Zürich
AI Software Engineer (m/f/d) 80-100%
- 12 November 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- Zürich
About the job
We are looking for a pragmatic, solution-oriented AI Software Engineer who implements strategic business initiatives into production-ready agentic AI solutions within dynamic, interdisciplinary teams. You think from the business problem perspective and combine solid software engineering with autonomous AI architectures and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) to deliver reliable, operational software with tangible added value.AI Software Engineer (m/f/d) 80-100%
Live your ambitions
Zurich
Swiss Life AG
Embrace versatility
Your area of responsibility
- Take end-to-end engineering ownership in focused, interdisciplinary projects: from requirements clarification and architecture to testable, deployable and operations-ready production services (including observability, SLOs and runbooks)
- Design and orchestrate stateful multi-agent workflows, tool integrations (MCP, A2A, Enterprise APIs), hybrid retrieval/memory pipelines as well as recursive self-improvement (RSI) loops with reliable guardrails
- Work directly with business stakeholders, domain experts, architects and engineers to deeply understand the core business problems, translate them into pragmatic solutions and continuously develop them further using automated evaluations and user feedback
- Build and operate cloud-native services as well as CI/CD and evaluation pipelines with GitHub and Azure, and actively share best practices and engineering standards across teams
Realise potential
Your strengths
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience focusing on resilient, production-ready systems in agile, interdisciplinary teams; practical experience in developing and deploying agentic AI systems (multi-agent orchestration, tool use, MCP, state/memory management, RSI patterns and agentic RAG)
- Solid practical knowledge of current frontier reasoning, multimodal and open-weight models (OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek etc.) including context engineering, model routing, structured outputs as well as automated evaluations and tracing
- Strong software engineering and cloud-native skills (Python and/or TypeScript as well as .NET/C# and ASP.NET Core for enterprise backends) on Azure and Kubernetes using Azure AIFoundry and GitHub (GitHub Actions, Copilot)
- Sound understanding of enterprise AI security, data protection and governance (least-privilege agent permissions, sandboxed execution, prompt-injection defence, auditability)
- Solution-oriented, communicative and team-oriented personality who quickly grasps business requirements, develops innovative solutions with AI-native workflows and creates measurable added value; enjoyment of interdisciplinary collaboration, cross-skilling and mentoring complete your profile
Your contact
Petra Bärtsch
Talent Acquisition Partner
About Swiss Life
With our individual pension and financial advice, we accompany people in all stages of life in preparing for their financial future and support them in shaping their lives with financial independence.
For recruitment agencies
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