Founding AI Engineer
Pubblicato il 26-10-2026 - Akaion in Milano
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 research-only) Build AI systems that go to production, not demos Our Culture At Akaion, we build fast, think big, and execute with purpose. We are a high‑ownership, low‑ego team where great ideas matter — but shipping matters more. We believe in small, elite teams with real autonomy and responsibility, where everyone owns problems end‑to‑end and drives real impact. Speed matters, but quality comes first: we build clean, scalable, production‑ready systems designed to last. Growth is part of the culture — you’ll continuously learn and evolve alongside the company. We operate with a global mindset and a Silicon Valley execution standard: direct communication, high accountability, and fast decision‑making. Compensation Fix compensation + Stock Options