Applied AI Engineer - Zürich
Role Overview
As an Applied AI Engineer, you will build and ship AI-powered internal tools to automate hiring, finance, and operations workflows, aiming for 10x efficiency gains. This is a senior-level role with a founder-level mandate, working independently or in a small team to integrate LLMs, AI agents, and frameworks into production-ready solutions. You will own deployments end-to-end, from development to monitoring, creating compounding leverage across the company.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position, likely with flexibility in time zones given the international customer base, though some overlap with Zurich hours may be expected. Benefits include opportunities for rapid career growth in a high-growth, employee-owned startup, solving real-world problems with exceptional colleagues from top academic and professional backgrounds. The culture emphasizes ownership, fast-paced innovation, and collaboration with non-technical teams.
Full Job Description
Join blp – The #1 Solution for ERP Automation
blp is a high-performance ETH and HSG spin-off redefining ERP automation with AI. We solve real enterprise problems with cutting-edge tech and a strong sense of ownership. Our solution is in production across 40+ countries, used by 20'000+ daily active users, automating 70'000+ processes every day.
Our AI-driven ERP automation is transforming finance, procurement, logistics, sales, and more. As one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups, we are proudly self-financed and fully employee-owned.
Our success stems from deep expertise in technology and business processes, delivering a superior product with an outstanding product-to-market fit, proven by our growing customer base, including Fortune 500 companies.
Our rapid growth and career opportunities have been recognised with the LinkedIn Top Startup Award, and we’re just getting started. Our HQ? Zürich’s iconic Bahnhofstrasse, a fitting home for a company redefining how businesses operate.
Ready to build the future? Join blp today.
About the position
We're giving you the keys to the machine. As our Applied AI Engineer, you'll have a founder-level mandate to build and ship AI-powered internal tools that make our hiring, finance and ops workflows 10x faster — not 10% faster. You'll work at the frontier of what's possible with LLMs, AI agents, and emerging AI tooling, and apply it where it matters most: inside our own company.
Key Responsibilities
Build and ship AI-powered internal tools fast — we're talking days and weeks, not quarters
Evaluate, integrate, and chain the latest AI models, APIs, and frameworks (LLMs, agent frameworks, embedding pipelines, AI coding tools) into production-ready internal solutions
Create compounding leverage — every tool you build should free up hours across the entire company
Write clean, maintainable code that integrates with our existing systems — APIs, databases, third-party services — and doesn't break at scale
Own your deployments end-to-end: build it, test it, ship it, monitor it — and build it well enough that it runs reliably without babysitting
Requirements
Technical background with real building experience — CS degree, bootcamp, self-taught, we don't care as long as you've shipped things that work
You've built with modern AI tooling (LLMs, AI coding assistants, workflow automation) and you're obsessed with what's coming next
Startup or entrepreneurial DNA — you've either founded something, built an internal tool that became critical infra, or hacked together solutions that people actually used
You move fast, communicate clearly, and love collaborating with non-technical teams to understand their pain points and turn them into elegant, automated solutionsFluency in English, German is a plus
Bonus: experience with tools like Make, n8n, Retool, Supabase, or similar — but honestly, we care more about your ability to learn any tool in a weekend
Benefits
Solve real problems, fast. Join a high-growth deep-tech startup tackling real-world challenges for global industry leaders.
Build from zero to one. Take ownership of our internal tooling landscape — shaping its foundations and direction from the ground up.
Opportunities to grow. You're controlling your personal development and career trajectory in a rapidly growing, internationally expanding startup
Exceptional colleagues. You'll be growing alongside individuals from exceptional academic backgrounds and careers
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