11 set - Milano
Akaion
We’re looking for a Founding AI Engineer to help build Akaion’s core intelligence layer from day one.You’ll design, ship, and scale production-grade AI systems that power our next-generation products.
Join Akaion and shape the future of our AI-first platform.You’ll work at the intersection of product, research, and engineering to turn cutting-edge AI into real-world impact.
What You’ll Do
Design and build end-to-end AI systems (from data ingestion to production inference)
Develop and deploy LLM-powered agents and multi-agent architectures
Build scalable GenAI services and APIs for product integration
Design prompt engineering, tool calling, function routing, and orchestration layers
Optimize model performance, latency, and cost
Deploy AI workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI, storage, networking)
Build monitoring, logging, evaluation and feedback loops for AI systems
Collaborate directly with product and founding team on roadmap and architecture decisions
What We’re Looking For
Strong experience with Python for AI/ML and backend systems
Hands‑on experience with LLMs, GenAI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDKs or similar)
Experience building RAG systems and vector search pipelines
Knowledge of agent-based architectures and AI orchestration patterns
Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred)
Familiarity with Docker, containerized AI workloads, and scalable deployments
Solid understanding of REST APIs, async systems, and production engineering
Ability to move fast and own systems end-to-end
Nice to Have (Big Plus)
Experience with Vertex AI, HuggingFace, fine‑tuning or model serving
Knowledge of streaming pipelines, data engineering, or MLOps
Experience with evaluation frameworks for LLMs
Background in startup or early‑stage environments
Interest in AI agents, autonomous systems, and AI‑native products
Why Akaion?
You’ll be a founding technical pillar Massive ownership and architectural influence Real product impact (not
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