Manager of Artificial Intelligence

Role: AI Lead

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Work model: 3 days onsite WFO required

Start date: ASAP

Rate: Negotiable

End date: Up to 12 months project (3–6 month rolling extensions)

Language: English speaking fine

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable LLM-based systems, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI agentic architectures.
• Fine-tune and optimize Large Language Models (LLMs) for domain-specific applications.
• Build and maintain MLOps pipelines using MLFlow for experiment tracking, model versioning, and automated deployments.
• Leverage Azure Cloud Services (including Azure DevOps, GraphAPI, and authentication mechanisms) to deploy and manage AI solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data engineers, product managers, and DevOps to deliver AI-powered products.
• Apply object-oriented and functional programming paradigms to build clean, maintainable, and performant code.
• Ensure compliance with security, scalability, and performance standards throughout the AI lifecycle.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, AI/ML development, or a related field.
• Strong foundational IT knowledge, especially in object-oriented and functional programming.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Proven experience working with GenAI frameworks, LLMs, and RAG architectures.
• Hands-on expertise in LLM fine-tuning, transfer learning, and narrow model development.
• Deep understanding of MLOps best practices with hands-on experience using MLFlow.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Azure, including Azure DevOps, Graph API, and authentication mechanisms.

If you are interested, or you know someone that could be, please reach out and we can arrange a time to speak?