Hybrid AI Solutions Engineer for Production-Grade AI

GCS Recruitment; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 268,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment in Krakow is seeking an AI Solutions Engineer on a contract basis. You will identify AI opportunities, shape use cases, build rapid prototypes, and deliver production-grade AI capabilities with strong governance and monitoring.

You will work with product and platform teams across multiple workstreams to create measurable business value. The role requires hands-on software engineering, deep AI/ML knowledge, and experience deploying solutions in production environments.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI capabilities in production and automation solutions.
• Hands-on software engineering across the full development lifecycle.
• Strong Python, SQL, and APIs experience for integrations.
• Fluent English and ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify AI opportunities through data analysis and stakeholder engagement.
• Define and shape AI use cases with success metrics, risks, and controls.
• Build rapid prototypes, proofs of concept, and technical spikes.
• Engineer, deploy, and support production-grade AI solutions.
• Integrate AI with APIs, data sources, authentication, monitoring, and logging.
• Establish KPIs and monitoring to measure value and performance.
• Collaborate with product teams to prioritise opportunities and maintain pipeline.
• Develop reusable assets, templates, and reference architectures.
• Communicate progress, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Support multiple agile delivery initiatives.

Skills

AI solution design

Prototyping & POC

Production engineering

Python

SQL

APIs & integrations

Data analytics

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

English fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

API gateways

Observability tooling

Containerisation

Job description

AI Solutions Engineer (Contract)

Location: Krakow - Hybrid
Contract Length: Initial contract with extension potential
Start Date: ASAP

Overview

We are seeking an experienced AI Solutions Engineer to identify, shape, and deliver AI-driven solutions that create measurable business value. Working closely with product and engineering teams, you will uncover high-impact opportunities, validate concepts through rapid prototyping, and ultimately build production-ready AI capabilities that improve customer outcomes, operational efficiency, resilience, and controls.

This is a hands-on engineering role where success is measured by delivering secure, scalable, and adoptable solutions into production. You will partner closely with AI Product Managers and platform teams to turn ideas into tangible outcomes across multiple workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify AI opportunities through data analysis, operational insights, process telemetry, and stakeholder engagement.
• Define and shape AI use cases, including problem statements, target users, success metrics, constraints, risks, and controls.
• Build rapid prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and technical spikes to validate feasibility and value.
• Engineer, deploy, and support production-grade AI solutions integrated with existing platforms and services.
• Integrate AI capabilities with APIs, data sources, authentication systems, audit tooling, monitoring, and logging frameworks.
• Establish KPIs, performance metrics, and monitoring capabilities to measure solution effectiveness and business value.
• Collaborate with product teams to prioritise opportunities and maintain a high-value delivery pipeline.
• Develop reusable assets including templates, reference architectures, shared libraries, standards, and implementation guides.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and technical recommendations to stakeholders.
• Support multiple concurrent initiatives within an Agile delivery environment.

Essential Skills & Experience

AI & Automation

• Proven experience building and delivering AI capabilities, tooling, or automation solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI solution design, implementation, and deployment.
• Experience identifying business problems and translating them into practical AI use cases.

Software Engineering

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience across the full development lifecycle.
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production services.
• Demonstrated ability to take prototypes and proofs of concept into enterprise-scale production environments.
• Strong experience with:
  • Python
  • SQL
  • APIs and service integrations

Data & Analytics

• Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to uncover opportunities and measure outcomes.
• Experience working with operational metrics, telemetry, logs, and product analytics.
• Ability to define meaningful KPIs and use insights to drive continuous improvement.

Delivery & Collaboration

• Experience working closely with product and business stakeholders to solve complex problems.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and translating ideas into executable plans.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Fluent English with the ability to collaborate across global and multicultural teams.

Desirable Experience

• Experience delivering AI/ML or Generative AI solutions in production.
• Knowledge of:
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • LLM integrations
  • Prompt engineering and tooling patterns
  • AI evaluation frameworks
• Familiarity with Responsible AI principles including privacy, bias mitigation, auditability, and governance requirements.
• Experience working within regulated or highly controlled enterprise environments.
• Experience with:
  • Kubernetes and containerisation
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • API gateways
  • Secrets management
  • Observability and monitoring tooling
• Experience creating reusable engineering frameworks, templates, and internal developer tooling that accelerate adoption across teams.

What We're Looking For

You are a pragmatic engineer who enjoys identifying opportunities, validating ideas quickly, and delivering measurable outcomes. You combine strong software engineering fundamentals with a passion for AI and automation, and you thrive in environments where you can influence direction while remaining hands-on with delivery.

Key Technology Focus: AI Development * Python * SQL * APIs * Automation * GenAI * Production Engineering * Cloud Platforms * Agile Delivery

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.