Senior AI Engineer

About DataSpectaDataSpecta is a Data & AI consulting and engineering company helping organizations transform data into measurable business value through advanced analytics, modern data platforms and enterprise AI solutions.We design and deliver solutions across both on-premise and cloud environments, working closely with enterprise customers from discovery through production.Alongside customer projects, we build our own AI products such as CogniSpecta (enterprise knowledge & cognitive search) and CodeSpecta (AI-powered software engineering).We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer based in Baku, Azerbaijan, with strong software engineering fundamentals and proven experience delivering LLM applications and AI agents to production.You will design, build and maintain AI agents, retrieval systems and document generation pipelines for an enterprise AI estate, and own root cause analysis on agent incidents.Location & Work ModelThis role sits in our enterprise delivery practice, working on a dedicated customer engagement.What You Will Work OnTool-calling AI agents and agentic workflowsEnd-to-end RAG pipelines with citationsMCP servers and an internal AI MarketplaceOn-premise and self-hosted LLM architecturesResponsibilitiesBuild tool-calling agents and multi-step workflows with human-in-the-loop checkpointsImplement end-to-end retrieval pipelines, from parsing to reranking and citationIntegrate agents with SAP, SuccessFactors, email and internal APIsExpose agent capabilities as MCP serversBuild template-based Word, Excel and PowerPoint generationOwn prompt versioning, production promotion and runbooksInstrument agents with tracing and diagnose production failuresRequired QualificationsBased in Baku or willing to relocate5+ years in software engineering, 2+ delivering LLM or agent systems to productionExpert Python; production experience with an agent orchestration frameworkProduction RAG experience with measured retrieval qualityExperience with LLM gateways or self-hosted modelsFluent EnglishTechnical SkillsMust have: Python (asyncio, FastAPI, Pydantic, pytest), one agent framework in production, hybrid retrieval + reranking, a vector store, Git/Docker/CIFamiliarity expected: MCP/A2A, document generation (python-docx, openpyxl, python-pptx), self-hosted serving (vLLM/TGI/Ollama), SAP/OData integration, tracing (OpenTelemetry, Langfuse)Preferred Qualifications (a plus)Regulated financial sector or on-premise/air-gapped delivery experienceHands-on SAP or SuccessFactors integrationOpen-source contributions in the agent ecosystemWhat We ValueCuriosity about solving business problems with AIComfort across business, data and technologyEnd-to-end ownershipContinuous learningFollow us:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovance-consultancyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataspectaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/innovanceconsultancyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dataspecta