Senior AI Engineer — Generative AI & RAG Architect

FORFIRM CONSULTING SAGL; Lugano; Vor Ort; CHF 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

FORFIRM CONSULTING SAGL is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Lugano, Switzerland to design, build, and deploy Generative AI solutions. You will work on conversational AI, RAG architectures, and autonomous AI agents across the full AI lifecycle.

The role emphasizes data ingestion, semantic indexing, model orchestration, and production-grade deployment with cloud-native technologies. Strong Python and API experience are essential, along with LLM orchestration, vector databases, and observability

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience with Python and modern web development frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask for building RESTful APIs.
• Strong hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, including LangChain, LlamaIndex, or direct LLM API integrations.
• Deep understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and semantic search systems.
• Experience working with Vector Databases such as Qdrant, Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector.
• Solid knowledge of Prompt Engineering techniques and AI agent development through function calling and tool integration.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with enterprise cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience managing source control, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery processes using GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with LLM observability and monitoring platforms, particularly Langfuse, including prompt tracking, latency monitoring, token usage analysis, and user feedback collection.

Aufgaben

• Design and develop advanced conversational AI solutions leveraging LLMs and RAG architectures.
• Optimize information retrieval pipelines using embeddings, vector search technologies, and reranking models.
• Design and implement autonomous AI agents capable of utilizing external tools via MCP environments.
• Build data ingestion and semantic indexing pipelines for complex document types.
• Implement intelligent chunking and document processing to maximize retrieval.
• Containerize and deploy AI services with cloud-native tech for scalability.
• Monitor model performance, costs, latency, and output quality with LLMOps practices.
• Analyze prompts, traces, and user feedback to improve AI systems.

Kenntnisse

Python

LLM orchestration

RAG architectures

Prompt engineering

AI agent development

REST APIs

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

Qdrant

Milvus

Pinecone

Weaviate

pgvector

GitLab

Langfuse

Jobbeschreibung

FORFIRM CONSULTING SAGL is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Lugano, Switzerland to design, build, and deploy Generative AI solutions. You will work on conversational AI, RAG architectures, and autonomous AI agents across the full AI lifecycle.

The role emphasizes data ingestion, semantic indexing, model orchestration, and production-grade deployment with cloud-native technologies. Strong Python and API experience are essential, along with LLM orchestration, vector databases, and observability