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 Engineer is responsible for leading the design, optimization, and governance of Esko’s Generative AI ecosystem, enabling scalable, reliable, and production-grade AI capabilities across products. This is a hybrid role, with more onsite presence in Prague during onboarding.
In this role, a typical day will look like:
Design and scale agentic AI systems to support long-running, complex workflows using orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen
Develop systematic evaluation and benchmarking pipelines using G‑Eval, RAGAS, and LLM‑as‑a‑Judge approaches to measure performance, hallucinations, and latency
Implement advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) strategies, including multi-stage re‑ranking, hybrid search, and query expansion for high-precision knowledge retrieval
Optimize model inference performance using quantization approaches such as AWQ and GGUF, along with caching strategies for cost‑efficient high throughput
Collaborate closely with Data Science and DevOps teams to transition experimental prototypes into hardened, production-ready APIs
Implement safety guardrails, red‑teaming workflows, and alignment mechanisms to ensure outputs meet industry regulations and brand‑safety standards
The essential requirements of the job include:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field
Minimum of 6 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on LLM application development and deployment
Hands-on experience with parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques such as LoRA and QLoRA
Strong proficiency in PyTorch or JAX
Expert-level experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Haystack, along with scaling vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus
Proven experience building custom evaluation datasets and tracking experiments using tools such as Weights & Biases or MLflow
Strong understanding of LLMOps, including CI/CD pipelines, prompt versioning, and model endpoint management
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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At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
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