Specialist Software Engineering - AI Engineer
Aeon
Winterthur, Switzerland
8 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
$ 170KJob location
Remote
Philadelphia, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Information Systems
Graph Database
Interoperability
Python
Software Engineering
Systems Integration
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large Language Models
Multi-Agent Systems
Spark
AWS Lambda
GIT
Cloudformation
Containerization
PySpark
Information Technology
Deployment Automation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Api Gateway
REST
Terraform
Software Version Control
Serverless Computing
Docker
Job description
- Serve as a technical lead for AI and agent-based initiatives, including scoping, estimation, and architectural design of AI & Actuarial Applications.
- Design, develop, and deploy intelligent agents using AWS Bedrock, LangChain, Kiro, Graph DB, Strands, and related agent frameworks.
- Build and maintain applications using AWS agent core framework, orchestration layers, and hierarchical agent workflows to support complex reasoning and automation use cases.
- Develop secure, scalable APIs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway to expose AI and agent capabilities to downstream systems.
- Implement prompt engineering best practices to optimize model performance, accuracy, and reliability across use cases.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into AI-driven solutions and agent workflows.
- Design and implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pipelines leveraging vector databases and knowledge graphs.
- Develop, Maintain and enhance actuarial applications with core focus on EC2, PySpark, AWS Glue, S3, Athena and other AWS services. *
- Monitor, evaluate, and optimize LLM performance, cost, latency, and reliability in production environments.
- Support testing cycles by validating AI outputs, identifying gaps, and improving agent behavior through tuning and iteration.
- Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, and responsible AI usage.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Strong experience with Python & Spark for building AI, data, and agent-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock and large language models (LLMs).
- Experience using LangChain, Strands, or similar agent frameworks.
- Strong understanding of agent core design, multi-agent systems, and orchestration patterns.
- Experience building serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
- Solid knowledge of prompt & context engineering techniques and LLM optimization strategies.
- Experience integrating LLMs with enterprise systems via APIs.
- Build Solutions to any complex business problem using AI-Development Life Cycle methodology.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills., * Experience with broader AI and agent frameworks, including hierarchical agents and autonomous agent architectures.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and emerging agent interoperability standards.
- Experience with Kiro or similar AI IDE tools for agent-assisted development workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform), and version control (Git).
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker, Amazon ECS, or EKS for production AI deployments.
- Experience with AWS Quick Tools and AWS Frontier Agents.
- Hands-on experience with deep research agents and multi-step reasoning workflows.
- Experience implementing RAG using Vector Databases (e.g., OpenSearch, Pinecone, FAISS) and Graph Databases.
- Exposure to model tuning, embeddings, and evaluation techniques.
- Knowledge of enterprise AI governance, security, and responsible AI practices.
- Experience in financial services or regulated enterprise environments., Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Benefits & conditions
- Hybrid-Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)
- Work outside of normal business hours may be required
- Moderate Travel 10 to 25%, The Salary for this position generally ranges between $131,000 - $170,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.
About the company
At Aeon, we believe that everyone should be given the chance to take full ownership over their health in order to lead a long, fulfilling and healthy life. we do this by providing our customers with deep, actionable insights into their health, utilising whole body MRI scans, blood tests and advanced machine learning driven processing and diagnosis of health data.