Job Description
Imagine yourself…
Doing cutting-edge AI work that places you at the forefront of the AI space
Solving complex business problems through advanced Generative AI systems
Growing your expertise while contributing to sustainable innovation
Building intelligent solutions that transform packaging design and workflows
It’s all possible with a role at Esko. 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 integrated platform and comprehensive tools empower brand owners, retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters to support and manage best-in-class packaging design and print processes.
Innovation is built into the DNA of our business: every day, we challenge ourselves to be better by seeking new ways to elevate our products, our processes, and our people.
We also know that innovation and ingenuity start with prioritizing a diverse workforce and a deeply inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the AI Expert to lead the design, development, and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions that leverage large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic AI architectures. This is a hands-on leadership role for a builder and systems thinker who can push generative AI from experimentation into scalable, production-ready capabilities. This is a hybrid role, with more onsite presence in Prague during onboarding.
In this role, a typical day would include:
Architectural Leadership: Design scalable, resilient AI architectures that support multi-tenant, global packaging solutions. Define the blueprint for how Esko handles agentic reasoning and distributed memory
Core Infrastructure & LLMOps: Lead the development of internal platforms for model lifecycle management, including automated retraining loops, deployment strategies (Canary/Blue-Green), and cost-attribution systems
Advanced R&D: Conduct feasibility studies on emerging tech (e.g., State Space Models, small language model distillation, or custom embedding architectures) to keep Esko ahead of the competition
Evaluation Strategy: Establish organization-wide standards for Model Governance and Red-Teaming. Build the framework that measures the "ROI of Accuracy" for every feature we ship
Technical Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier by mentoring Senior AI Engineers, conducting deep-dive code reviews, and fostering a culture of rigorous scientific experimentation
Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with executive leadership and Product VPs to translate business vision into a technical AI roadmap
Required Skills & Qualifications
Education: Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent deep industry experience)
Experience: 10+ years in Software Engineering, with 5+ years in AI/ML leadership. You have successfully taken multiple LLM-based products from "Alpha" to "Enterprise Scale."
Expertise in Training & Alignment: Deep experience with Full-Parameter Fine-Tuning and Alignment Techniques (DPO, PPO, or KTO). Experience generating and filtering high-quality Synthetic Data for domain-specific model training
Systems Engineering: Expertise in high-throughput inference (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM) and low-latency vector retrieval at the scale of billions of vectors. Strong understanding of distributed computing (Ray, Kubernetes, or Spark)
Strategic Benchmarking: Ability to design domain-specific evaluation moats that go beyond public benchmarks to measure real-world packaging design utility
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Vision-Language Models (VLM) for analysing packaging graphics or 3D structural data
Knowledge of deploying distilled models to edge devices or client-side environments
A known contributor to the AI ecosystem (e.g., maintainer of a popular library or published research)
Experience with serving frameworks like vLLM, NVIDIA Triton, or TGI (Text Generation Inference)
What We Offer
Joining a highly experienced and long-established engineering hub in Prague
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.
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