AI System Engineer (m/f/d) 80–100%

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Zürich

Swiss Life AG

Become part of a future-oriented technology team and actively help shape the next generation of AI-supported applications. In this role, you combine modern software development, Azure Cloud Services, and AI into scalable, secure, and user-centric solutions with a direct contribution to the digital transformation of the company.

Live versatility

Your area of responsibility

• You continuously improve the retrieval and response quality of our AI solutions by developing, optimizing, and evaluating the RAG pipeline along the entire processing chain
• You design and implement agentic AI workflows to automate and support internal processes
• You continuously expand our Finance AI platform in Python, from the Chainlit frontend via the agentic orchestrator and the ingestion pipeline to the MCP-based tool connection
• You work with Microsoft Azure and Azure AI Foundry in the areas of agent orchestration, model deployments, prompt engineering, evaluation, and monitoring
• You integrate internal systems and data sources into the platform and its agents using Tool Use, Function Calling, APIs, and document processing
• Through code reviews as well as manual and automated tests, you ensure high code and solution quality

Live potentials

Your strengths

• You have at least five years of experience in software development in an enterprise environment and are well acquainted with common development processes and toolchains
• You bring excellent Python skills as well as practical frontend experience with React, Chainlit, or comparable technologies; knowledge in the area of Infrastructure as Code completes your profile
• Sound practical experience with RAG architectures is part of your technical toolkit, especially in the areas of retrieval, embeddings, vector and hybrid search, as well as evaluation
• You have demonstrable experience in the development of agentic LLM applications and the implementation of complex, multi-step AI workflows
• You work confidently with cloud environments, ideally with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Search, Azure AI Foundry, and Cosmos DB or comparable services, and bring experience in the containerization of applications
• Your way of working is independent, structured, and quality-oriented; furthermore, you have German and English skills at least at level B2

Your contact

Camila Bopp

HR Consulting Partner

About Swiss Life

With our individual pension and financial advice, we accompany people in all situations in life in preparing their financial future and support them in designing their lives with financial self-determination.

For recruitment agencies

Swiss Life does not accept unsolicited application dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position. Only applications submitted via the recruitment agency portal (https://wd3.myworkday.com/wday/authgwy/swisslife/login.htmld?redirect=n) after prior arrangement will be considered.

Any responsibility for unsolicited applications as well as any fees/costs incurred is declined. Thank you for your understanding.