AI Engineer (Python)

Location: Hybrid work environment in Belgrade, Serbia

Company

hirify.global operates digital marketplaces across real estate, automotive, general marketplaces, and finance and insurance, including Homegate and ImmoScout24.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable LLM-powered applications, including chatbots, RAG systems, summarization, classification, and evaluation pipelines.
• Own generative AI solutions from prototyping and architecture through deployment, monitoring, scaling, and continuous improvement.
• Integrate LLMs with internal data using retrieval techniques, embeddings, vector search, and search infrastructure.
• Build reliable ML and GenAI pipelines covering data ingestion, model orchestration, evaluation, deployment, observability, and alerting.
• Develop production-grade Python APIs, services, and integrations for internal and customer-facing products.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product stakeholders, and business teams to define objectives, metrics, and production requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with an ML or AI background.
• Strong Python skills and experience writing clean, performant, testable, and maintainable code.
• Experience deploying and operating ML, AI, or LLM-based systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, GenAI APIs, and frameworks such as OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Hugging Face.
• Experience with MLOps or LLMOps, cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, APIs, CI/CD, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and incident handling.
• Fluent English, written and spoken, is required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and search systems.
• Experience with large, heterogeneous datasets and recommendation, prediction, fraud, or classification systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with a focus on work-life balance and employee happiness.
• 25 vacation days per year and private health insurance.
• Free LinkedIn Learning and an annual personal development budget.
• Profit Growth Scheme, company phone, gym membership, local discounts, and other fringe benefits.
• International, collaborative workplace with team activities and a comfortable office in Belgrade.

Hiring process

• Apply with a CV in English and optionally provide additional supporting documents.