Senior AI Engineer

• Join the AI Platform Team as a Senior AI Platform Engineer focused on Security & Governance, defining and implementing the guardrails, privacy patterns, and governance mechanisms that allow AI adoption to scale responsibly across Awin. • Work on the safety and control layer of AI development including AI security patterns, PII handling guidance, provider and model governance, and reusable guardrails. • Build internal platforms and paved roads that raise the engineering quality bar for AI development across the organisation.

• Hold strong software engineering fundamentals with experience working on production systems. • Bring practical experience in security, governance, privacy, compliance, or risk-related engineering work. • Demonstrate clear hands-on experience applying those controls to AI- or LLM-powered systems. • Show a strong understanding of AI-specific risks including privacy exposure, PII handling, unsafe outputs, provider and model risk, and misuse patterns. • Translate policy or risk requirements into practical engineering controls, patterns, or defaults. • Understand how to make AI systems observable, auditable, and safer to operate in production. • Have good practical experience with Python and/or JavaScript or TypeScript. • Work effectively with engineers, architects, and non-engineering stakeholders such as Security or Legal. • Communicate strongly both synchronously and asynchronously and work comfortably through ambiguity.

• Have experience designing or implementing guardrails for AI or LLM-powered systems. • Bring experience with AI governance automation, readiness gates, policy checks, or preflight validation patterns. • Show familiarity with tracing, auditability, and logging standards for AI systems. • Demonstrate familiarity with evaluation workflows, regression checks, and production readiness practices for AI. • Have experience assessing third-party AI providers or model usage from a risk or governance perspective. • Bring experience with privacy-by-design patterns in data-sensitive systems. • Hold experience working in regulated or higher-risk environments. • Show experience writing clear developer guidance and turning repeated risk questions into reusable standards.

• Define and improve practical guardrails and safe defaults for AI-powered systems. • Help shape Awin's approach to privacy, PII handling, and data-safe patterns for AI workflows. • Contribute to approved provider and model guidance including practical validation and usage expectations. • Work with engineers to translate policy, risk, and governance needs into reusable platform patterns and engineering controls. • Help define production-ready expectations for AI systems from a safety, governance, and risk perspective. • Contribute to readiness checks, automated validations, and scalable governance mechanisms that reduce reliance on manual approval processes. • Improve logging, tracing, and observability practices so AI systems are auditable and safer to operate. • Partner with Security, Legal, Architecture, and product engineering teams to ensure standards are practical and proportionate. • Write clear documentation, patterns, and guidance that help teams apply standards consistently. • Mentor others and help raise the team's overall maturity in AI safety, governance, and privacy-aware engineering.

• Work a four-day Flexi-Week at full pay with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week and no reduction to annual holiday allowance. • Work in a flexible hybrid/remote scheme across Awin regions from Amsterdam, Berlin, Hannover, Iași, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, or Warsaw. • Receive a monthly work expense contribution and a remote working furniture package. • Access health and wellbeing initiatives and sports offers. • Develop through the Awin Academy training suite covering professional and personal growth. • Recognise colleagues through a peer-to-peer voucher programme.

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