Senior AI Engineer — Production-Grade LLM Features

South Pole; Milano; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

South Pole is seeking an AI Developer to design, build, and ship production-grade AI features: LLM-powered workflows, retrieval pipelines, and agentic tooling that turn large, environmental and carbon-market data into reliable answers.

This is a hands-on medior-to-senior role. You will turn vague requirements into well-tested features, ensure trustworthy AI, and optimize for cost and performance in production.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building production-grade AI features.
• Proficient in Python and backend cloud services.
• Experience designing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Ability to translate business problems into technical AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship LLM-powered features end to end (RAG, structured extraction, summarisation).
• Build robust data and inference pipelines to connect AI layer with back-end systems.
• Implement evaluation, monitoring, and guardrails for safe, reliable AI.

Skills

Python programming

LLM integration

Data pipelines

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

pgvector

Job description

South Pole is seeking an AI Developer to design, build, and ship production-grade AI features: LLM-powered workflows, retrieval pipelines, and agentic tooling that turn large, environmental and carbon-market data into reliable answers.

This is a hands-on medior-to-senior role. You will turn vague requirements into well-tested features, ensure trustworthy AI, and optimize for cost and performance in production.