AI Software Engineer (w/m/d) 80-100% — Swiss Life
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- Full-time
- Posted
Full description
Shape the future. Yours and ours.
Would you like to help people to lead a self-determined life? And do you want to use your creative scope to reconcile your professional and personal ambitions? Then we can offer you an exciting prospect: at Swiss Life you will be able to deploy your individual talents and expertise in a stimulating and flexible work environment. What’s more, you will be given a good measure of responsibility and can thus contribute to shaping the future of Swiss Life.
Wir suchen einen pragmatischen, lösungsorientierten AI Software Engineer, der in dynamischen, interdisziplinären Teams strategische Business-Vorhaben in produktionsreife Agentic-AI-Lösungen umsetzt. Du denkst vom Business-Problem her und verbindest solides Software Engineering mit autonomen AI-Architekturen und Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI), um verlässliche, betriebsfähige Software mit spürbarem Mehrwert zu liefern.
Dein Verantwortungsbereich
- End-to-End Engineering Ownership in fokussierten, interdisziplinären Vorhaben übernehmen: von der Anforderungsklärung und Architektur bis zu testbaren, deploybaren und operations-ready Produktionsservices (inkl. Observability, SLOs und Runbooks)
- Stateful Multi-Agent Workflows, Tool-Integrationen (MCP, A2A, Enterprise APIs), hybride Retrieval-/Memory-Pipelines sowie Recursive-Self-Improvement-(RSI)-Loops mit verlässlichen Guardrails entwerfen und orchestrieren
- Direkt mit Business Stakeholdern, Domain Experts, Architects und Engineers zusammenarbeiten, um die eigentlichen Business-Probleme im Kern zu verstehen, in pragmatische Lösungen zu übersetzen und mittels Automated Evals sowie User-Feedback kontinuierlich weiterzuentwickeln
- Cloud-native Services sowie CI/CD- und Evaluation-Pipelines mit GitHub und Azure aufbauen und betreiben sowie Best Practices und Engineering-Standards aktiv über Teams hinweg teilen
Deine Stärken
- Mindestens 5 Jahre Berufserfahrung im professionellen Software Engineering mit Fokus auf resiliente, produktionsreife Systeme in agilen, interdisziplinären Teams
- Praxiserfahrung in der Entwicklung und Produktivsetzung von Agentic-AI-Systemen (Multi-Agent Orchestration, Tool Use, MCP, State/Memory Management, RSI Patterns und Agentic RAG)
- Fundiertes Praxiswissen zu aktuellen Frontier Reasoning-, Multimodal- und Open-Weight-Modellen (OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek etc.) inklusive Context Engineering,Model Routing, Structured Outputs sowie Automated Evals und Tracing
- Starke Software-Engineering- und Cloud-Native-Skills (Python und/oder TypeScript sowie .NET/C#und ASP.NET Core für Enterprise Backends) auf Azure und Kubernetes unter Einsatz von Azure AIFoundry und GitHub (GitHub Actions, Copilot)
- Solides Verständnis von Enterprise AI Security, Datenschutz und Governance (Least-PrivilegeAgent Permissions, Sandboxed Execution, Prompt-Injection Defense, Auditability)
- Lösungsorientierte, kommunikative und teamorientierte Persönlichkeit, die Business-Anforderungen rasch erfasst, mit AI-nativen Workflows innovative Lösungen entwickelt und messbaren Mehrwert schafft
- Freude an interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit, Cross-Skilling und Mentoring runden dein Profil ab
Your benefits We help our employees to shape their professional development and their private life to their best advantage and throughout all phases of their life. Our attractive benefits , such as options for working from home, 25 to 30 days of leave, 3rd pillar premium contributions and a broad range of continued training options contribute to this goal.
Information for recruitment agencies For this position, Swiss Life is not accepting any application dossiers from recruitment agencies that are submitted spontaneously. Only applications submitted by prior agreement via the recruitment agency jobs portal will be accepted.
No liability will be accepted for spontaneous applications and any fees/costs incurred by them. Thank you for your understanding.
Your contact
Petra Bärtsch Tel
+41 43 284 65 36
Questions about this listing
What salary does Swiss Life offer for this role?
The original listing does not state a salary. Our estimate for this role and sector in Zürich is CHF 83'000 - 126'000 gross per year — an estimate, not a figure communicated by Swiss Life. The calculator on this site converts a gross salary into 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 Swiss Life offer?
This listing is a full-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 Swiss Life 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 citizens living in an EU/EFTA state can apply for a G permit and can work anywhere in Switzerland: border zones no longer apply to them, and they must return home at least once a week. The Swiss employer files the request with Canton Zürich's migration office after the contract is signed. Processing times vary by 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 Swiss Life?
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