Software Engineer - Agentic Engineering — Swiss Re
- Location
- Bratislava, SK
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 12 days ago
Role overview
P&C Re Engineering is looking for a Software Engineer to help build and evolve the AI and agentic systems behind our reinsurance business.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys shipping production software, is fluent — or eager to become fluent — with agentic coding tools, and wants to work at the frontier of applied AI.
It is a contract engagement within one of our business-line squads.
- P&C Re Engineering is looking for a Software Engineer to help build and evolve the AI and agentic systems behind our reinsurance business.
- This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys shipping production software, is fluent — or eager to become fluent — with agentic coding tools, and wants to work at the frontier of applied AI.
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
- the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
Main responsibilities
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
- the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
- In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements.
- Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.
- Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract. About Swiss Re
- Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient.
- We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
- Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients.
- This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
- Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
Application process
- If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
- Maintain, refactor and extend the line's AI applications and services in production
- Build agentic-friendly software: the tools, services and workflows that LLM-based agents call
- Design AI workflows that combine models, prompts, tools, enterprise data, and business logic
- Validate model behavior, outputs, and assumptions from a production and business-use perspective
- Design and maintain evaluation frameworks for AI/LLM systems, including test suites and human evaluation workflows
- Write evaluations and quality checks for agent behavior, and build in grounding and assurance
- Ensure reliability, scalability, cost control, and latency optimization
Additional details
- While this is a hands-on engineering role, it rewards a strong product and quality mindset: you will own the software behind a line's AI systems and lead its development toward genuinely agentic systems.
- You will work closely with the Product, Architecture and Domain Delivery organisations. If you join us, you will for example:
- Our focus on agentic engineering connects us: we invest in the tools and patterns that let a small team deliver outsized impact, and we expect everyone to share what they learn.
- A Forward Deployed Engineer mindset — a desire to understand the business problem, the impact the solution makes, and to drive pragmatic decisions towards realising it API / service / integration engineering
- Exposure to Data Science methods in validating AI models It is a strong plus if you also have:
- Experience with Palantir Foundry / AIP (valued, not required) Insurance or reinsurance domain exposure
- Experience with cloud AI services (e.g.
- For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 2,400] and [EUR 4,100] per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
- Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
- To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying. Reference Code: 137790
Notes and original content
- What you will do
- You will work closely with the Product, Architecture and Domain Delivery organisations.
- If you join us, you will for example:
- A Forward Deployed Engineer mindset — a desire to understand the business problem, the impact the solution makes, and to drive pragmatic decisions towards realising it
- API / service / integration engineering
- Exposure to Data Science methods in validating AI models
- It is a strong plus if you also have:
- Experience with Palantir Foundry / AIP (valued, not required)
- Insurance or reinsurance domain exposure
- For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 2,400] and [EUR 4,100] per month (for a full-time role).
Questions about this listing
What salary does Swiss Re offer for this role?
Swiss Re lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Bratislava, SK. 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 Swiss Re 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 Re 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 Swiss Re?
Use the "Apply now" button on this page — it links directly to Swiss Re's original listing at swissre.com, so your application goes straight to the employer's own applicant-tracking system. Frontaliere Ticino does not collect or forward applications itself.
