Senior AI Engineer

Job ID: 3498

We're an award-winning company looking for a Senior AI Engineer who can take a business problem and turn it into typed, tested production code.

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. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and deliver AI solutions end-to-end: from requirements to production, leveraging LLMs, agent architectures, and API integrations
• Own technical and architecture decisions within your domain
• Evaluate solutions for accuracy, explainability, bias, cost, and reliability under real conditions
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and developers
• Contribute to MLOps practices that keep our solutions reliable and scalable

Our stack is Python (typed, tested, linted - we use pytest, mypy, and ruff), SQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform, and Git. We prefer open-source and deploy in both cloud and on-premises environments. We treat AI code like production software because that's what it is. Solutions are reviewed before they ship, deployed through CI/CD, and built with maintenance in mind from day one.

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 building AI solutions that run in production and are relied upon by real users
• Strong Python: typed, tested, maintainable. Pytest, mypy, and ruff are part of your workflow
• Experience with LLM-based applications in production: RAG, agents, or API integrations
• Ability to evaluate AI solutions critically: bias, explainability, uncertainty
• Working knowledge of AWS (or equivalent cloud) and Docker
• Comfort with code review and working in a shared codebase
• Working proficiency in Finnish and English
• Master’s or PhD in a related field

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

• LLM finetuning or self-hosting open-source models
• Agent frameworks (OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, Google ADK)
• Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• 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.