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: [email protected]

last updated 37 week of 2026