Senior AI Engineer – LLMs & Agentic Systems - Freelance

Shakers; Roma; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading AI consultancy in Italy is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and build production-grade AI solutions. In this hands-on role, you will work with agentic AI systems and LLMs alongside a collaborative team of engineers. This position offers a hybrid working model, where the initial onboarding is on-site in Rome, Milan, or Naples, moving toward remote afterward. Ideal candidates should possess strong skills in Python and experience in AI consulting or tech environments.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in AI engineering.
• Strong technical skills and autonomy.
• Comfortable taking ownership of complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI systems.
• Build RAG pipelines in production.
• Develop APIs and services in Python.
• Work with LLMs in real products.
• Mentor and collaborate with other engineers.

Skills

AI / tech consulting experience

Cloud architectures

MLOps / LLMOps

Experience with distributed systems

Experience with microservices

Strong Python skills

Tools

Azure OpenAI

OpenAI

Python

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join a high-impact AI consultancy working on advanced, real-world projects around LLMs and multi-agent systems.

This is a very hands-on role, focused on designing and building production-grade AI solutions, not demos or PoCs.

What you’ll work on:

• Designing and implementing agentic AI systems (planners, tool use, memory, orchestration)
• Building RAG pipelines in production (vector DBs, chunking strategies, retrieval & ranking)
• Developing APIs and services in Python
• Working with LLMs (OpenAI / Azure OpenAI / Anthropic / open-source) in real products
• Collaborating with other engineers and mentoring on architecture & best practices

Setup:

• Freelance collaboration with long-term perspective
• Hybrid model: initial onboarding on-site, then gradually moving towards remote
• Possible locations: Rome / Milan / Naples

Nice to have:

• Experience in AI / tech consulting environments
• Cloud architectures (especially Azure)
• MLOps / LLMOps
• Distributed systems & microservices

We’re looking for someone senior, autonomous, technically strong, and comfortable taking ownership of complex systems.