AI Software Engineer (w/m/d) 80-100%

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Zürich

Swiss Life AG

We are looking for a pragmatic, solution-oriented AI Software Engineer who implements strategic business projects into production-ready Agentic-AI solutions in dynamic, interdisciplinary teams. You think from the business problem perspective and combine solid software engineering with autonomous AI architectures and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) to deliver reliable, operational software with tangible added value.

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Your area of responsibility

• Take end-to-end engineering ownership in focused, interdisciplinary projects: from requirement clarification and architecture to testable, deployable, and operations-ready production services (including observability, SLOs, and runbooks)
• Design and orchestrate stateful multi-agent workflows, tool integrations (MCP, A2A, enterprise APIs), hybrid retrieval/memory pipelines, as well as recursive self-improvement (RSI) loops with reliable guardrails
• Work directly with business stakeholders, domain experts, architects, and engineers to understand the actual business problems at their core, translate them into pragmatic solutions, and continuously develop them using automated evals and user feedback
• Build and operate cloud-native services as well as CI/CD and evaluation pipelines with GitHub and Azure, and actively share best practices and engineering standards across teams

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Your strengths

• At least 5 years of professional experience in professional software engineering with a focus on resilient, production-ready systems in agile, interdisciplinary teams; practical experience in the development and production deployment of agentic AI systems (multi-agent orchestration, tool use, MCP, state/memory management, RSI patterns, and agentic RAG)
• Sound practical knowledge of current frontier reasoning, multimodal, and open-weight models (OpenAI GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, DeepSeek etc.) including context engineering, model routing, structured outputs, as well as automated evals and tracing
• Strong software engineering and cloud-native skills (Python and/or TypeScript as well as .NET/C# and ASP.NET Core for enterprise backends) on Azure and Kubernetes using Azure AI Foundry and GitHub (GitHub Actions, Copilot)
• Solid understanding of enterprise AI security, data protection, and governance (least-privilege agent permissions, sandboxed execution, prompt injection defense, auditability)
• Solution-oriented, communicative, and team-oriented personality who quickly grasps business requirements, develops innovative solutions with AI-native workflows, and creates measurable added value; enjoyment of interdisciplinary collaboration, cross-skilling, and mentoring completes your profile

Your contact

Petra Bärtsch

Talent Acquisition Partner

About Swiss Life

With our individual pension and financial advisory services, we accompany people in all situations of life in preparing their financial future and support them in shaping their lives with financial self-determination.

For recruitment agencies

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Any responsibility for unsolicited applications as well as any fees/costs incurred is declined. Thank you for your understanding.