Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.
KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.
KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.
KONE R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies, across hardware and software engineering. In fact, roughly half of our R&D roles are in software. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment.
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We are now looking for
Senior Lead SW Developer, AI/ML Engineering, Digital Services, SW
Join our Digital Services, SW organization in Espoo or Hyvinkää, Finland, where we build and operate platforms and solutions across IoT Platform, Digital Services, and Analytics Platform. Our teams develop scalable cloud-native systems enabling connected fleets, remote monitoring, intelligent maintenance, and AI-driven experiences. We work in a hybrid model so there’s possibility to work remotely couple of days a week.
As a Senior Lead SW Developer, AI/ML Engineering you will play a key role in bringing AI and Generative AI capabilities into production-grade digital services. The role combines software engineering, data platforms, and applied AI, enabling you to work across multiple use cases and projects within KONE Digital Services.
What you’ll do
Design and develop AI-enabled features and services across digital platforms
Integrate AI/ML and Generative AI models into backend systems and applications
Build and maintain end-to-end AI solutions (data pipelines → model → APIs → production systems)
Evaluate and experiment with different AI models and architectural approaches (e.g., prompt-based, retrieval-based, fine-tuning where applicable)
Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable in production environments
Deploy, monitor, and optimize services in AWS cloud platforms
Collaborate across software, data, and product teams to deliver impactful solutions
What we’re looking for
Experience in software development with Python
Hands-on experience with AI/ML and Generative AI (prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG concepts, Guardrails & Evals, Agentic AI)
Experience building APIs and integrating services into production environments
Familiarity in building vector databases in AWS
Familiarity in building observability in Generative AI solutions
Familiarity with AWS Cloud & Key Services (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Bedrock, OpenSearch)
Knowledge of databases and data processing (SQL/NoSQL)
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Nice to have
Experience working with data platforms such as Databricks (or similar)
Background in data science, analytics, or applied machine learning
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or microservices architectures
For additional information, please contact Chapter Lead, Maintenance Experience Markus Mettälä [email protected]
We offer
You will be working with highly dynamic teams significantly investing time and effort on how we develop our products, services, and solutions. You get a chance to work with and participate in further developing products that are used by billions of users daily. Products that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation.
Want to join the #PeopleFlow?
If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers site https://careers.kone.com/en/find-jobs latest by June 23rd, 2026.
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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
Skills Required
- Experience in software development with Python
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML and Generative AI
- Experience building APIs and integrating services into production environments
- Familiarity in building vector databases in AWS
- Familiarity with AWS Cloud & Key Services
- Knowledge of databases and data processing (SQL/NoSQL)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience working with data platforms such as Databricks
- Background in data science, analytics, or applied machine learning
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or microservices architectures
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
