Staff AI Engineer

@ Emphasoft

About the Role

Emphasoft is an international software development and outstaffing company based in Finland. As a Staff AI Engineer, you will join our Platform Engineering team to build our core AI platform and apply large language models (LLMs) for intelligent feature delivery. You will design scalable, reliable, and secure backend systems and work hands-on with LLMs to solve real user challenges while driving product innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable AI platform services for intelligent agents.
• Apply LLMs to enhance product features and build AI-driven solutions.
• Develop reusable infrastructure to support rapid experiment, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and engineering teams.
• Integrate with multiple LLM providers and manage model selection and fallback strategies.
• Implement scalable APIs and microservices utilizing cloud-native technologies.
• Adhere to AI privacy, security and regulatory compliance standards.
• Stay updated with advancements in AI, MLOps, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science or related field.
• Extensive experience in building scalable AI/ML platforms in production.
• Deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Experience with agentic frameworks and MLOps best practices.
• Strong ability to address AI privacy, security, and compliance challenges.

What We Offer

• Fully remote work and a flexible schedule.
• B2B contract (self-employment/sole proprietorship).
• Corporate English courses.
• 3 paid sick days per year.
• No micromanagement – trust and autonomy.

Key skills/competency

AI, LLM, backend, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, MLOps, Python, distributed, cloud