and accountability for problem areas.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve our agentic workflow platform and reusable tools.
• Implement agent components and platform integrations for rapid deployment.
• Scale data pipelines and production data processing to support customers.
• Design efficient data infrastructure and maintain scalable backend systems.
• Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineers to translate customer workflows into durable platform capabilities.
• Harden backend, improve agent execution and developer ergonomics.

Skills

Backend development

Data pipelines

AI agent workflows

Observability

Platform engineering

Tools

Agent frameworks

Workflow engines

Distributed systems

Data warehouses

Job description

Zenline AI is seeking a founding engineer to build and scale the AI infrastructure powering our agentic workflows in production. You will own data pipelines, backend systems, and observability while working directly with forward deployed engineers to turn customer workflows into robust platform capabilities.

You will operate in a Zurich-based, on-site role with strong ownership of end-to-end platform reliability and scalability, enabling retailers, brands and manufacturers to leverage AI agents