Location: Remote
Employment type: Long-term contractor engagement (full-time)
Team: Embedded with our client’s engineering team
About SynlogIQ
SynlogIQ helps enterprises become AI-ready. We fix the data and engineering foundations — platform engineering, data engineering, the Microsoft stack, agentic AI, and custom software — so AI actually works in production, not just in a demo.
SynlogIQ engineers come from across Southeast Europe — eight countries that share your working day, carry a register that holds up in the boardroom, and draw on a craft tradition that runs deep.
Engineering talent, embedded
Alongside our project work, we place senior engineers directly inside client engineering teams — people who own their work, think in systems, and raise the standard of the teams they join. The role below is one of those engagements: you would be embedded with a client’s engineering team as part of a long-term contractor partnership through SynlogIQ.
About the role
We’re looking for an AI Engineer to build production-grade AI applications for an enterprise client. Your focus won’t be training foundation models. Instead, you’ll design and build intelligent products that combine LLMs, agentic workflows, APIs, tools, and external systems into reliable, scalable, production-ready solutions — well beyond simple prompt-and-response.
Working with product managers, software engineers, and data scientists, you’ll ship AI-powered features that create measurable business value.
What you’ll do
- Design and build applications powered by LLMs (OpenAI, open-weight models)
- Build agentic workflows with planning, memory, and tool use
- Develop prompt-engineering and evaluation strategies
- Integrate AI with APIs, databases, vector stores, and external services
- Improve the reliability, performance, and observability of production AI systems
- Experiment with new models and frameworks to keep improving solutions
What we’re looking for
- 2–5 years in software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI
- Strong Python (async, APIs, data pipelines)
- Experience building production-grade LLM applications
- Familiarity with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
- Solid grasp of prompt engineering, tokenisation, and model limitations
- Experience with cloud platforms, APIs, and modern engineering practices (testing, versioning, CI/CD)
- Comfortable debugging non-deterministic, unpredictable AI systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Nice to have
- Open-source LLMs and model hosting (vLLM, Hugging Face)
- Vector databases
- AI evaluation frameworks (automated and human-in-the-loop)
- Optimising latency, cost, and reliability of LLM systems
- Voice AI (text-to-speech, speech-to-text, orchestration)
- Knowledge of AI safety and security
- Clear communication of complex AI behaviour to non-technical stakeholders
Why join
- Build real AI products, not demos
- Solve hard, real-world engineering problems
- Work with experienced engineers and AI specialists
- Influence product direction with modern AI technology, fully remote