Senior GenAI Engineer 80%-100% (m/f/d)

About the job

LGT is the world's largest private banking and asset management group owned by an entrepreneurial family. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we impress you with many years of experience in managing large fortunes.

Your role at LGT

As a Senior GenAI Engineer in the Data & Analytics area, you are a key member of LGT's GenAI team in Zurich and develop production-ready generative applications together with business units and engineering teams.

You design and develop scalable GenAI solutions end-to-end with a clear focus on software quality, architecture, and maintainability. You work on modern AI applications, agentic workflows, model orchestration, and enterprise integrations to reliably bring innovative use cases into production.

As a senior team member, you help shape architecture and engineering standards, take on mentoring, and contribute to further developing AI engineering capabilities within LGT. The role requires strong hands-on engineering skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to deliver high-quality solutions in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

Design, development, and operation of production-ready GenAI applications end-to-end

Development of robust RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM-based solutions

Integration of GenAI solutions into enterprise systems, APIs, and internal data sources

Use of effective prompt engineering and model orchestration to implement reliable AI systems

Management of solution architecture, technical decisions, and engineering standards to scale AI engineering at LGT

Writing high-quality, well-tested code and applying modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, version control, automated testing)

Collaboration with business units to translate requirements into GenAI solutions and communicate technical concepts clearly

Contribution to shared platform components, evaluation and LLMOps practices, and knowledge sharing to strengthen GenAI engineering skills within the team

University degree (Bachelor or higher) in computer science or a related field

At least 5 years of professional experience in software development with proven production experience, including at least 3 years in agile teams

Very good programming skills in Python and solid software engineering fundamentals (design patterns, testing, clean code)

Practical experience in developing GenAI/LLM applications, including RAG, with modern frameworks and APIs (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI API) as well as vector databases

Experience in designing and developing APIs and backend services (e.g., FastAPI) as well as solid DevOps knowledge: CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, containerization, and deployment automation

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to explain technical matters appropriately to the audience

Very good English skills

Nice-to-have

Experience in the financial services sector or another regulated industry

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and major cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS)

Experience with LLMOps and evaluation frameworks for GenAI applications as well as familiarity with MCP and frameworks like FastMCP

Experience with observability and monitoring of production systems as well as asynchronous or event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka)

German language skills are an advantage

A great place to work – a great place to have impact: LGT promotes the diversity of its employees. We believe that an inclusive and appreciative corporate culture is the driver for a great workplace and offers the opportunity to create a unique and successful team. Therefore, our employees can also benefit from many additional benefits.

Transparency and integrity are important to us. Therefore, you will find everything you need to know about us on our website before deciding whether the career opportunities at LGT align with your values. For example, about the history of the Princely Family, which is closely linked to our history.