AI Engineer

We are looking for an AI Engineer to join our AI Services and Delivery team. Within the team you will be part of the Engineering chapter exchanging experience, know-how and ideas with other engineers of different seniorities and backgrounds. As an AI Engineer you will participate and lead (depending on seniority) AI solutions delivery across different Unicredit domains and geographies. As AI Engineer you will also collaborate with a horizontal team to improve and evolve our AI Platform on the cloud with state-of-the-art components and features to be leveraged across initiatives. You will be focusing on AI solutions design and delivery jointly with AI Architects, Data Scientist and AI business translator, ensuring system reliability and scalability in production following market standard Dev and ML ops practices.

What you can expect from us:

• Design and
• development of innovative and cutting-edge AI solutions jointly with Architect
• and Scientist.
• Contribute
• to the scale-up of AI adoption through the creation of libraries and common
• assets – maintain and evolve Unicredit AI Platform leveraging state of the art
• cloud components and open-source frameworks.
• Ensure
• smooth operations through scalable, robust and resilient design of systems
• Adopt state
• of the art technology and cloud-native solutions.
• Define best
• practices and standards for application design and development – including
• deployment patterns, documentations, library adoption and group-wide standards.
• For Senior
• Roles, act as tech lead on horizontal (capabilities and foundations) and
• vertical (business specific project) delivery. Acting as a focal point for
• engineering desing, planning and execution, holding accountability for
• milestone achievements and overall project / delivery success.

What we expect from you

The ideal candidate has:

• University degree in computer science, physics,
• mathematics or engineering.
• 3+ years of practical relevant experience in
• software design and implementation, ideally related to AI systems
• In-depth knowledge of Software Engineering best
• practices, design and architectural patterns.
• Experience in object-oriented software
• development in Python, knowledge of APIs design and implementation - additional
• languages are a plus.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Hands-on experience with AI systems in
• production, embedded into enterprise ecosystems.
• Experience with Agentic AI system design,
• development and maintenance in an enterprise setting with production grade
• infrastructure.
• Proven experience in application development,
• leveraging cloud infrastructure, including cloud services usage and
• integration. (Google preferred, Azure nice to have)
• Eager to learn and stay up to date to AI
• trends, technologies and framework
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the
• ability to work effectively in an agile environment.
• For more senior roles, experience in leading
• the delivery of technical teams bridging gaps between methodological and
• engineering effort guaranteeing smooth transition between prototyping and
• production grade system

Nice to have:

• Practical experience in using ML and/or AI
• frameworks (e.g. KubeFlow, Langchain, Haystack, …)
• Experience and Machine Learning Engineer –
• MLOps lifecycle for traditional AI systems.
• Experience with Open Source LLMs in production,
• LLM fine tuning and deployment.
• Experience in testing strategy (unit test,
• integration test, scalability test) with a focus on AI systems and LLM
• scalability.
• Experience in designing and developing
• microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of DevOps best practices, with proven
• experience of deployments on Kubernetes.

Our offer to you

#MakeInnovationHappen: Chance to make an impact in terms of transformation.

#UnlockYourPotential: Join a young and stimulating environment.

#ComeAsYouAre: Working within a global team.

#UnlockYourPotential: Play a role of autonomy with high visibility and exposure.

#BalanceLifeAndCareer: Flexible working hours.

#EnjoyTheBest: Access to our Benefits platform with a dedicated budget that you will be able to use to choose the most suitable benefits for you.

About UniCredit Group

UniCredit is a pan-European Commercial Bank with a unique service offering in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. Our purpose is to empower communities to progress, delivering the best-in-class for all stakeholders, unlocking a better tomorrow for our clients and our people across Europe. We serve over 15 million customers worldwide. They are at the heart of what we do in all our markets. Digitalisation and our commitment to ESG principles are key enablers for our service. They help us deliver excellence to our stakeholders and creating a sustainable future for our clients, our communities and our people.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We stand together in nurturing a workplace that welcomes diverse thinking and inclusive behaviors.

Making all voices heard and leveraging “diversity of thought” regardless of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, cultural background, we ensure sustainable growth and new business opportunities, a strong drive for innovation and creativity, as well as a general improvement of the work climate with positive impact on productivity, well-being and engagement of our people.