Helsinki, Finland (Remote within Europe possible)
About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing, well-funded startup building a next-generation, AI-native platform that redefines how digital experiences are created in gaming. The product empowers non-technical users to create complex interactive content through AI—removing traditional barriers like coding.
They operate at the cutting edge of AI and product development, combining creativity, engineering, and advanced language models. Our team is small, highly hands-on, and fully committed to an AI-first way of working.
About the Role
We are looking for an AI Engineer to help push the boundaries of what AI systems can do in production.
This is not a traditional engineering role. You’ll work in an AI-native environment, where most code is generated with AI tools and your focus is on orchestrating, improving, and scaling intelligent systems rather than writing everything manually.
You will play a key role in improving core AI capabilities; making systems faster, cheaper, and more powerful.
What We’re Looking For
- AI-native mindset — you actively use AI tools in your daily workflow
- Builders who have gone beyond prompting and actually built things with AI
- Curiosity and passion for pushing AI capabilities further
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration
- A strong bias toward action and experimentation
What You’ll Do
- Improve and optimize AI-driven systems (e.g., make them faster, more cost-efficient, and higher quality)
- Design, build, and iterate on AI agents
- Fine-tune and adapt open-source language models for specific use cases
- Deploy and manage models in production environments
- Work on backend systems that integrate AI models into a scalable product
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering to enhance core capabilities
- Experiment with the latest AI tools, frameworks, and workflows
- Contribute across the stack when needed in a small, high-impact team
What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months)
- Significantly improve performance of core AI systems
- Deliver measurable improvements in output quality and reliability
- Successfully deploy and iterate on fine-tuned models or agents
- Take ownership of key technical challenges with minimal supervision
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with AI/ML, especially LLMs
- Experience with:
- Fine-tuning models/
- Building AI agents /
- Deploying AI systems in production
- Solid backend engineering background
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience working with cloud environments and APIs
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, unstructured environment
Nice-to-have:
- Experience with TypeScript or modern web stacks
- Background in game development or interactive systems
- Familiarity with model optimization techniques (e.g., pruning, efficiency tuning)
- Experience working with open-source models
- Active GitHub or portfolio demonstrating real AI projects
Benefits
- Competitive salary (flexible based on experience)
- Equity / stock options
- Work on cutting-edge AI technology with real impact
- Small team, high ownership, no bureaucracy
- Flexible work setup (Helsinki-based or remote within Europe)
- Opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered creation tools