AI Engineer - AI Platform (LLM Systems) Development · Budapest · Hybrid
Basis Technologies
AI Engineer – AI Platform (LLM Systems)
We are building a new AI function to drive AI-native capabilities across our products and business operations. This team is the foundational layer for how AI is built and scaled at Basis.
About Basis Technologies
Basis Technologies enables every SAP-run business to manage change intelligently – no matter how complex their technology landscape. Our Intelligent Change Management (ICM) solutions harness the collective intelligence of the SAP community to help business and technology change teams explore, plan, and execute business change imperatives.
We are building a new AI function to drive AI-native capabilities across our products and business operations. This team is the foundational layer for how AI is built and scaled at Basis – not just using AI tools, but laying the architecture that everything else sits on top of.
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity within our AI Function for a driven and collaborative AI Engineer to build and scale the intelligence layer of our AI-native platform.
You will be based in Budapest and work closely with the Klario product team, acting as an AI-native presence on the ground – collaborating daily with existing engineers to help them move from using AI as a tool to building with it as a foundation. You will also work closely with our Architecture team to shape how AI capabilities are designed, built, and evaluated across the platform.
In this role, you will:
Implement and optimise LLM orchestration pipelines across our platform's core capabilities
Build and maintain modular prompt architecture
Build knowledge graph infrastructure using graph databases and vector databases for domain knowledge representation and semantic retrieval
Build RAG pipelines using federated retrieval across multiple knowledge sources
Develop and operate the centralised evaluation framework across all AI capabilities
Implement multi-agent systems to power agentic AI capabilities
Conduct model evaluation and selection
Contribute to AI governance and compliance, supporting ISO 42001 and EU AI Act readiness
Collaborate closely with Engineering and Architecture teams across Budapest and Bracknell
Is this opportunity for you?
Essential experience and skills:
Hands-on experience in AI engineering, building production LLM systems
Strong expertise in prompt engineering, context engineering and structured prompt architectures
Production experience with RAG systems
Experience with graph databases and vector databases for knowledge representation and semantic retrieval
Experience building evaluation frameworks for AI systems
Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines
Comfortable working in a fast-moving scale-up environment where you need to figure things out as you go
Desirable skills:
Experience with agentic workflow patterns: multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, state management
Understanding of EU AI Act requirements and ISO 42001
Experience building shared AI infrastructure used by multiple product teams
Familiarity with SAP BTP ecosystem
What we do
We enable every SAP-run business to manage change intelligently – no matter how complex their technology landscape. Our suite of Intelligent Change Management solutions harnesses the collective intelligence of the SAP community to help business and technology change teams work together to explore, plan, and execute business change imperatives. For over 25 years, we have helped equip, liberate, and champion SAP change heroes at global leaders like Kimberly-Clark, 3M, and Vistaprint.
Who we are
We have been officially named one of the UK's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work, for the third year in a row.
We are at an exciting point as we scale from 130+ global employees. We have the foundations in place to grow with purpose, whilst retaining the individual ownership and tangible impact you would expect working in a scale-up organisation.
We are a global team who collaborate across all levels, locations, and departments, whilst individually having the knowledge, expertise, autonomy, and accountability to drive successful outcomes. Our fast-paced environment means we embrace change and communicate effectively to proactively and creatively solve problems.
Why join us?
Aside from the benefits of role evolution, tangible individual impact, and personal growth that you would expect working in a global scale-up environment, at Basis Technologies we take looking out for our employees seriously.
Benefits include:
Competitive salary
Global Flexibility – work abroad for up to one month per year
Enhanced Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer Day
Employee Referral Bonus
Learning and Development Budget – each employee receives support to continue growing professionally
Mental Health First Aiders Programme
- Department
- Development
- Locations
- Budapest
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Basis Technologies
Basis Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and we encourage applications from all people regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status or sexual orientation.