AI Senior Engineer — Zurich Insurance (sede Ticino)
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- part-time
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Role overview
AI Senior Engineer Place of work: Cracow Job purpose
Are you a motivated, hands-on, and innovative person, interested in working for one of the largest global insurers?
Are you obsessed with developing great AI/LLM-powered analytics software, which helps addressing daily business challenges of one of the biggest global insurers?
- AI Senior Engineer Place of work: Cracow Job purpose:
- Are you a motivated, hands-on, and innovative person, interested in working for one of the largest global insurers?
- Working on high impact projects with end-to-end responsibility for their success
- Evaluating and applying the right cloud and foundation model capabilities (e.g., Azure OpenAI and open-source models) to solve specific business problems, including RAG, tool-use/agents, and orchestration
- We are looking for an AI Senior Engineer with strong engineering skills to join the global Commercial Insurance team. Java and/or Scala are a plus;
- Experience with cloud-based technology and solution design:
Main responsibilities
- Working on high impact projects with end-to-end responsibility for their success
- Evaluating and applying the right cloud and foundation model capabilities (e.g., Azure OpenAI and open-source models) to solve specific business problems, including RAG, tool-use/agents, and orchestration
Key requirements
- We are looking for an AI Senior Engineer with strong engineering skills to join the global Commercial Insurance team. Java and/or Scala are a plus;
- Experience with cloud-based technology and solution design:
- with a main focus on Natural Language processing - Experience with web scraping, e.g., Selenium/Playwright We offer:
Application process
- Generating insights from internal and external data sources, using a wide range of tools and methodologies, e.g., from building robust big data pipelines in Spark/Databricks to applying LLMs, retrieval, embeddings, and classical ML/statistics, and extending our front-end applications
- Building applications loved by internal and external users: from implementing proof of concepts to full-scale solutions; from portfolio management applications used by senior Zurich executives to API services embedded into the core Underwriting processes
- Making sure our platform expands and runs reliably in Production: build or help build AI models, add new and further optimize existing data pipelines, expand our automation architecture (e.g., web scrapers, automated user alerts)
- Coordinating directly with product managers and application users globally (with particular focus on adoption)
- Mentoring and developing more junior team members on all matters above Candidate’s profile: Technically strong:
- Has professional experience across data science and data engineering (shipping production grade analytics/AI applications)
- Hands-on experience building LLM applications (e.g., prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector stores, evaluation & guardrails, cost/performance tuning) and willingness to engineer the full stack to get them into production
- Familiarity with agentic patterns (tool use, planning, function calling, document workflows) and LLM orchestration frameworks
Additional details
- AI Senior Engineer Place of work: Cracow
- We are looking for an AI Senior Engineer with strong engineering skills to join the global Commercial Insurance team. In this role, you will:
- Mentoring and developing more junior team members on all matters above Candidate’s profile: Technically strong:
- Passion to tackle real business problems and persistence to follow through with your recommendations Good team player and communicator
- Excellent written and spoken English, other European languages are a plus
- Experience with web scraping, e.g., Selenium/Playwright
- Wide range of learning programs and personal development opportunities including also possibility to apply for up to 80% of educational trainings reimbursement Online fitness trainings Nice and friendly atmosphere
Notes and original content
- AI Senior Engineer
- Place of work: Cracow
- Job purpose:
- We are looking for an AI Senior Engineer with strong engineering skills to join the global Commercial Insurance team.
- In this role, you will:
- Responsibilities:
- Mentoring and developing more junior team members on all matters above
- Candidate’s profile:
- Technically strong:
- Passion to tackle real business problems and persistence to follow through with your recommendations
Questions about this listing
What salary does Zurich Insurance (sede Ticino) offer for this role?
Zurich Insurance (sede Ticino) lists CHF 124'000 - 173'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Zurich Insurance (sede Ticino) offer?
This listing is a part-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Zurich Insurance (sede Ticino) during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
How do I apply for this position at Zurich Insurance (sede Ticino)?
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