Swiss Life AG
Zürich
AI Engineer (m/f/d) 80–100%
- 19 September 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Zürich
About the job
Become part of a future-oriented technology team and actively shape the next generation of AI-powered applications. In this role, you combine modern software development, Azure Cloud Services, and AI into scalable, secure, and user-centred solutions with a direct contribution to the company’s digital transformation.
Your area of responsibility
- You continuously improve the retrieval and response quality of our AI solutions by developing, optimising, 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 through the agentic orchestrator and ingestion pipeline to the MCP-based tool integration
- 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
- You ensure high code and solution quality through code reviews as well as manual and automated tests
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 infrastructure as code completes your profile
- Solid practical experience with RAG architectures is part of your technical toolkit, especially in retrieval, embeddings, vector and hybrid search, as well as evaluation
- You have proven experience in developing agentic LLM applications and implementing complex, multi-stage 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 have experience in containerising applications
- Your working style is independent, structured, and quality-oriented; furthermore, you have German and English skills at least at B2 level
- Market-oriented base salary
- Bonus depending on company success and personal performance
- Between 25 and 30 days of holiday
- Recognition of service anniversaries every five years
- Flexible working hours
- Mobile office
- Time-out models
- Flexible working models 58+
- Internal training offers
- Support for external education and training
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 financially independently.