Applied AI Engineer

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

We are seeking experienced, product-minded AI Engineers who will work with customers to solve their most complex problems using expertise in generative AI, and machine learning. As one of the founding AI Engineers, you will set the foundations of how we will design, develop, and deploy AI-driven workflows for industrial applications. This role requires a technical background in AI approaches and prior experience in delivering AI solutions, at scale. A keen ability to rapidly prototype and iterate AI solutions in collaboration with customers and use case leads is a must. You will be responsible for applying generative AI techniques and multi-agent systems to solve real-world industrial challenges. This role demands a high level of creativity in developing new AI-driven use cases, rapid prototyping capabilities, and the ability to work closely with enterprise customers to refine solutions that align with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

● Work closely with customers, domain experts, and use case leads to identify pain points, define AI-driven solutions, and iteratively prototype use cases

● Rapidly build proof-of-concept (PoC) AI solutions and evaluate their impact in real-world industrial workflows before scaling them into production

● Apply generative AI models, including LLMs, to create AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, and autonomous execution

● Integrate AI-driven decision-making into existing industrial systems, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other enterprise platforms

● Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven autonomous agents tailored for industrial applications, implement agentic AI applications that enable task completion in industrial settings

● Test, validate, and optimize AI solutions to ensure reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance in industrial settings

● Stay ahead of the latest advancements in generative AI and multi-agent systems to drive innovation within the company

Qualifications

● Strong problem-solving skills, innovation mindset, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, experimental environment

● Technical degree in a computing related discipline, or equivalent industry or academic experience

● Experience in collaborating with or leveraging tools from leading AI frontier labs, to make the most of the capabilities of the models is a plus

● Experience in building and deploying gen AI applications in 0 to 1 stage. Ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on AI-driven workflows, ensuring solutions are both technically sound and aligned with business objectives

● Expertise in prompt engineering best practices, demonstrated through successfully rolled out solutions

● Must have experience in integrating enterprise wide knowledge into AI assistants to optimal results and impact

● Programming skills in AI driven automation and API integrations

● Experience working directly with customers, business stakeholders, and domain experts to co-develop AI solutions

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.