Senior AI Engineer - IFS Ultimo

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

This job opening is in the Ultimo team of IFS

Ultimo, an IFS company, is a leading Enterprise Asset Management provider with 2000+ customers worldwide, is transforming its internal operations (Sales, Finance, Marketing, HR, Service, etc.) with “Digital Coworkers” (DC)—intelligent agents that automate routine tasks, forecast outcomes, and integrate seamlessly with our systems and colleagues.

As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll help us speed up the implementation of these DCs and combine strategic vision with hands-on delivery to shape our organization. You’ll own the full development lifecycle of impactful agents, guide architecture decisions, mentor a junior engineer, and help with activities in our AI governance and quality practices.

There is also plenty of opportunity to experiment and develop new ideas and solutions for the organization. You’ll be working with autonomy, accountability, and technical brilliance.

Your Responsibilities

Platform & Architecture

• Advise on overall AI platform design (model hosting, data pipelines, scale-out strategy).
• Define and uphold best practices for model versioning, testing, and monitoring.

Solution Delivery

• Lead design and build of advanced Python-based agents (e.g., multi-step workflows, predictive pipelines, multi-agents).
• Oversee deployment patterns (serverless, container, or hybrid), including CI/CD and release management.
• Leverage LangSmith (or OpenTelemetry), or Azure Monitor for end‑to‑end observability and guardrail enforcement

Governance & Quality

• Review and approve both low-code workflows and custom code against established metrics and dashboards to track performance, drift, and cost.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work closely with business stakeholders to translate use cases into technical designs.
• Mentor an 8n-focused engineer, pairing on key deliverables and reviews.

AI Evangelism & Innovation

• Represent Ultimo’s AI vision internally, help the AI Transformation team run workshops, or initiate initiatives that help transform the organization into an AI-first organization.
• Identify new ideas/technologies that can help us in our purpose and share them with the rest of the team and the organization.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional Python development experience
• Demonstrated history of taking AI/ML projects from prototype to production
• Familiarity with modern deployment patterns (e.g., serverless, containers, managed services)
• Experience integrating with LLM APIs, MCP, building multi-step workflows, and with AI Frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, etc.)
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, configuration management)
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to present complex ideas to non-technical audiences

Nice to have:

• Experience with forecasting or predictive analytics frameworks, cloud-native ML platforms

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.