Principal Engineer / Engineering Lead — Agentic AI

First, the practical bit — your work setup in Switzerland: *

Swiss citizen or permit holder (B/C/L)
EU/EFTA citizen
Non-EU/EFTA — I'd need a work permit

The team is mostly together in Zurich, with about a day a week from home. How does that sit with you? *

Great — I'm in or near Zurich, or happy to move
Works for me with a bit of relocation support
Honestly, I'm after something mostly or fully remote

Roughly how long have you been building software hands-on? *

Under 5 years
5–8 years
8–12 years
12+ years

This role is for someone who loves staying close to the work — architecting, reviewing and writing code — with people-leadership as the smaller part. Is that the kind of role you're after? *

Yes — staying hands-on is exactly what I want
Mostly — hands-on, with some leadership and mentoring
I'm actually looking for a primarily managerial role

How would you describe your cloud and architecture background? *

Strong with Azure (Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry, etc.)
Strong with AWS or GCP — and happy to bring it to Azure
Some cloud experience
Still building this up

Have you taken AI or agent systems all the way into production — real users, real traffic, the messy real-world edge cases? *

Yes — I've owned production agent systems end-to-end, including multi-agent setups
Yes — I've built or contributed to production AI agents
So far it's been prototypes and POCs
Not yet — but I'm keen

Which of these have you built hands-on? (Tick all that apply — no need to have them all.) *

Multi-agent orchestration — agents that plan, coordinate and use tools
Artefact / output generation — agents producing finished deliverables, not just chat
Human-in-the-loop approval and audit flows
Integrations to business systems (CRM, ERP, email, calendar, e-signature)
Agent evaluation & regression testing — measuring and guarding behaviour
Model-agnostic / swappable LLM architecture
Working over large structured company or market data (retrieval, enrichment, RAG)

When your agents run in production, how do you usually keep them reliable? *

I build evaluation and regression suites and monitor behaviour systematically
I lean on human-in-the-loop checkpoints for the critical steps
Mostly careful prompt design and manual testing
I'm still developing my approach here

What base salary are you targeting (annual gross, CHF)? *

CHF 140–160k
CHF 160–180k
CHF 180–200k
CHF 200k+

When could you realistically start? *

Right away, or within a month
In 1–3 months
In 3+ months
I'm flexible

In a sentence or two — what draws you to this kind of role right now? (The mission, the tech, the ownership, the stage — whatever's true for you.)

Anything you'd like us to highlight to our client on your behalf — a particular strength, a question, or something that matters to you?

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