AI Engineer

We're an award-winning company looking for a Senior AI Engineer who can take a business problem and turn it into typed, tested production code. Welcome to Nordea Life & Pension Finland. We are a solvent Finnish life insurance company and part of the Nordea Group... Now we focus on building our AI capability over maintaining a legacy. You'll join alongside data scientists, developers, and MLOps. Technical ownership, including architecture, standards and engineering direction, belongs to the senior engineers we're bringing in. What youll be doing: - Design and deliver AI solutions end-to-end: from requirements to production, leveraging LLMs, agent architectures, and API integrations - Own technical and architecture decisions within your domain - Evaluate solutions for accuracy, explainability, bias, cost, and reliability under real conditions - Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and developers - Contribute to MLOps practices that keep our solutions reliable and scalable Our stack is Python (typed, tested, linted - we use pytest, mypy, and ruff), SQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform, and Git. Who you are - Experience building AI solutions that run in production and are relied upon by real users - Strong Python: typed, tested, maintainable. Pytest, mypy, and ruff are part of your workflow - Experience with LLM-based applications in production: RAG, agents, or API integrations - Ability to evaluate AI solutions critically: bias, explainability, uncertainty - Working knowledge of AWS (or equivalent cloud) and Docker - Comfort with code review and working in a shared codebase - Working proficiency in Finnish and English - Masters or PhD in a related field Beneficial: - LLM finetuning or self-hosting open-source models - Agent frameworks (OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, Google ADK) - Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) - Background in insurance, financial services, or other regulated domains - Awareness of data privacy, GDPR, security, and ethical considerations in AI workloads What we offer: - High autonomy and ownership in a small, award-winning company - Real influence on architecture, standards and engineering direction - Close collaboration, short decision paths and meaningful day-to-day impact - Lunch (on top of salary), sport & culture benefit - Banking benefits, e.g. personnel mortgage margin and free daily banking services - Modern office above the metro station and close to the train station in Kaisaniemi - Training and education possibilities in a team that values continuous improvement