LLM Deployment Engineer

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

Job summary

Destinus seeks an LLM Deployment Engineer to drive AI-powered automation across our Swiss organization. You will deploy and scale LLMs to streamline business processes and support engineering R&D, operating at the intersection of ML, software infrastructure, and enterprise systems.

You’ll develop integration and automation solutions enabling teams to work more efficiently while maintaining strong security and governance standards across cloud and on-prem environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with LLM APIs, including open-weight and proprietary models.
• Familiarity with LLM applications, tools, RAG and routing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and modern software delivery.
• Understanding of security and privacy considerations in enterprise environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain open-weight LLMs on cloud and local clusters.
• Scale deployments to serve a large number of users within the organization.
• Stay up-to-date with new model releases to keep deployment state of the art.
• Connect LLMs to specific use cases, helping users automate their work.
• Analyze the effectiveness of models on automation tasks.
• Embed security and privacy in the automation pipeline.

Skills

Software engineering

LLM APIs

RAG & routing

CI/CD & IaC

Security & privacy

Collaboration

Job description

About the role

We are seeking an LLM Deployment Engineer to drive the adoption of AI-powered automation across the organization. In this role, you will deploy and scale LLMs to streamline business processes and assist engineering R&D.

You’ll work at the intersection of ML, software infrastructure engineering, and enterprise systems, by developing integration and automation solutions that enable teams across the organization to operate more efficiently.

What You´ll Do

• Deploy and maintain open-weights LLMs on cloud and local cluster.
• Scale deployments to serve a large number of users within the organization.
• Be up-to-date with new model releases, to keep our deployment state of the art.
• Connect LLMs to specific use cases, helping users across the organization to automate their work routine.
• Analyze the effectiveness of models on automation tasks.
• Embed security and privacy in the automation pipeline, to safeguard sensitive content.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Experience working with LLM APIs, both open-weight and proprietary
• Familiarity with LLM applications, including tools, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and routing
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and modern software delivery practices
• Understanding of security and privacy considerations in enterprise environments
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar interoperability standards
• Experience with AI governance, observability, or operational monitoring
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and high-performance computing environments (Kubernetes, SLURM).
• Experience in evaluating ML models.

Who You Are

You thrive in fast-paced environments where ambiguity is part of the challenge, and you can turn it into defined goals. You take ownership seriously and move things forward without waiting for perfect conditions. You know how to balance structure with flexibility without losing focus. Above all, you measure success by outcomes and take pride in getting things done.