AI Engineer

Ivy Partners is a Swiss consulting firm that supports companies in addressing their strategic, technological and organizational challenges.

We are committed to offering our employees a career that fosters personal and professional growth. We support them in developing their skills and provide genuine opportunities for advancement.

• Assess the technical feasibility of selected customer use cases and estimate the effort required to deliver production-near solutions.
• Compare delivery approaches, from personal assistance to full automation, and define where automation should be limited.
• Design how AI agents, tools and people work together, including tool calls, permissions, logging, human oversight and override mechanisms.
• Build an end-to-end, production-near prototype for approved use cases alongside architecture and integration colleagues.
• Contribute to technical testing and evaluation, ensuring AI behavior is traceable and controlled.
• Define controls and approval processes for changes to models, prompts and knowledge bases. Ensure client data is never used for training and AI changes receive written approval.

• You have 5 to 8 years of experience in software or machine learning engineering, including at least one production-near agentic or large language model solution.
• You have hands-on experience with large language model frameworks, tool calling, retrieval and evaluation methods.
• You have strong Python and API skills and experience integrating with enterprise systems.
• You understand Swiss data protection requirements, the General Data Protection Regulation and the principles of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act.
• You have experience in a regulated environment, ideally in insurance or finance.
• You have strong German and French skills and can explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• You are based in or near Bern and available to work on site.

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