Senior Full Stack AI/ML Engineer

About the role

The Senior Full Stack AI/ML Engineer designs, builds and scales the user interfaces, APIs and backend services behind the team's Generative AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. These applications support use cases from early-stage scientific research to post-market surveillance, such as systematic literature reviews, competitive intelligence, target identification and safety monitoring. The engineer works alongside data scientists and scientific subject matter experts and has the autonomy to propose architectural directions.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver features end-to-end, from user interface to backend logic, with integrated data and AI capabilities
• Clarify requirements with stakeholders and check them for assumptions, feasibility, consistency and completeness
• Shape modern application-layer patterns for UIs, APIs and business logic across the team
• Write technical specifications weighing architectural options, trade-offs and risks
• Ensure interfaces are accessible (WCAG compliant) and performant, and APIs are secure and observable, with unit, integration and component tests
• Own and maintain production applications, drive upgrades, fix bugs and reduce technical debt
• Integrate coding agents into workflows such as automated code review, test generation and dependency upgrades
• Mentor colleagues and provide documentation and onboarding materials

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, focused on full-stack or frontend-heavy development
• 3+ years building, scaling and maintaining production applications with React and TypeScript
• Experience designing robust REST APIs in at least one backend language, plus familiarity with Python

Required skills

• React and TypeScript
• REST API design
• Generative AI and machine learning
• AWS, Git, GitHub, OpenSearch

What we offer

• Hybrid working model and flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary and incentive pay, pension and health insurance contributions
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days and 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements
• Cafeteria with tax-free benefits, multisport card, Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora and discount programs
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone, parking, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library and music corner
• Professional growth through learning platforms, conferences and communities of practice