AI Engineer

Job offer

Are you…

• Interested in working for a company that is dedicated to sustainability?
• Interested in developing your career in a leading packaging and printing industry?
• Interested in working for a company that is dedicated to sustainability?

If so, read on!

Esko, a Veralto company, is a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions that accelerate the go-to-market process of packaged goods. Our products empower teams to support and manage the packaging design and print processes for brand owners, retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters to provide the most innovative, integrated platform and comprehensive portfolio of tools that intelligently digitize, connect, automate, and accelerate the concept to market processes for every packaged product.
 
You will be part of a flexible, family friendly organization that cares about its people just as it cares about the environment. We recognize that people come with a wealth ofexperience and talent. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

We are looking for an AI Engineer to support the development and integration of AI solutions using large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic frameworks. This mid-level role is ideal for engineers with a solid foundation in AI/ML and a passion for building intelligent systems.

You will contribute to Esko’s mission of helping brands and suppliers streamline their packaging go-to-market process. Your work will focus on enabling automatic artwork creation, layouting, and simplifying business workflows through AI-powered tools that integrate with existing Esko products. The role is hybrid and it's preferable to have incumbent based in Prague.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Develop and maintain LLM-based components including prompt templates, embeddings, and vector search integrations.
• Assist in building agentic workflows that utilize tools, APIs, and plugins for task execution
• Collaborate with senior engineers to prototype and deploy AI-powered features in production environments
• Integrate and experiment with frameworks like LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar
• Monitor and improve performance, reliability, and safety of deployed AI systems
• Work closely with data scientists, product managers, and platform teams to support AI initiatives across Esko’s packaging solutions

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• Minimum 6 years of IT experience
• 3-4 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, with exposure to Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Strong familiarity with transformer architectures, prompt engineering, and vector databases such as FAISS or Pinecone
• Proficiency in Python, with practical experience using frameworks like Hugging Face Transformers or LangChain
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, cloud-based deployment, and ML model lifecycle management
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Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with agentic frameworks or building simple autonomous workflows.
• Exposure to RAG pipelines or fine-tuning LLMs
• Interest in responsible AI practices and secure model deployment
• Contributions to open-source projects or participation in AI communities

What We Offer:

• Joining a highly experienced and long-established engineering hub in Prague
• Flexibility to shape and grow the MLOps function - you will be our internal expert
• Opportunity to collaborate internationally across multiple product teams
• At Veralto, your potential is amplified. Our culture of continuous improvement defines who we are, drives our success, and translates to a career without limits for our team of curious associates

At Esko, a Veralto Company, innovation comes in every color and never in the same package. Join Esko and see how diversity of people and thought fuels a career journey like no other. Create unique technology solutions for the packaging value chain, bring new ideas to life, make and influence decisions, and experience career growth, rewards, and recognition in our global Packaging & Color organizations.

Esko is proud to be a Product Quality & Innovation company in Veralto (NYSE: VLTO). Imagine a world where everyone has access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. That is the tomorrow Veralto is creating today. Veralto is a $5B global leader in essential technology solutions made up of over 16,000 associates across our Water Quality and Product Identification segments all united by a powerful purpose: Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources.