Artificial Intelligence Engineer

About the role

A fast-growing European SaaS company building a cloud-based Quality Management System for the Life Sciences industry is adding AI capabilities to its platform: an assistant that answers questions across quality records and documents, and services that extract structured data from documents. The engineering team is fully remote, and the position is advertised by Look4IT on behalf of the client.

Key responsibilities

• Build an AI assistant that answers questions across quality data, records and documents
• Build RAG with source citations, retrieval limited to the correct tenant and to what the user is allowed to see
• Build document extraction services producing validated, structured data with source references
• Design data models for quality information and extracted content
• Build backend services, REST APIs and tool integrations, with unit and integration tests
• Co-own AI evaluation with QA and Product: reference datasets, expected results and release criteria
• Run services in production, covering reliability, response time and model usage costs
• Champion AI adoption in the team and mentor junior developers

Required profile

• 5+ years of hands-on backend development with strong Python
• LLMs delivered and operated in production, not just prototypes
• Experience evaluating LLM features: reference datasets, automated checks and human review
• Fluent written and spoken English and high autonomy

Required skills

• RAG and/or tool calling
• REST API design, message buses and queues
• Data modelling and SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Containerised services on a cloud platform, CI/CD, logging, tracing and monitoring
• Solid unit and integration testing, mocking strategies and secure coding

What we offer

• Long-term cooperation on a B2B contract, full-time
• 100% remote work with overlap with CET working hours
• Greenfield AI work on a product used in a highly regulated industry