Position Description

AI Engineer – Generative AI Applications
Office locationBasel
DepartmentGeneral Secretariat
Application Deadline02/06/2025
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Remarks: The Bank’s management are supportive of internal mobility. This position is open to staff on both open-ended and fixed-term contracts. Staff members on open-ended contracts applying to this position will maintain their underlying open-ended employment status in case they are selected.
Job Category: E
Office Location: Basel
Department: General Secretariat
Unit: Information Technology and Services
Service:
Line Manager: Hiren Jani
Employment - Duration: 3 years
Contract Type: Fixed-term
FTE%: 100
HR Recruiter: Cara Moisescu
Position ID: 2394
Application Deadline: 02/06/2025

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is seeking a dynamic AI Engineer to join our Data & Analytics team.

This role is based in Basel, Switzerland however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities and located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members.

Purpose of the role:

Our mission is to support central banks' pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international partnership and to act as a bank for central banks.

You will contribute to this mission as a member of the ITS Data & Analytics team, which is responsible for data and analytics platforms and applications for the bank. The team is expanding to deliver cutting-edge AI applications, and you will play a key role in this exciting new initiative. Your expertise in building AI applications will be crucial in delivering high-priority AI use cases.

By joining the Data & Analytics team, you will:

       Help shape the Bank's AI strategy: Play a pivotal role in defining and executing the Bank's long-term AI technology strategy, contributing to transformative projects that have a lasting impact on the organization.
       Tackle complex challenges with cutting-edge AI solutions: Apply advanced artificial intelligence techniques to solve intricate business problems, driving innovation and delivering meaningful outcomes.
       Be part of a forward-thinking and collaborative team: Join a dynamic group of professionals where creativity, innovation, and out-of-the-box thinking are not just encouraged—they are celebrated. Work in an environment that values fresh ideas and fosters continuous learning.

Principal accountabilities:

       As an AI Engineer, you will focus on the implementation of various AI and data projects. To succeed, you will need a broad set of AI and data engineering skills, along with experience in agile software development methodologies. Your typical responsibilities will include:
       Designing and developing key AI applications for the bank.
       Playing an active role in the entire lifecycle of AI application development, including requirements gathering, identifying data dependencies, handling data quality issues, setting up data integration pipelines, leveraging AI tools, and application deployment.
       Setting team standards for tool and framework selection, architecture, managing data quality for AI, evaluating AI results, fine-tuning models, AI platform, and infrastructure, etc.
       Improving observability and understandability of AI models.
       Supporting the AI infrastructure to ensure greater scalability, high availability, security, and resiliency, spanning both on-premises and Azure cloud.
       Contributing to the Generative AI community within the bank by sharing industry trends and best practices.

Qualifications, skills, and experience:

       A university degree in information technology or a related subject area; or, equivalent work experience.
       Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Python) and the ability to pick up new tech skills independently.
       Proven experience in developing Generative AI applications (Python).
       Deep knowledge of popular industry frameworks in the Generative AI and AI space, such as LangChain, OpenAI, RAG frameworks, and evaluation utilities.
       Experience in building and supporting data engineering pipelines in a data warehousing/data analytics environment.
       Hands-on experience in preparing vast quantities of unstructured and structured data for AI projects.
       Experience with the Azure cloud environment, including setting up, securing, and monitoring resources.
       Knowledge of DevOps processes and container platforms such as OpenShift (or similar).
       Previous experience in NLP, text analytics, and machine learning projects is desirable.
       Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum.
       Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms.

Who we are:

The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organization with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. We want the best people to work for us in an inclusive environment so welcome applications from all qualified candidates. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks. You can discover more about diversity at the BIS here.

What the BIS offers:

We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world.

We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request adjustment, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please contact the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org.

Please note that the deadline for applications is at 23:59 CEST 2 June 2025. 

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