Machine Learning Engineer

Are you passionate about shaping the future of insurance technology? We are looking for a Senior ML Engineer who can turn machine learning from promising prototypes into reliable production services and help build long-term technical quality in a regulated business environment. 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 you’ll be doing: - Own the production lifecycle of ML/AI models: serving, monitoring, scaling and reliability - Design and operate model serving infrastructure (vLLM or equivalent) across hybrid environments - Implement ML-specific monitoring: prediction quality, drift detection, latency, throughput, and cost per inference - Manage GPU infrastructure: provisioning, scheduling, utilization optimization - Ensure security, compliance, and reliability for AI workloads in a regulated environment Our AI workloads include LLM serving on vLLM with GPU infrastructure, agent-based systems, and we use SageMaker for parts of our ML pipeline. The broader stack is Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and Git. Who you are - Experience running ML/AI models in production - Strong Python skills for production systems - Strong understanding of why ML systems fail in practice: drift, data quality, silent degradation - Hands-on experience with Docker and cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS - Familiarity with model serving concepts: latency, reliability, scaling - Working proficiency in Finnish and English - Master’s or PhD in a related field What we offer - High autonomy and ownership - Real influence on architecture and engineering standards - Hybrid working: 60 % onsite and 40 % remote - Lunch (on top of salary), sport & culture benefit - Banking benefits e.g. personnel mortgage margin and free daily banking services - Modern office above metro station and close to train station - Training and education possibilities