Swissquote

Financial Services

AIInfrastructureEngineer

$145–195k ~AI est. Gland, Vaud, Switzerland FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“AI Infrastructure Engineer at Swissquote. Skills: Kubernetes, AI Platform, LLM Inference, Platform Engineering. Design distributed LLM inference. Deploy distributed LLM inference”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Incident response

Eligibility Requirements

24x7 on-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years infrastructure/platform engineering, 3+ years production Kubernetes/ML serving, Manage complex IT environments, Regulated industry experience, Kubernetes internals understanding, Container runtimes understanding, Distributed systems understanding, Networking understanding, Cloud-native security understanding, Interpersonal skills

Nice to Have

Hands-on LLM-d experience, vLLM experience, TGI experience, NVIDIA Triton experience, Ray Serve experience, KServe experience, JupyterHub experience, Open WebUI experience, Kubernetes-native agentic frameworks, AI traffic-routing/gateway layers, Agent-registry/catalog patterns, Integrate external LLM providers, Python proficiency, Go proficiency, Rust proficiency, Java proficiency, C++ proficiency, Infrastructure as Code familiarity, Ansible/AAP familiarity, Terraform familiarity, Event streaming familiarity, Apache Kafka familiarity, Observability stacks familiarity

What You'll Do.

Design distributed LLM inference

Deploy distributed LLM inference

Operate distributed LLM inference

Size for tail latency

Size for GPU utilisation

Operate user-facing AI surface

Harden user-facing AI surface

Implement content-safety controls

Implement prompt-injection defense

Implement agentic-workflow audit controls

Implement agent-identity model

Operate Kubernetes control plane

Contribute to multi-cluster management

Instrument platform for performance

Lead incident response

Automate platform provisioning

Automate configuration

Develop architecture documentation

Maintain operational runbooks

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Multi-functional technical teams; Business teams; IT Architects; Observability & Performance Analysts; Cybersecurity function; Systems teams

Full Job Description

Building the bank of tomorrow takes more than skills. It means combining our differences to imagine, discuss, code, develop, test, learn… and celebrate every step together. Share our vibes? Join Swissquote to unleash your potential. We are the Swiss Leader in Online Banking and we provide trading, investing and banking services to +650’000 clients, through our performant and secured digital platforms. Our +1200 employees work in a flexible way, without dress code and in multicultural teams. By having a huge impact on the industry, they are growing their skills portfolio and boosting their career in a fast-pace environment. Have a look behind the scenes by checking [Humans of Swissquote](https://www.instagram.com/humansofswissquote) on Instagram. We are all in at Swissquote. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to join our team and contribute to our shared success. Are you all in? Don’t be shy, apply! You will join the IT Department’s IT Platform Operations team, whose role is to operate the layer between raw infrastructure and the bank’s corporate-facing services: the application-tier middleware fabric, the Kubernetes control plane, and the user-facing surface of the bank’s Sovereign AI Platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in operating Kubernetes-native platform engineering systems at scale, and will lead the integration of open-source AI tooling within a regulated corporate environment while ensuring large language model (LLM) inference scales. Your expertise will help your team deliver the platform on which the bank provides governed access to internal and external AI capabilities — distributed inference, agentic workflows, notebooks, and chatbots — built on top of the GPU and serving substrate provided by the Systems & Storage teams. With your team, you will work closely with IT Architects, Observability & Performance Analysts, the Cybersecurity function and the Systems tea

Free ATS check

Applying for this AI Infrastructure Engineer role?

Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.

How to Apply on SmartRecruiters

  • SmartRecruiters often includes a video screening step — check camera and mic permissions.
  • Link your GitHub or portfolio directly in the profile section for technical roles.
  • Applications may be reviewed by AI scoring before reaching a recruiter — use keywords from the job description.

ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED

What do employees actually say about Swissquote?

Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.

Read Company Rants →