Lead AI Engineer for Product Lab — Fast Prototyping

Schibsted; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Schibsted is building the next generation of media products through the Product Lab. We’re seeking a Lead Engineer to join the Lab's core team to drive AI-enabled, high-velocity development from idea to prototype to production.

You will set the technical direction, write substantial code, and help scale the Lab as it grows. This role blends AI engineering with software engineering and requires hands-on leadership in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building digital and AI products as a software engineer, tech lead or similar senior role, and hands-on
• Shipped features built on language models, agents, retrieval or generated content
• Broad skills across front end, back end, APIs and data
• AI-native approach to building prototypes and production-ready code

Responsibilities

• Assess new product ideas quickly for technical feasibility, cost and risk with clear go/no-go recommendations
• Build and ship early prototypes and experiments using code, AI tools, APIs and Schibsted platforms
• Develop AI-centered product experiences using language models, agents and retrieval
• Make architecture and technology choices aligned to idea maturity and prototyping needs
• Collaborate with product, design, editorial and cross-team engineers across Schibsted
• Coach engineers joining the Lab, sometimes for short engagements

Skills

AI engineering

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Tools

Language models

Agents

Retrieval

APIs

Job description

Schibsted is building the next generation of media products through the Product Lab. We’re seeking a Lead Engineer to join the Lab's core team to drive AI-enabled, high-velocity development from idea to prototype to production.

You will set the technical direction, write substantial code, and help scale the Lab as it grows. This role blends AI engineering with software engineering and requires hands-on leadership in a fast-moving environment.