Senior AI Engineer

Salary: CHF 120'000 - 140'000 per year

Requirements:

• Product mindset, with a demonstrated ability to translate user workflows into pragmatic, measurable AI solutions that work reliably in production
• Deep familiarity with the current LLM ecosystem and active experimentation with new models, tools, and techniques.
• Proven experience building and shipping production-grade AI or agentic systems, ideally in high-stakes or complex domains.
• Strong software engineering skills and comfort owning systems end-to-end, from design to deployment and maintenance.
• Experience going from 0→1 at a VC-backed startup or similarly fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and ship production-grade agentic AI workflows, including tool use, orchestration, planning, memory, and structured outputs, for clinical trial intelligence use cases.
• Translate user workflows and product requirements into pragmatic, measurable AI solutions that work reliably in production and optimize for user and business value.
• Design and maintain evaluation pipelines, including gold sets, metrics, and experiments, and use them to drive iteration with rigor.
• Implement robust LLMOps practices, including tracing, monitoring, cost and latency management, safe deployment, and continuous improvement of AI systems in production.
• Design high-quality retrieval and context pipelines with strong guarantees on correctness, provenance, and auditability, particularly in regulated environments such as clinical trials.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, and Customer teams to ensure AI features are usable, trusted, and commercially impactful.
• Stay deeply current with the LLM ecosystem, actively experiment with new models and tools, and translate innovation into practical product advantage.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Architect
• LLM

More:

Rockstar Recruiting is exclusively hiring for a Senior AI Engineer to join a fast-growing technology company in Zurich, building a next-generation platform for clinical trial intelligence.

You'll join a dedicated AI Engineering team, architecting and shipping production-grade agentic AI workflows that power critical monitoring, data quality, and insight-generation capabilities for clinical trial stakeholders. Working closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer teams, you'll own AI features end-to-end, from design and evaluation through deployment, observability, and continuous improvement, in a domain where trust, traceability, and auditability are essential.

The role is fully office-based in Zurich. Please get in touch with Tijana of Rockstar Recruiting to discuss further details: tl@rockstar.jobs

last updated 38 week of 2026