Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer to join our team full-time in the Czech Republic.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. 

We are looking for an experienced AI Consultant to take over the lead role on a running engagement with a global FMCG / consumer health client. The project delivers a multi-agent GenAI system that ideates and validates new product concepts for the client's R&D organization, drawing on product, consumer, and production data (~74k ingested knowledge chunks across a factual SQL plane and a semantic vector plane).

The system is in active PoC delivery with a defined go-live plan, an evaluation framework (golden-question benchmark + SME-mimicking judge panel), and a pilot with the client's Product Research team scheduled for late August. You will own the engagement end to end: client relationship, solution direction, and delivery, working with a senior AI engineer and the client's R&D, data, and consumer-research stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Own the client relationship: run alignment workshops, steer expectations, and translate stakeholder feedback (R&D engineering, consumer research, brand/GM) into scoped backlog items
• Drive the solution architecture of the 4-agent system (Discovery, Ideation, Validation, Orchestration & Synthesis) — agent design, retrieval strategy, validation gates, human-in-the-loop flows
• Lead the evaluation program: golden-question benchmark runs, pass/fail calibration with SMEs, blind idea-quality reviews against human baselines
• Manage delivery against the PoC plan and pilot milestones; prepare and present decision-ready material (architecture overviews, coverage matrices, roadmaps) at executive level
• Identify and shape follow-on opportunities (Phase 2: conversational layer, scaled evaluation, additional data sources)

Requirements:

• 5+ years in AI/data consulting or applied AI delivery, with proven client-facing lead experience in enterprise settings
• Hands-on understanding of LLM application architecture: multi-agent systems, RAG (hybrid dense + keyword retrieval, vector stores such as pgvector), prompt design, and LLM evaluation/benchmarking
• Ability to bridge business and engineering: comfortable challenging both a data scientist's retrieval setup and a brand manager's success criteria
• Strong workshop facilitation and executive communication skills; able to condense SME interviews and technical detail into clear decision material
• Fluent English required; German is a strong plus. Background in R&D, innovation management, or consumer goods is a plus
• You inherit a well-documented, technically de-risked engagement at its most interesting phase — turning a working pipeline into a validated, expert-trusted ideation tool — with a clear path to a larger Phase 2

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working hours
• Home office option
• 5 weeks of holiday
• 5 sick days
• Multisport Card
• Meal allowance
• Internal trainings including workshops and seminars
• Paid certifications and technical as well as soft-skills training
• Possibility to participate in international conferences
• Fresh fruit, coffee, and a weekly company breakfast in the office
• Loyalty bonus after 5, 10, 15 and more years with the company
• Referral bonus programme
• Corporate events including team building, outdoor activities, Christmas party, health week, summer ice cream, and more
• Hybrid and remote working options available across our Czech offices in Prague, Hradec Králové, and Zlín

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

With delivery centers in Prague, Hradec Králové, and Zlín, our Czech team delivers end-to-end solutions across industries. Here, innovation thrives through collaboration, and every idea drives our partners' success.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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