Lead AI/ML Architect

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Company

hirify.global is a Northern European digital transformation partner with approximately 3,000 technologists, delivering Data & AI, software development, digital experiences, and business applications for private and public organizations across the Nordics and Lithuania.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, engineering, and production operation of machine learning and generative AI systems for customers.
• Own the ML platform layer, including training and inference pipelines, deployment automation, model and prompt lifecycles, monitoring, and alerting.
• Define engineering standards, reference architectures, reusable components, and code-quality practices.
• Work directly with customers to shape technical approaches, challenge requirements, and translate business outcomes into system designs.
• Mentor data scientists and engineers and grow ML engineering capability across the Danish team.
• Support AI initiative scoping and pre-sales, evaluate new tools and models, and represent global AI/ML offerings locally.

Requirements

• Several years of hands-on AI and ML engineering experience, including taking multiple models or AI services through production and operating them afterward.
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, code review, packaging, and CI/CD.
• Practical MLOps experience with training and inference pipelines, experiment tracking, model registries, feature reuse, batch, real-time and streaming deployment, monitoring for drift, data quality and model degradation, and automated retraining.
• Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric; AWS or GCP experience is transferable.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or Bicep, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience productionising generative AI, including RAG architectures, orchestration frameworks, prompt and model evaluation, guardrails, and agent development.
• Practical understanding of governance, including lineage, reproducibility, access control, GDPR, and documentation increasingly required by the EU AI Act.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs to customer business stakeholders.
• Leadership through technical direction, mentoring, and raising engineering standards.
• Fluent spoken and written Danish is required.
• Ownership, pragmatism, focus on real-world value, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the ability to increase the capability of colleagues and customer engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Central role in an international and innovative technology and software group.
• Modern offices across 30 locations in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Lithuania.
• Strong social environment with highly engaged employees.
• Flexibility to work from hirify.global offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, or Vilnius at times.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion; candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification.