AI Engineer (Python • Agentic Systems • Vector DB)

Work Modes: Remote (EU-friendly time zones) or On-site with assisted relocation to Iași, Romania (primary) or Riga, Latvia (secondary)
Employment: Full-time
Relocation (on-site track): Full package from Ukraine → EU (legal, housing assistance, transport, equipment)

Why Veido

Veido is a boutique product house building mobility & logistics platforms used by millions—from paratransit operators to modern rideshare. Join a pragmatic, fast-moving engineering culture with teammates (including many from Ukraine) already on-site in world-class offices.

The role (agentic impact)

We’re hiring a Python-first AI Engineer to lead applied-AI initiatives across multiple products. You won’t wait for perfect specs—you’ll engage stakeholders, identify high-ROI use cases, design and ship agentic workflows, and build the data pipelines that turn SQL/warehouse data into smart, retrievable RAG knowledge. Your work will connect to multiple model providers, deliver measurable business outcomes, and set patterns other teams can reuse.

What you’ll do

Product & strategy

• Partner with Product/Operations to discover use cases, write success criteria, and create a lightweight delivery roadmap (pilot → eval → rollout).
• Propose and lead strategic AI implementations across a network of products; drive adoption with clear docs, demos, and enablement.

Agentic systems & orchestration

• Build agent workflows with LangGraph/LangChain (tool use, function calling, structured outputs/JSON schemas, planning/memory, parallel tools, retries/fallbacks).
• Implement a multi-model layer (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Cohere via OpenRouter/LiteLLM) with routing by quality/cost/latency and guardrails.

Retrieval & data pipelines

• Design RAG pipelines: chunking, embeddings, metadata schemas, hybrid BM25+vector, re-rankers, semantic cache.
• Create ingestion from SQL/warehouses and datasets (CSV/JSON, SaaS APIs, PDFs/Office, tickets/email) into vector databases (Pinecone/Weaviate/Qdrant/pgvector), with lineage, PII redaction, and tenancy.

Quality, ops & cost

• Stand up evals (golden sets, offline/online A/B) for faithfulness/groundedness/context fit; add regression gates in CI.
• Add observability (Langfuse/OTel): traces, tool success, latency, and token spend; version prompts and datasets.
• Drive FinOps for AI: caching strategies, prompt design, batching, and model-mix choices for cost/QoS balance.

Delivery surface

• Ship Python (FastAPI) APIs with SSE/WebSockets, auth/RBAC, multi-tenant controls; optional chat/UI hooks (Next.js/Vercel AI SDK).

What you’ll bring

• 2+ years building data/AI or back-end products, including 1+ year shipping LLM apps (agents/RAG).
• Strong Python for services & pipelines (FastAPI, asyncio, pydantic, pytest); TypeScript familiarity is a plus.
• Practical LangChain/LangGraph and vector DB experience (Pinecone/Weaviate/Qdrant/pgvector).
• Integrations with multiple model providers or gateways (OpenRouter/LiteLLM) with routing/fallbacks.
• Evals (Ragas/DeepEval) and observability (Langfuse/OTel) in practice.
• Communicates clearly in English; comfortable leading discovery, writing short design docs, and aligning teams.

Nice to have: re-rankers, OCR/Document AI; Redis/pg for queues/caches; lightweight local trials (Ollama). Infra-heavy ops not required.

Work modes

Remote (Europe-friendly)
• 4+ hours overlap with EET/EEST • good security hygiene • camera-on for key sessions

On-site with relocation (from Ukraine → EU)
• Legal & residence permits: end-to-end guidance; typical onboarding ~1–2 weeks (subject to authorities)
• Housing assistance: support finding accommodation near the office, including deposit/lease help
• Transport & logistics: flight/ground coordination and arrival support
• Equipment & setup: day-1 workstation (latest Mac + monitor) and secure access
• Community: Ukrainian teammates on-site to help you settle quickly

Important: On-site applicants must be ready and eligible to relocate to Iași (primary) or Riga (secondary) per Ukrainian & EU regulations.

We offer

• Competitive salary (top of regional market) with performance-based growth
• Direct collaboration with Product, QA, PM, and engineering leadership—no bureaucracy
• Modern office with great city views; world-class equipment and tools
• Impactful, production-grade AI work in logistics & mobility

How to apply

Send CV/LinkedIn + links (GitHub, notebooks, demos) and include:

• A short note on an agentic or RAG system you led (problem → approach → result/cost/quality)
• Preferred track: Remote or On-site with Relocation
• If On-site: 
  • 1) Iași or Riga? 
  • 2) Earliest relocation date from Ukraine 
  • 3) Legal ability to relocate & work on-site in the EU