Senior AI Platform System Engineer

About the role

IMTF Group, a Swiss RegTech company focused on Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Fraud, is looking for a Senior AI Platform System Engineer in its Research and Development department. The workplace is hybrid, and the role builds and maintains AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise software.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain scalable, secure and reliable AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise software running on Kubernetes and microservices.
• Develop reusable frameworks and components for AI model training and inference across customer environments.
• Build and maintain automated MLOps pipelines for training, testing, deployment and monitoring using MLflow and Spark.
• Integrate AI/ML services with backend systems, event-driven architectures, APIs and data pipelines using Kafka, gRPC and REST.
• Optimize model deployment and serving for performance, latency, throughput and resource usage, including isolated environments with limited connectivity and varying GPU availability.
• Improve platform architecture, deployment automation, Helm charts and DevOps workflows in line with ISO 27001 requirements.
• Support customer deployments with technical design input, configuration guidance and training.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Platform Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML platform engineering.
• 2+ years deploying AI/ML platforms in isolated or non-SaaS environments, ideally in production.
• Strong software engineering skills, with clean, maintainable, testable and secure code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Required skills

• Kubernetes, distributed systems, data engineering and AI/ML platforms including Spark and vLLM or similar.
• MLOps, including automated model training, testing, deployment and monitoring; familiarity with MLflow and PyTorch expected.
• Nice to have: experience in anti-financial crime (AML, CTF, sanctions, fraud), military and defense or law enforcement; familiarity with TensorFlow, ONNX, Delta Lake, SparkML, Ray and Helm.

What we offer

• Contribution to a leading RegTech company in Switzerland.
• International exposure working with global clients in a multicultural team.
• Flexible work environment with hybrid work and flexible hours.