AI SW Engineer
Nokia is hiring an AI SW Engineer. Level rates it ; you can apply on Nokia.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include OpenAI, Copilot and LangChain.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 576 other open roles at Nokia.
AI in this role
As an AI Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development, deployment, and support of enterprise-grade AI and software solutions. This includes evaluating and selecting technologies, designing scalable architectures, developing applications, managing infrastructure, implementing CI/CD pipelines, overseeing deployments, and providing ongoing production support. Additionally, you will build, maintain, and optimize the technical platforms and engineering practices that enable teams to efficiently collaborate, develop, deploy, and operate these solutions at scale.
Your responsibilities
- Evaluate business requirements and select appropriate technology stacks, application frameworks, databases, and deployment architectures for AI and non-AI solutions.
- Design, develop, and maintain AI-powered and web applications using Python, Django/Flask, FastAPI, React, REST APIs, LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph.
- Provision and manage application infrastructure across OpenStack and Azure, including VMs, application hosting, Nginx, HTTPS/TLS, and supporting services. (NSSM)
- Manage Azure identity and application authentication, including Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), App Registrations, application permissions, OAuth-based authentication, and secure integration of applications with Azure services.
- Establish and maintain GitLab repositories, contributor access, branching/code-review workflows, GitLab Runners in VM, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage application PostgreSQL databases, including connectivity, migrations, backups, and deployment-related database changes.
- Initiate new projects, develop the initial technical implementation, establish coding and architecture standards, and onboard other developers for collaborative development.
- Maintain technical specifications, architecture documentation, deployment procedures, and operational documentation for applications.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and GitHub Copilot and develop reusable skills/instructions for AI coding assistants.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the application, LLM-Gateway APIs, Application APIs, database, infrastructure, and deployment layers, collaborating with internal platform, security, and technology teams where required. Managing secrets and credentials through KeyVaults (TBD)
Your skills and experience
- 5-8Yrs experience in Python software development experience with Django, Flask, FastAPI, or equivalent frameworks.
- Experience building LLM/GenAI applications, RAG solutions, and AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Git, GitLab, CI/CD, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and application deployment.
- Working experience with cloud/virtualized infrastructure, preferably Azure and OpenStack.
- Experience with Nginx, HTTPS/TLS, Linux/Windows server environments, and application services.
- Working knowledge of React/JavaScript for maintaining web applications.
- Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to independently take an application from requirement, design, development, deployment to production support.
- Strong appetite for continuous learning and experimentation, with the ability to independently explore emerging AI, software, cloud, and developer technologies, rapidly build proofs-of-concept, and identify opportunities to apply them to enterprise solutions.
Nice-To-Have
- Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell.
- Azure AI/Azure OpenAI, vector databases/pgVector, MCP, and AI evaluation/observability, RAGAS RAG evaluation, ML, fine-tuning.
- Experience with enterprise identity, authentication, and security platforms.
- Experience with SharePoint, Power BI, Power Apps, and Microsoft Copilot Studio, including integration with enterprise applications, data sources, workflows, and AI-powered business solutions.
How we rate this
AI SW Engineer at Nokia rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● 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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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- How would you design a retrieval step so the model answers from real data instead of guessing?
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
- How do you decide that one model's output is better than another's for a given task?
- Walk me through how you've used OpenAI in your day-to-day work.
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: RAG, AI agents, Fine-tuning, AI Evaluation, and OpenAI. 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.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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