Senior GenAI Engineer

About Us

The LGT is the world's largest private banking and asset management group owned by a family of entrepreneurs. As the family office of the Princely House of Liechtenstein, we impress with many years of experience in managing large assets.

Your Responsibilities

Your role at LGT

As a Senior GenAI Engineer in Data Analytics, you are a key member of LGT's GenAI team in Zurich, developing production-ready generative applications together with business and engineering teams.

You will conceptualize and develop scalable GenAI solutions end-to-end with a clear focus on software quality, architecture, and maintainability. You will work on modern AI applications, agentic workflows, model orchestration, and enterprise integrations to reliably bring innovative use cases into production.

As a senior member of the team, you will help shape architecture and engineering standards, take on mentoring responsibilities, and contribute to further expanding AI engineering capabilities within LGT. The role requires strong hands-on engineering skills, sound technical judgment, and the ability to deliver high-quality solutions in a regulated environment.

Tasks

• Design, development, and operation of production-ready GenAI applications end-to-end
• Development of robust RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM-based solutions
• Integration of GenAI solutions into enterprise systems, APIs, and internal data sources
• Use of effective prompt engineering and model orchestration to implement reliable AI systems
• Steering solution architecture, technical decisions, and engineering standards to scale AI Engineering at LGT
• Writing high-quality, well-tested code and applying modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, version control, automated testing)
• Collaboration with business units to translate requirements into GenAI solutions and communicate technical concepts understandably
• Contribution to shared platform components, evaluation, and LLMOps practices, and knowledge sharing to strengthen GenAI engineering capabilities within the team

Your Profile

• University degree (Bachelor or higher) in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software development with demonstrable production experience, including at least 3 years in agile teams
• Very good programming skills in Python and solid software engineering fundamentals (design patterns, testing, clean code)
• Practical experience in developing GenAI/LLM applications, including RAG, with modern frameworks and APIs (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI API), and vector databases
• Experience in designing and developing APIs and backend services (e.g., FastAPI) and solid DevOps knowledge: CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, containerization, and deployment automation
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to explain technical matters appropriately to the audience
• Very good English skills

Nice-to-have

• Experience in the financial services sector or another regulated industry
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and major cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS)
• Experience with LLMOps and evaluation frameworks for GenAI applications, and familiarity with MCP and frameworks like FastMCP
• Experience with observability and monitoring of production systems, as well as with asynchronous or event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka)
• German language skills are an advantage

Benefits at LGT

A great place to work - a great place to have impact:

LGT promotes the diversity of its employees. We believe that an inclusive and appreciative corporate culture is the driver for a great workplace and offers the opportunity to create a unique and successful team. That's why our employees can also benefit from many additional benefits.

Family and Work

• Flexible working models
• Sabbaticals
• Minimum 25 days annual leave, depending on age
• Options for paid special leave
• Maternity and paternity leave, options for additional parental leave
• Additional childcare allowance for paid external childcare for children up to 12 years old

Growing Together

• Internal courses
• External courses at the Liechtenstein Academy
• Support for external training and further education
• Coaching and mentoring programs
• International assignments
• Intrapreneurship program

Discounts and Benefits

• Discounts on LGT bank products and services
• Co-investments