Production AI Engineer: Real-World AI in Life Sciences

ekona.ai; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ekona is seeking experienced software engineers to build production-grade AI systems for clients in life sciences, supply chain, and finance. You will work on AI agents, governance platforms, and cloud deployments directly with clients to deliver working software in short cycles.

We value curiosity, hands-on problem solving, and the ability to translate client pain points into robust technical solutions. Expect an on-site, fast-paced environment with direct impact and Swiss reliability.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional software engineering experience.
• Comfort with cloud-native development: containers, CI/CD, major cloud platform.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs and agent frameworks or quick domain learning.

Responsibilities

• Understand client problems and map the issue to workable software.
• Prototype quickly and turn prototypes into robust production systems.
• Design and deploy multi-agent workflows and AI-powered applications.
• Own architecture through testing, deployment, and observability in cloud environments.
• Influence technical roadmap and contribute to internal tooling.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud-native

LLMs & agents

Stakeholder communication

Shipping focus

English proficiency

Tools

Python

FastAPI

TypeScript

Next.js

React

Postgres

Job description

ekona is seeking experienced software engineers to build production-grade AI systems for clients in life sciences, supply chain, and finance. You will work on AI agents, governance platforms, and cloud deployments directly with clients to deliver working software in short cycles.

We value curiosity, hands-on problem solving, and the ability to translate client pain points into robust technical solutions. Expect an on-site, fast-paced environment with direct impact and Swiss reliability.