AI Developer - LLM Applications

## Reaktor's award-winning tech community is looking for AI developers to join us in Helsinki. If you thrive on applying cutting-edge AI technologies, building LLM-powered applications, and driving projects through the full software development lifecycle — and you’re passionate about solving real human problems with a holistic approach — we’d love to meet you. Join us to experience a truly collaborative, low-hierarchy environment where your curiosity and ideas can make a real impact. ## As an AI Developer at Reaktor, your job is to be an expert in a range of AI-related software development responsibilities spanning the entire software development lifecycle, from front-end to production. **Your daily tasks include:** - Designing and implementing end-to-end LLM-enabled applications from backend architecture to user-facing components, ensuring scalability and maintainability. - Integrating commercial and open source LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Llama etc.) into production applications and workflows, using APIs or fine-tuning. - Working with end-to-end RAG pipelines, including embeddings, vector databases (e.g. PostgreSQL + pgvector, chromaDB, pinecone), robust prompt engineering strategies and guardrails - Designing and implementing evaluation pipelines to benchmark the model performance and safety - Collaborating with cross-functional teams, contributing to the development of AI use cases to address complex business challenges - Working together with the client’s tech and business teams and helping them to pick the right technologies suitable for their needs. - Delivering the client and the team with world-class technical expertise. - Developing the agentic software development process and ways of working, to better leverage the use of AI. - Other software development-related tasks like contributing to the overall software architecture and design, building test automation and debugging problems. ## You are a curious-minded AI developer who is comfortable working with LLMs, backend, and front-end of an application. Additionally, you understand the role of infrastructure and understand the underlying workings of transformer-based models. ## **To thrive in this position, you’ll need:** - Experience working with AI software development technologies (LLMs, backend, frontend, ops, and consulting skills) in a production environment. - Experience in deploying AI applications in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) - We don’t have a hard limit on years of experience, but we’ve noticed that some of these competencies take several years to accumulate. - Foundational knowledge in DevOps, including Continuous Integration (CI), automated deployment, and test automation. - Know-how on vector databases and databases (e.g., PostgreSQL + pgvector, pgvectorscale, chromaDB, pinecone). - Awareness of data privacy (GDPR), security and ethical considerations when handling sensitive data with AI. - To be comfortable engaging with the client stakeholders when needed. - Fluent verbal & written Finnish and English skills. **RE: Technologies in our projects** - Some projects require proficiency in Python or Node.js/TypeScript, including experience with frameworks like LangChain, FastAPI or LlamaIndex. - Some projects require JVM-based languages. - Our philosophy is that tech is a tool. This role is quite new to the industry and there will be some grey areas when it comes to exact techs in our projects. Do not let lack of a specific technology hinder you from applying to this job. **Why join us?** For two decades, we’ve been developing qualities and capabilities for adapting, reacting, and supporting change – building Reaktor to hold up in a fast-paced environment while ensuring the well-being of our people. At Reaktor, you'll have the opportunity to work across a range of industries, such as Healthcare, the Public Sector, Industrial and Retail. You might also be collaborating with clients in Defense & Security, Aero or Gaming & Entertainment. Read more about the different industries we work with [here](https://www.reaktor.com/services/industries/overview). **While working at Reaktor, we’ll provide you with:** - The ability to impact how you work. Together with the client, your team chooses the approach, technologies, and methodologies you think will work best in any given situation. - A community with as much support as your heart desires. - A team that’s not only experienced but considerate as well – they all want you to succeed. - A sustainable work-life balance and support for your daily life outside of work. (e.g., free moving day, Reaktor car share, sick child care services, office space to use for your private events, etc.). - An opportunity to grow as a professional. In addition to the day-to-day work, we offer internal training courses, community events, and 15-minute coffee breaks to discuss hot topics in tech and design. - A possibility to take part in more extended academy-like studies like Cloud Academy. - 300+ hobby clubs, from winter swimming and running to knitting and archery, that bring people together outside of (and sometimes inside) office hours. Many of these are supported by Reaktor. - Check more about our benefits & perks on [](http://www.reaktor.com/careers) **Diversity, equity, and inclusion** Together, we are committed to making Reaktor an environment that embraces and values all of our employees for the whole of who they are. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, knowing that studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they fully satisfy all of the requirements. If you're thinking twice about applying for this reason, we invite you to send us your application anyway. You could be just the person we're looking for. Read more about our DEI work [here](http://www.reaktor.com/dei). **Interested? Drop us a line – We'll be happy to hear from you!**