Lead AI Engineer: Scalable AI Serving & GenAI

Baker Hughes; Firenze; On-site; EUR 44,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care options

Life insurance

Disability programs

Financial programs

Work-life balance policies

Job summary

Baker Hughes in Italy is seeking a Digital Technology Specialist - Data Science to lead AI model serving design, implementation, and integration, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost control across production systems.

The role requires a Master's in CS/AI, strong Python and containerized microservice experience, AWS API design, CI/CD, and mentoring. Italian and English fluency and EU permit are required; we offer competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Strong experience delivering production-grade software systems.
• Expertise in Python development.
• Experience with containerized, microservice-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of API design and versioning. Experience with AWS.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
• Fluent Italian and English
• EU permit

Responsibilities

• Leading the design, analysis, implementation, and integration of AI model serving solutions.
• Designing and standardizing serving architectures for AI and GenAI use cases.
• Defining and implementing safe rollout and rollback strategies. Driving performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Establishing and reviewing runtime resilience patterns. Providing technical leadership and coaching through design and code reviews.
• Developing and reviewing performance, load, resiliency, and cost test plans.
• Ensuring operational readiness for production launches. Participating in architecture, operational readiness, and security reviews.
• Collaborating with Platform, MLOps, Reliability, Security, Data, and Product teams.

Skills

Python development

Production-grade software

Mentoring

API design

Microservices

DevOps

Fluent Italian & English

Education

Master's degree in CS/AI

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Baker Hughes in Italy is seeking a Digital Technology Specialist - Data Science to lead AI model serving design, implementation, and integration, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost control across production systems.

The role requires a Master's in CS/AI, strong Python and containerized microservice experience, AWS API design, CI/CD, and mentoring. Italian and English fluency and EU permit are required; we offer competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.