Lead AI Engineer - Enterprise AI & MLOps Leader (Kraków)

IFS; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work opportunities

Job summary

IFS is building the next generation of AI-native enterprise software. We seek a Lead AI Engineer to design and deploy production AI applications, leveraging LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows across enterprise data and processes.

You will mentor teams, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with customers to deliver measurable business impact in a hybrid, flexible environment from Warsaw and across Central Europe.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, or a related field. Master’s degree is advantageous.
• 8+ years of professional experience in AI, Machine Learning, and/or Software Engineering, backed by a proven track record of successfully delivered projects.
• Experience bringing incubated AI solutions to production, including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and vigilant monitoring.
• Strong programming skills one or more mainstream programming languages such as Python, Golang, C#, or TypeScript.
• Experience with context engineering, including retrieval architecture, embeddings, vector databases, search technologies, and retrieval optimization techniques.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed services, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, integration, automation, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect AI-powered systems using LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and orchestration patterns integrated with enterprise data and business processes
• Develop secure, maintainable, production-ready software platforms and cloud-native services that orchestrate models, tools, retrieval systems, and enterprise workflows
• Build rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate new technologies and identify business opportunities
• Establish comprehensive evaluation, monitoring, and quality practices including testing, benchmarking, observability, and continuous improvement
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and drive engineering best practices across teams
• Mentor engineers and develop reusable AI capabilities and frameworks that accelerate delivery across the organization
• Collaborate with product teams, architects, domain experts, customers, and partners to identify opportunities and deliver business impact
• Influence IFS's AI strategy and long-term technology direction through hands-on delivery, experimentation, and customer engagement, including external-facing innovation through industry events and partner collaboration

Skills

LLM architecture

RAG

Agentic AI

MLOps

Cloud-native

Python

Backend engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI

Master's degree advantageous

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm Charts

LangChain

OpenAI

Job description

IFS is building the next generation of AI-native enterprise software. We seek a Lead AI Engineer to design and deploy production AI applications, leveraging LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows across enterprise data and processes.

You will mentor teams, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with customers to deliver measurable business impact in a hybrid, flexible environment from Warsaw and across Central Europe.