Senior AI Product Engineer / AI Workflow Architect

Location: Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Wien, Wien, Austria

Department: External - Technology

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Our Client is scaling AI across core operations -- from document processing and knowledge systems to decision support and automation. They are looking for a Senior AI Engineer who combines strong Python skills, LLM system design expertise, and a deep sense of responsibility for output quality.

Our Client’s mission is to improve healthcare through innovation and operational excellence. You will play a key role in shaping the AI systems that support life-saving projects globally and build AI systems people rely on every day.

NOTE IF YOU RESIDE ABROAD: THIS POSITION REQUIRES MANDATORY RELOCATION TO VIENNA, AUSTRIA. FOLLOWING AN INITIAL 3-4 MONTH PERIOD OF FULLY REMOTE COOPERATION, THE ROLE TRANSITIONS TO A HYBRID, ON-SITE WORK MODEL BASED IN VIENNA.

Your role & responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end AI workflows integrated into real business processes
• Build and maintain Python-based AI systems (LLMs, embeddings, retrieval, orchestration)
• Work with large, heterogeneous datasets (ERP data, emails, documents, APIs, files)
• Design and manage vectorization pipelines and retrieval strategies
• Trace, monitor, and debug LLM calls, prompts, outputs, and failures
• Define and enforce quality, reliability, and evaluation standards for AI outputs
• Collaborate closely with product, business, and tech stakeholders
• Decide when AI is the right tool -- and when it is not
• Document architectures, trade-offs, and decisions clearly and pragmatically

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Python in production environments
• Experience building systems with LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, open-source models, etc.)
• Solid understanding of embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval patterns
• Experience with prompting, evaluation, tracing, and output quality control
• Ability to design AI systems that are robust, explainable, and maintainable
• Comfort working with ERP data and Microsoft systems
• Product mindset: you care about outcomes, not just models
• High sense of ownership and responsibility for system behavior
• Clear and structured communication; able to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• Persistence, curiosity, and motivation to learn
• Experience integrating AI into real business workflows is a strong plus

Benefits

What Our Client offers

• A high-impact AI role with real-world responsibility
• Direct ownership of AI systems used across the organization
• The chance to shape long-term AI architecture and strategy
• Purpose-driven work supporting healthcare supply chains globally
• Flat hierarchies, fast decisions, and direct access to stakeholders
• A highly international, values-driven team in an English-speaking work environment in one of the best cities in the world to live in

Additional perks

• Support for relocating to Vienna, Austria (work visa, language courses, integration support)
• High degree of autonomy and technical ownership
• Budget for tools, infrastructure, and AI experimentation
• Time explicitly reserved for system quality, evaluation, and refactoring
• Purpose-driven work with visible real-world impact