Lead Engineer, AI Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Engineer, AI Platform based in Switzerland. This role offers the opportunity to lead the engineering foundation behind reliable, measurable, and scalable AI-powered features. You’ll build evaluation frameworks, observability tooling, and diagnostic infrastructure that reveal how AI agents perform in real production environments. The position combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership and people management. You’ll investigate quality issues across complex agent workflows, develop datasets and evaluation systems, and run experiments across models, prompts, and agent architectures. You’ll also help optimize AI systems for cost, latency, reliability, and overall user experience. Working in a highly remote and asynchronous environment, you’ll collaborate closely with AI engineering teams while shaping the technical direction of a growing AI Quality function.