Staff AI Engineer: Lead AI Platform (Switzerland)

AItoolnavio; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Architectural influence in decision‑m|

High autonomy Staff role

Access to proprietary dataset

Job summary

AItoolnavio, listed on behalf of a partner company in Switzerland, seeks a Staff AI Engineer to shape and deliver high-impact AI initiatives and production-ready solutions. You will provide technical leadership across engineering teams, influence major architectural decisions, and help define the future of the organization’s AI capabilities.

In this role you will strengthen the shared AI platform, establish robust evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and scalable infrastructure, while balancing

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering experience at Staff Engineer level, hands-on and able to lead complex initiatives.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade LLM applications or AI agents used by customers.
• Ability to influence architecture across teams and establish engineering standards.
• Proven experience building AI evaluation frameworks with automated testing, agent traces, human feedback, and monitoring.
• Understanding of AI agent architecture, tool design, and when deterministic logic is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and delivery of major AI initiatives, including AI-powered assistants and generative features.
• Contribute to production AI systems, improving architecture and workflows.
• Improve AI quality, reliability, and performance with measurable enhancements.
• Own major AI projects from planning through deployment and optimization.
• Shape architectural decisions across teams, focusing on AI architecture and shared infra.
• Establish scalable AI quality frameworks with automated evaluations and monitoring.
• Design reliable AI agents and tool integrations balancing deterministic and LLM capabilities.
• Drive broader engineering initiatives to improve development quality and velocity.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Operations, and engineering stakeholders.
• Mentor teams and promote architectural standards and best practices.

Skills

Staff engineer level

LLM apps

AI evaluation

Python Django

REST GraphQL

AI architecture

Tool orchestration

Security & latency

Production AI

Mentorship

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Redis

REST APIs

GraphQL

Asynchronous workers

Job description

AItoolnavio, listed on behalf of a partner company in Switzerland, seeks a Staff AI Engineer to shape and deliver high-impact AI initiatives and production-ready solutions. You will provide technical leadership across engineering teams, influence major architectural decisions, and help define the future of the organization’s AI capabilities.

In this role you will strengthen the shared AI platform, establish robust evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and scalable infrastructure, while balancing