Senior AI Engineer

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, NLP, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning systems in production
• Proven expertise in NLP techniques, LLM fine-tuning, and model evaluation
• Strong proficiency with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and ML tools (e.g., scikit-learn, Hugging Face)
• Advanced Python programming skills and solid software engineering fundamentals
• Experience designing and maintaining end-to-end ML pipelines, from data ingestion to deployment
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows or building autonomous AI systems is a major plus
• Familiarity with chatbots, conversational AI, or multi-agent systems is strongly preferred
• Experience with data quality management, evaluation metrics, or observability in ML systems is a plus
• Strong analytical thinking, creativity, and an ownership mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional, international environment
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

• Architect and build agentic workflows that combine large language models, reasoning components, and data pipelines to create adaptive, goal-driven conversational systems
• Lead the design and development of advanced ML/NLP products, including model training, evaluation, optimization, and deployment
• Drive experimentation with new approaches for agentic reasoning, coordination, and autonomous system design
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to integrate intelligent agents into real-world recruiting workflows
• Guide technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and help define best practices for scalable, maintainable ML systems
• Contribute to the evolution of the NLP and conversational intelligence stack, focusing on reliability, personalization, and user impact
• Proactively identify opportunities to automate, improve, and innovate within the chat-based ecosystem

Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.