Senior AI Lead — Production-Grade Automation

Applus+ Laboratories; Cerdanyola del Vallés; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Applus+ Laboratories is seeking an AI Lead to design, build, and industrialise AI services that digitalise and automate laboratory operations. This senior role covers discovery to production, with governance and responsible AI compliance.

You will translate lab priorities into AI solutions, develop retrieval-augmented generation and agent orchestration, and ensure secure, scalable delivery aligned with Group standards.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ML/AI with production ownership.
• Recent practical experience in generative AI and LLM-based applications.
• Strong Python and API development skills.
• Experience with ML pipelines and MLOps practices.
• English proficiency for international collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Translate Labs priorities into deliverable AI solutions with stakeholders.
• Design and build AI services and intelligent agents for Labs.
• Engineer agent workflows, tool integrations and orchestration with proper approvals.
• Build production-grade software and integrations with LIMS and document repositories.
• Evaluate models and AI techniques against quality, latency and cost requirements.
• Implement testing and domain validation with automated checks and datasets.
• Take solutions from prototype to production with CI/CD and MLOps.

Skills

ML/AI experience

Generative AI & LLM

Python programming

API development

CI/CD / MLOps

Data security & governance

English proficiency

Education

CS/Engineering/Math degree

AI master/PhD advantage

Tools

Azure

Containerization

ML frameworks

Vector search

APIs

Job description

Applus+ Laboratories is seeking an AI Lead to design, build, and industrialise AI services that digitalise and automate laboratory operations. This senior role covers discovery to production, with governance and responsible AI compliance.

You will translate lab priorities into AI solutions, develop retrieval-augmented generation and agent orchestration, and ensure secure, scalable delivery aligned with Group standards.