Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Duferco; Milano; In loco; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Remote-first setup

Hybrid options where applicable

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Access to modern AI tools

Descrizione del lavoro

Duferco is expanding its Corporate Innovation Team to build AI-enabled products, agents, automation systems, and backend infrastructure within a fast-moving, startup-style environment backed by a global group.

You will work on diverse domains, own internal projects, and ship reliable AI solutions, growing quickly with experienced teammates and modern AI tools.

Competenze

• Experience building or contributing to LLM-powered apps or automation tools.
• Proficient with APIs, databases, backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Focus on product thinking, data, evaluation, reliability, and integration.
• Ability to translate messy business problems into practical technical solutions.
• Comfort with trade-offs between speed, quality, cost, latency, and maintainability.
• Curiosity about model behavior in real workflows.
• Experience with AI coding tools daily.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new AI tech.

Mansioni

• Design and build AI-powered systems that make the organization faster and smarter.
• Develop LLM-powered applications, agents, and automation workflows.
• Create retrieval-augmented generation systems and knowledge tools.
• Build evaluation, monitoring, and feedback loops for AI systems in production.
• Develop backend services and APIs connecting AI to workflows.
• Integrate across internal and third-party systems.
• Build data pipelines and tooling to support experimentation and deployment.
• Develop engineering tooling to improve AI-enabled products.

Conoscenze

LLM-powered apps

APIs

Databases

Backend services

Cloud infrastructure

Product thinking

Evaluation

Reliability

Integration

Domain understanding

Strumenti

FastAPI

Redshift

Postgres

AWS

Vector databases

Embeddings

Descrizione del lavoro

We are expanding Duferco’s Corporate Innovation Team: a fast-moving engineering team operating in a startup-style environment, backed by the stability and scale of a global diversified group.

You will work on a wide variety of projects across domains such as energy, trading, logistics, steel, insurance, sports, and other sectors — not as an external consultant, but as part of the group itself, with the ownership and continuity of an internal product and engineering team.

You will build AI-enabled products, agents, automation systems, evaluation pipelines, and backend infrastructure that remove operational bottlenecks, improve decision-making, and create leverage across the business.

This is a great role for an engineer who is excited about applying modern AI systems to real business problems, cares about shipping reliable products, and wants to grow quickly alongside experienced teammates.

About the Team

We sit close to real business problems and have the freedom to prototype and ship quickly. AI is already part of our daily workflow, and we expect that role to keep expanding.

We care about building things well, shipping systems that create leverage, and working with people who make the team better.

We appreciate engineers who enjoy ownership, fast iteration, pragmatic problem-solving, and AI-assisted development.

What You’ll Do

Design and build AI-powered systems that make the organization faster and smarter:

• LLM-powered applications, agents, assistants, and automation workflows
• Retrieval-augmented generation systems, internal knowledge tools, and document intelligence pipelines
• Evaluation, monitoring, and feedback loops for AI systems in production
• Backend services and APIs that connect AI capabilities to real business workflows
• Integrations across internal and third-party systems, often where the hard part is understanding the domain, not the model
• Data pipelines and tooling that support experimentation, deployment, and continuous improvement
• Engineering tooling that improves how we build, test, and ship AI-enabled products

You will work with more experienced engineers and domain experts to understand business problems, design pragmatic AI solutions, and build, test, ship, evaluate, and improve systems over time.

You will not just experiment in notebooks. You will be encouraged to understand the domain, ask hard questions, suggest improvements, and take on increasing ownership of production systems.

What We Offer

• A role with real ownership, support, and room to grow
• Exposure to a broad variety of technical and business problems
• The opportunity to build practical AI systems used inside a diversified international group
• Modern AI-assisted engineering tools and time to explore new technologies and approaches
• A fast-moving, collaborative environment with talented and ambitious people
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Flexible working hours and a remote-first setup, with hybrid options where applicable.

You’re Probably a Fit If

• You have built or contributed to LLM-powered applications, agents, RAG systems, automation tools, or similar AI-enabled products
• You are comfortable working with APIs, databases, backend services, and modern cloud-based infrastructure
• You understand that building useful AI systems is not just about prompting models, but also about product thinking, data, evaluation, reliability, and integration
• You can take a messy business problem and turn it into a practical technical solutionYou make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, cost, latency, and maintainability, and can explain why
• You are curious about how models behave in real workflows and care about measuring whether the system actually works
• You use AI coding tools daily — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar — and have opinions about where they help and where they don’t
• You enjoy working close to the business and take the time to understand a process before modeling or automating it

Experience with LLM APIs, open-source models, vector databases, embeddings, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, MCP servers, data warehouses such as Redshift, Postgres, FastAPI, or AWS-based services is a strong plus.

You do not need experience with every technology we use. Strong engineering ability, adaptability, product judgment, and willingness to learn matter much more.

If this sounds like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.