Head of AI Engineering: Drive Manufacturing Automation

Oroox AG; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Oroox AG in Kraków is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to assume technical ownership of our AI transformation. You will define the architecture, build the first applications and guide our engineering teams as we expand.

This hands‑on role combines architectural responsibility with leadership. You will collaborate with company leadership, development teams and manufacturing specialists to turn business needs into reliable software and scalable AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning production systems and architectural decisions.
• Experience building and deploying LLM applications in real business workflows.
• Strong Python backend development.
• Experience with APIs, databases, testing, CI/CD and cloud infra.
• Experience with retrieval, embeddings, tool calling and evaluating model outputs.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management and secure data handling.
• Judgment to determine AI value vs rules and business needs.
• Professional English and collaboration across international teams.

Responsibilities

• Design a secure, reusable AI architecture for internal applications and customer‑facing product features.
• Select and evaluate language models, deployment options and development tools against quality, privacy, performance and cost requirements.
• Build applications using retrieval‑augmented generation, structured outputs, tool calling and controlled agent workflows.
• Establish secure access to internal knowledge and systems, respecting user permissions and data boundaries.
• Introduce AI‑assisted software development with clear standards for human review, code ownership and architectural control.
• Develop product capabilities such as an Engineering Advisor, explanations of quotation and manufacturability results, and assistance with process configuration.
• Connect AI applications to existing geometry, pricing and manufacturing services.
• Establish evaluation datasets, monitoring and release criteria.
• Mentor engineers and document architectural decisions.

Skills

System ownership

LLM applications

Python backend

APIs & CI/CD

Authentication & security

English communication

Tools

Azure

Job description

Oroox AG in Kraków is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to assume technical ownership of our AI transformation. You will define the architecture, build the first applications and guide our engineering teams as we expand.

This hands‑on role combines architectural responsibility with leadership. You will collaborate with company leadership, development teams and manufacturing specialists to turn business needs into reliable software and scalable AI solutions.