Principal AI Engineer

Our hearts are burning for sport in all its facets and for the many opportunities that the digital world brings with it. MATCHi, the leading racket sports booking platform in the Nordics joined forces with Eversports, and together we now form the Eversports Group, an international, dynamic team that shares one big mission: "Make Sports Happen."
For more insight into our history, incredible team and products, check out our "About Us" page on our website!

Overview

Join Eversports as our new Principal AI Engineer! In this role you will act as the senior technical voice of the AI team, owning architectural decisions where the AI Lead defers to you, and setting the technical bar for how AI applications get built, evaluated, and operated across the Eversports Group. You will work at the intersection of retrieval, permissioning, model infrastructure, and evaluation, while mentoring senior engineers and partnering closely with Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Platform Engineering.

Work time: Full-time (35h/week, every second Friday off!)
Planned start: Immediately
Location: VIENNA, Austria
Working style: Hybrid (2-3 times per week on-site)

Your Tasks

• Own architectural decisions in the categories the AI Lead defers on.
• Lead the design and build of permission enforcement at retrieval time.
• Design and operate the model gateway as platform-grade infrastructure.
• Establish evaluation methodology, benchmarks, and the "ready to ship" bar for AI applications.
• Mentor the other senior engineers and run technical reviews.
• Partner with the Data team's senior engineers on the semantic layer interface.
• Engage with Security, Legal, Compliance, and Platform Engineering as the AI team's senior technical voice.
• Contribute to hiring of subsequent engineers.
• Operate AI team-built components and carry on-call responsibility.

Your Profile

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with deep hands-on experience delivering production LLM/AI application systems (multiple systems shipped and operated), or a strong retrieval, evaluation, model-infrastructure, search, or data-platform background with a demonstrated transition to production LLM delivery.
• Demonstrated depth in at least two of the following: permission-aware retrieval over enterprise data, evaluation methodology for LLM applications, model infrastructure or gateways at production scale, agent or workflow infrastructure, knowledge-graph construction.
• Production RAG experience: tuned, evaluated, and operated under real load, not just an out-of-the-box setup.
• Experience building auth-aware or permission-aware data systems of meaningful complexity.
• Architectural authorship, ADRs or equivalent that have survived scrutiny.
• Solid production cloud experience is required. AWS with Bedrock is strongly preferred, as the group standardises on AWS, Snowflake, and dbt.
• On-call experience for production AI or data systems.
• Strong written communication, comfortable producing ADRs and technical reviews.
• Current, hands-on coding fluency.
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to have:

• Experience as the senior technical counterpart to a peer Data or Platform team.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Snowflake, and dbt, or comparable infrastructure.
• Familiarity with the commercial state of the art in enterprise retrieval (Glean, Notion AI Enterprise, vector database platforms, evaluation tooling)

What's in it for you?

At Eversports, transparency is key. We are pleased to offer a minimum annual gross salary of EUR 80.000 for a full-time 35-hour week, with potential adjustments based on position and experience level.

• Work smarter, not longer: our full-time week is 35 hours, and one day off every second week
• Work in the office located in the heart of one of most liveable cities, that waits for you to bring out the best of it
• Stay active with a monthly sports budget, try a new class, play your favourite sport, or simply move the way you love
• Take time to explore what inspires you during our quarterly "Day to Explore"
• Work with modern equipment, every team member gets a MacBook to perform at their best
• Join our regular sports sessions, team activities, and events, we work hard, but we also play
• Be part of a passionate, international, and sporty team that believes work should feel meaningful and fun!

At Eversports we acknowledge and value the strength in diversity which is why we have +200 employees from over 25 different countries. Alongside our strong value for diversity is our emphasis on respect towards others. Every employee has a voice and the opportunity to contribute towards developing our company. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of your gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexual orientation.