Senior AI Engineer (insurance platform)

Job ID: 3498

Are you passionate about shaping the future of insurance technology? We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer who can turn promising AI solutions into reliable production services and help build long-term technical quality in a regulated business environment.

Welcome to Nordea Life & Pension Finland. We are a solvent Finnish life insurance company and part of the Nordea Group, but we are not Nordea Bank’s everyday banking business. Our focus is on life insurance, savings and pension-related products, and while Nordea Bank acts as an important distribution channel and agent for several of our products, Nordea Life & Pension has its own business domain, products and dedicated IT organisation.

About this opportunity

Nordea Life & Pension Finland combines the strengths of a specialised insurance company with the backing of a large financial group. We are much smaller than Nordea Bank, which means closer collaboration, shorter decision paths and strong ownership in day-to-day work. At the same time, because we are part of the Nordea Group, the role also requires the ability to work across shared platforms, common processes and a larger enterprise environment.

We are a small company recognized repeatedly as Finland's best financial sector workplace by Great Place to Work and winner of the Finnish Quality Award. Quality is not a project; it is part of how we think. We do things properly, improve continuously, and keep structures light so people can focus on meaningful work.

Now we focus on building our AI capability over maintaining a legacy. You'll join alongside data scientists, developers, and MLOps. Technical ownership, including architecture, standards and engineering direction, belongs to the senior engineers we're bringing in. You'll have real influence on how this team operates as it grows. Your focus is the layer between "the model works in development" and "the model works reliably for real customers." Model serving architecture, deployment pipelines, ML-specific monitoring, cost optimization, and the automation that lets the team deploy confidently and roll back safely.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own the production lifecycle of AI models: serving, monitoring, scaling, and reliability
• Design and operate model serving infrastructure (vLLM or equivalent) across hybrid environments
• Implement AI-specific monitoring: prediction quality, drift detection, latency, throughput, and cost per inference
• Manage GPU infrastructure: provisioning, scheduling, and utilisation optimisation
• Ensure security, compliance, and reliability for AI workloads in a regulated environment

Our AI workloads include LLM serving on vLLM with GPU infrastructure, agent-based systems, and we use SageMaker for parts of our pipeline. The broader stack is Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and Git. We prefer open-source and operate in both cloud and on-premises environments.

This role is located in our Helsinki (Kaisaniemi). Ideal starting month is as soon as possible.

Who you are

We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience running AI or ML workloads in production with strong focus on reliability and operational quality
• Strong Python and practical experience with production engineering, automation, and CI/CD workflows
• Hands-on experience with model serving, LLM infrastructure, or similar AI platform components
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and performance optimisation for AI services, including cost and throughput considerations
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
• Ability to work securely and pragmatically in a regulated environment with shared enterprise platforms
• Working proficiency in Finnish and English
• Master’s or PhD in a related field

It would be beneficial if you know/have/can:

• Hands-on experience with vLLM, self-hosted LLM serving, or equivalent serving technologies
• Experience with GPU infrastructure, scheduling, and utilisation optimisation
• Experience with SageMaker, Jenkins, or similar tooling in production AI environments
• Background in insurance, financial services, or other regulated domains
• Awareness of data privacy, GDPR, security, and ethical considerations in AI workloads

Please note, showing strengths in one area compensates for shortcomings in another. We encourage you to submit your application and briefly elaborate if that is something you are motivated to learn.

What we offer

We believe that great people deserve great benefits, so we offer you:

• High autonomy and ownership in a small, award-winning company
• Real influence on architecture, standards and engineering direction
• Close collaboration, short decision paths and meaningful day-to-day impact
• Lunch (on top of salary), sport & culture benefit
• Banking benefits, e.g. personnel mortgage margin and free daily banking services
• Modern office above the metro station and close to the train station in Kaisaniemi
• Training and education possibilities in a team that values continuous improvement

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application (in PDF format in Finnish or English) no later than 31/05/2026. Please note that we will proceed with potential candidates already during the application period. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to a call with their future team members. If you have any questions about recruitment steps you may contact our recruiter Sanna Frisk at sanna.frisk@nordea.com.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.