Middle AI Engineer (GenAI Deployment)

Location: Lviv, Ukraine

Company

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building and deploying AI co-workers and enterprise AI systems for clients across multiple industries.

What you will do

• Productionize and deploy GenAI agents into client cloud environments, using Azure as the primary platform and AWS for selected components.
• Own MCP server architecture and deployment, including hosting decisions, Docker-based containerization, and resilience improvements.
• Containerize and deploy FastAPI-style prediction-serving APIs that wrap machine learning models.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines for agent and API deployments in GitHub Enterprise.
• Configure Azure ML workspaces, provision compute, troubleshoot quotas and capacity, and manage access.
• Implement logging, health checks, alerting, and deployment architecture documentation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on exposure to AI/ML systems and generative AI development.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with Python or a similar language.
• Hands-on Docker and containerization experience, including designing deployment architectures from scratch.
• Experience with Azure services such as App Service, Container Apps, and ML workspaces, and/or AWS services including EC2 and ECS.
• Production experience deploying and operating LLM-based agents or GenAI applications.
• Familiarity with MCP or comparable agent-tool orchestration patterns, CI/CD, GitHub Enterprise, Azure AD/SSO, and enterprise client environments.

Nice to have

• MLOps experience with model versioning, drift monitoring, or retraining pipelines.
• Azure SQL or data-engineering-adjacent experience.
• Consulting or client-services experience and comfort with ambiguity and shifting scope.
• Experience building demand-prediction models from historical data.

Culture & Benefits

• 20 days of paid vacation and 15 days of unpaid vacation.
• All official public holidays off and 5 paid sick days without a doctor’s certificate.
• Medical insurance.
• Military draft deferment and reservation support.
• Cooperation under a gig-contract.
• Remote-friendly and collaborative environment with cross-functional engineering, design, and strategy teams.