Baker Hughes

Lead AI Engineer (d/f/m)

FLORENCE-VIA FELICE MATTEUCCI 2, FI, Italy · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerBaker Hughes
LocationFLORENCE-VIA FELICE MATTEUCCI 2, FI, Italy
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted9 Oct 2026

Are you a highly motivated, creative individual and passionate about sales and proposals?

Would you like to be a part of successful team?

Join our Artificial Intelligence Engineering Team

We design, build, and operate AI services that power critical business processes, including real-time decisioning, document understanding, predictive maintenance, computer vision, and Generative AI use cases. Our focus is on turning validated AI models into reliable, secure, and scalable production services.

Partner with the best

You will play a key role in enabling Baker Hughes’ mission to make energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient through intelligent technologies. As a Lead AI Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of AI serving capabilities that meet strict requirements for performance, reliability, cost control, and operational readiness, while mentoring other engineers and driving consistent engineering standards across teams.

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As a Lead AI Engineer, you will also be responsible for:

Leading the design, analysis, implementation, and integration of AI model serving solutions.
Designing and standardizing serving architectures for AI and GenAI use cases.
Defining and implementing safe rollout and rollback strategies. Driving performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
Establishing and reviewing runtime resilience patterns. Providing technical leadership and coaching through design and code reviews.
Developing and reviewing performance, load, resiliency, and cost test plans.
Ensuring operational readiness for production launches. Participating in architecture, operational readiness, and security reviews.
Collaborating with Platform, MLOps, Reliability, Security, Data, and Product teams.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will have:

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
Strong experience delivering production-grade software systems.
Expertise in Python development.
Experience with containerized, microservice-based architectures.
Strong understanding of API design and versioning. Experience with AWS.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
Fluent Italian and English
EU permit

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too.

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect.

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Comprehensive private medical care options

Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional elected or voluntary benefits

For Italy: The initial pay range for this position will be EUR 43,600 To 70,000. The provisions of Contratto Collettivo Industria Metalmeccanica e della installazione di impianti will be applied to this position. Section VI – Titolo IV of that collective bargaining agreement relates to pay.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Specialist - Data Science

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