About this Senior AI Engineer role at Unum
Our Story
Unum Technology Centre in Carlow serves as a strategic software development and IT services centre supporting Unum, a leading provider of income protection in the US. Our team of IT professionals build solutions and critical business applications to digitally transform the way we do business.
As a senior member of the team, you will play a key role in designing AI architectures, developing intelligent applications, and establishing best practices that advance our AI capabilities across the enterprise.
The Role
- Design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI and Machine Learning solutions, including Generative AI and LLM-powered applications.
- Build AI solutions using modern architectures such as RAG, AI Agents, vector search, and enterprise knowledge assistants.
- Develop and optimize AI applications on AWS using services such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and S3.
- Lead the implementation of robust MLOps and LLMOps practices, including model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- Design and develop APIs, integrations, and cloud-native services that enable AI capabilities across the business.
- Ensure AI solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with responsible AI and governance standards.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, data scientists, and engineering teams while mentoring colleagues and promoting engineering best practice
What You Offer
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, AI Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience delivering production AI and Machine Learning solutions in cloud environments.
- Strong Python development skills and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, LangChain, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, including LLMs, RAG architectures, AI Agents, or vector search technologies.
- Experience designing and supporting MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, CI/CD automation, and model lifecycle management.
- Strong AWS experience, including services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and S3.
- Experience with modern software engineering practices, including APIs, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
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What We Offer
Our size and successful history in Carlow means we can offer you exceptional development and progression, supported by continual learning programs, IT Certifications & third level tuition reimbursement. We offer work-life-balance with flexible working arrangements (including hybrid) and initiatives in support of your well-being. Our attractive range of benefits and reward initiatives includes competitive compensation, 25 days annual leave, paid health insurance, pension scheme, annual performance-based bonus, paid maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, reward programs, and an opportunity to engage with charity and community activities.
Company:
Unum
