Senior AI Engineer (Databricks)

Location: Hybrid in Budapest, Bartók Béla út, Hungary

Company

hirify.global is a Budapest-based team of 250+ data and technology specialists delivering data engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, application development, data warehousing, business intelligence, and data analytics projects for clients worldwide.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and delivery of production-grade LLM systems, classical ML solutions, scalable LLM services, and agentic workflows.
• Design, evaluate, optimize, and monitor RAG pipelines, including retrieval strategy, chunking, and indexing.
• Define architecture trade-offs across LLM and traditional ML, fine-tuning and RAG, and hosted and self-managed models, optimizing latency, cost, scalability, and reliability.
• Architect and optimize distributed GenAI and ML workloads on Databricks using Spark and MLflow.
• Implement evaluation frameworks for quality, hallucination, and performance, and productionize systems with CI/CD, monitoring, rollback, and versioning.
• Design AI solutions for client problems, lead technical decisions and pre-sales architecture discussions, and mentor team members on GenAI and ML best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Data Science or a related field.
• Proven experience delivering LLM-based systems to production, beyond PoCs, together with experience in classical ML projects.
• Strong hands-on experience with RAG, agents, and open-source LLMs.
• Deep understanding of system-level trade-offs involving latency, cost, scaling, and reliability, with experience optimizing production systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Deep hands-on experience with Databricks and distributed computing with Spark, including performance optimization.
• Experience deploying scalable ML and LLM systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Ability to independently design end-to-end AI solutions for client problems.
• Client-facing experience and openness to participate in pre-sales processes.
• Clear, confident communication in English in technical discussions.

Culture & Benefits

• International projects with clients and partners from around the world, including projects connected with New York, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Scotland.
• Work with advanced technologies on challenging projects.
• Mentoring from the first day and continuous personal and professional development support.
• Learning and development opportunities within a supportive, respectful, and collaborative culture.
• Emphasis on empowerment, work-life balance, and reducing unnecessary meetings and administration.