Lead AI Platform Engineer - Cloud, GPUs & MLOps

VTT; Espoo; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational health care

Exercise benefits

Culture benefits

Hobby clubs

Six weeks of paid holiday after one"?"

Six weeks of paid holiday annually (12

Job summary

VTT is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to drive the development of a scalable AI platform. You will work at the intersection of AI, platform engineering and research, guiding researchers and engineers to deploy and operate advanced AI solutions.

You will lead architecture, governance, and cross-domain collaboration, shaping capability roadmaps and ensuring secure, scalable, and maintainable systems across cloud, on-premises and GPU environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI platform engineering and ML experience.
• Production-grade platforms with service lifecycle management.
• Kubernetes, containers, GPU workloads, CI/CD, GitOps, IaC.
• Familiar with AI gateways (e.g., LiteLLM) and MLOps methods.
• Strong Python and API development skills.
• Excellent English for collaboration with researchers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, architecture, roadmap and lifecycle of VTT's shared AI platform.
• Lead hands-on design and implementation of scalable AI development and deployment capabilities across cloud, on-premises and GPU environments.
• Provide governed access to models via AI gateways, shared APIs and reusable services.
• Establish practices for experimentation, deployment, monitoring, observability, security and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate scientific workflows into reusable platform capabilities.
• Coordinate technical discovery, co-design and onboarding for model/tool deployment patterns.
• Integrate the AI platform with data platforms, IAM, research infra and internal developer platforms.
• Define SLAs, capacity, ownership and metrics; drive continuous improvement using feedback.
• Evaluate new AI tech, lead PoCs and transitions to supported services.
• Mentor engineers and researchers, strengthening VTT's internal AI community.

Skills

AI platform engineering

Machine learning

Kubernetes

Containers

GPU workloads

CI/CD

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Python

API development

LLMOps

English communication

Tools

LiteLLM

Job description

VTT is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to drive the development of a scalable AI platform. You will work at the intersection of AI, platform engineering and research, guiding researchers and engineers to deploy and operate advanced AI solutions.

You will lead architecture, governance, and cross-domain collaboration, shaping capability roadmaps and ensuring secure, scalable, and maintainable systems across cloud, on-premises and GPU environments.