AI Engineering Lead (Python Software Engineer + GenAI) | Digital&IPA (freelance)
PwC is hiring an AI Engineering Lead (Python Software Engineer + GenAI) | Digital&IPA (freelance) in Warsaw, Poland. Level rates it ; you can apply on PwC.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this AI engineer role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include LangChain, LangGraph and Semantic Kernel.
- Level classifies it as a lead role.
- Level lists 3,700+ other open roles at PwC.
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Job Description & Summary
The Digital&IPA team at PwC Poland consists of nearly 500 people.
We are responsible for IT projects for both Polish and international clients. We carry out a wide range of tasks—from designing, building, and implementing solutions, through developing functional specifications, analyzing data in source systems, to defining business requirements, supporting testing, and creating mobile applications.
Within the department, we provide IT consulting services, mainly for financial sector institutions in Poland and abroad.
We are looking for:
AI Engineering Lead (Python Software Engineer + GenAI)
Your future role:
- Design and implement modern applications,
- Contribute to high-performance solution architecture,
- Create clear, maintainable project documentation,
- Participate in software deployments and collaborate with users to resolve issues,
- Present solutions and their implementations to clients,
- Approach solution creation creatively within the project cycle,
- Support junior developers in the team.
Apply if you have:
- Degree in computer science or a related field,
- Approximately 2 years of experience in similar role,
- Advanced Python and SDLC experience (6+ years),
- Familiar with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms,
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases,
- Deep understanding of LLMs: transformers, embeddings, tokenization, and API integrations,
- Proficiency in prompt engineering and orchestration tools (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Crew AI),
- Expertise in agentic AI design patterns,
- Experience in improvement and evaluation of RAG systems.
- Familiarity with emerging AI trends and standards,
- Strong Python software engineering skills with coding standards and best practices,
- Experience with code reviews, debugging, testing, and version control,
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes),
- Experience containerizing AI solutions and deploying across enterprise environments,
- Ability to integrate logging, monitoring, and alerting systems,
- Strong understanding of scaling of web applications, experience with asynchronous processing, and multithreading.
- Strong problem-solving using systems thinking and first principles,
- Ability to design scalable, resilient, and secure end-to-end systems,
- Expertise in API design, event-driven architectures, microservices, serverless, and containers,
- Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns (messaging, pub/sub, event sourcing),
- Knowledge of IAM, RBAC, secrets management, and network security (VPCs, firewalls),
- Experience in developing web applications and systems processing large data sets.
Our recruitment process:
- After positive CV verification our Recruiter will contact you by Phone for a short screening call,
- Let's get to know each other better during the recruitment interview.
With any queries please contact pl_ITrecruitment@pwc.com with job title in the subject.
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How we rate this
AI Engineering Lead (Python Software Engineer + GenAI) | Digital&IPA (freelance) at PwC rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $184k
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Questions you could be asked
- How do you structure and test a prompt to get consistent output from a language model?
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- What are the limits of LangChain that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
- What's a project where you used LangGraph hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used Semantic Kernel in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Prompt engineering, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, and Semantic Kernel. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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