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 Poland.

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?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Flexibility: Enjoy flexibility – full remote working possibilities
• Care: We've got you covered with company-paid premium medical package through Luxmed
• Benefits: Access the MyBenefit cafeteria platform, allowing you to choose perks that best suit your lifestyle and needs

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 Wrocław and Gdańsk, our 300+ professionals in Poland drive forward-thinking solutions for global clients. Join a community where collaboration sparks innovation—and your impact reaches millions.

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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