AI Engineer (m/f/d)

85441 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Services | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our global footprint, with more than 7,300 employees located across ten countries and four continents, enables us to unlock value for our partners across the insurance value chain and deliver superior client experience within Allianz Group. At Allianz Services, we have a strong specialization in core insurance operations, shared services, business analytics, engineering, and management consulting. Our people and our trusted relationships with partners are what matter most. These are rooted in our values of compassion, integrity, and expertise and we strive to continuously evolve, improve, and deliver excellence while contributing successfully to the transformation of Allianz. Caring actively for the environment, for people, and for our customers is what makes us a great place to work and together we are shaping a better and more caring tomorrow.
Allianz Services is a company which belongs to the legal entity, Allianz Technology SE.  

Role overview 

Are you passionate about AI and eager to see how it transforms the world’s leading insurance brand? Join Allianz Services as an AI Engineer (m/f/d) and dive into groundbreaking AI projects within our Data Analytics Solutions team. Collaborate with a dynamic, international team to design, build, and productionize agentic AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes. Partner closely with the Business Owner to translate goals into working agentic solutions with clear SLAs, governance, and ROI to truly “Make AI Happen.” 

What you do:

•  Design and implement cutting-edge ML models and LLM-powered applications, focusing on robust system design, RAG architectures, and complex workflow automation.
• Architect and implement agentic AI solutions end-to-end: task decomposition, planning, tool-use/function-calling, memory/state management, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Develop and deploy a diverse range of models, transitioning seamlessly between classical machine learning (e.g., LightGBM, XGBoost, Scikit-Learn) for structured data and state-of-the-art LLMs for unstructured text and generative tasks.
• Design comprehensive evaluation frameworks and feedback loops, including offline/online testing, regression suites, and human-in-the-loop systems to ensure model accuracy and reliability.
• Create secure and robust integrations between AI models and internal APIs, databases, and SaaS systems, ensuring strict authorization and scoped access.
• Optimize AI services for latency, reliability, and cost-efficiency using techniques like caching, streaming, batching, and circuit breakers.
• Implement enterprise-grade security measures, including prompt injection defenses, comprehensive audit logging, and compliance with data privacy standards.
• Partner with Data Scientists, Platform Engineers, and Product Managers to turn conceptual models into shipping enterprise capabilities.
• Write high-quality, testable code and maintain CI/CD pipelines; produce clear technical documentation and operational runbooks to ensure long-term maintainability.

What you bring:

• 3–5 years of professional experience delivering end-to-end ML or LLM projects, moving from initial data preparation to production deployment and monitoring.
• Expert-level Python programming and software engineering fundamentals (unit testing, type hinting, packaging, and asynchronous programming).
• A solid understanding of the machine learning product lifecycle and hands-on experience with MLOps practices.
• Practical experience with LLM orchestration frameworks: PydanticAI (preferred), LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI or equivalent. 
• Proficiency in CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred), with hands-on experience with MS AI Foundry and MosaicAI.
• Experience implementing service monitoring, including structured logging, tracing, and performance metrics.
• A demonstrable ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams and the self-motivation to drive delivery within an agile environment.
• We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.

What we offer:

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer.
We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.
Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural Internal background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
 
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.