AI Solutions Engineer - Frontline with Product Teams

IFS; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer, R&D AI Services, to embed with product teams and shape AI-powered solutions at enterprise scale. You will match AI services to business problems, build AI-first applications, and drive the development of new AI services when needed.

This senior role requires hands-on engineering across data pipelines, model serving, and MLOps, with strong communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on delivery of production systems.
• Strong Python, and willingness to work across languages and codebases.
• Cloud-native experience; Azure AKS, Blob Storage, Key Vault or similar.
• Experience integrating LLMs and AI services into production apps.
• Hands-on in agentic systems, retrieval/embedding tech and RAG designs.
• APIs, security, and enterprise integrations with robust observability.

Responsibilities

• Embed with product teams to understand business flows and identify AI opportunities.
• Lead technical discovery to separate bottlenecks from symptoms.
• Design and extend AI services to solve product problems; prototype and ship quickly.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, model training and serving, and MLOps tooling.
• Ensure monitoring, feedback loops and production-grade reliability.

Skills

Python

Azure

Kubernetes

LLM Integration

Agentic Systems

Retrieval & RAG

REST APIs

IaC

Data Pipelines

Distributed Systems

Tools

Docker

Terraform

ArgoCD

Git

Job description

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer, R&D AI Services, to embed with product teams and shape AI-powered solutions at enterprise scale. You will match AI services to business problems, build AI-first applications, and drive the development of new AI services when needed.

This senior role requires hands-on engineering across data pipelines, model serving, and MLOps, with strong communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.