Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About the role

LHV, a bank founded in Estonia and now expanding into the UK and Europe, is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer in Tallinn. The engineer acts as an internal consultant and builder embedded in business units, with the autonomy to spot inefficiencies and develop solutions, from building from scratch to integrating with existing platforms. Relocation assistance is not provided.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with business units to understand their daily work and find practical ways to solve bottlenecks
• Translate business needs into simple, secure and automated workflows
• Deploy solutions safely within the infrastructure, complying with security and data standards
• Work with data owners to connect tools with existing databases and systems
• Help develop, monitor and scale the central internal technology platform
• Train business team members on safe use of internal tools
• Track performance and business impact of built solutions, document work clearly and assign a designated owner and support path to each solution

Required profile

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, focused on clean, readable and maintainable code
• Hands-on experience building custom AI solutions, working with APIs or setting up open-source interfaces
• A practical approach to AI as a tool for real business problems
• Comfort with ambiguity, great communication and critical thinking skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and switch contexts smoothly
• Familiarity with AWS or similar environments is a plus; proficiency in Estonian is preferred
• Current residency in Estonia