Lead AI Engineer

As the talent market continues its rapid change, candidates and client expectations on workforce solutions are also evolving. To navigate this, The Adecco Group is working to differentiate its value propositions, creating closer candidate relationships, building a more strategic connection with clients and empower recruiters to leverage latest technologies to serve candidates and clients best.

The Candidate Experience and Innovation team has been given the mandate to define new, distinctive user-experience based on AI innovation.

As a Lead AI Engineer, you will be responsible for building new AI capabilities using the latest technologies, such as AI Agents and Generative AI, to enhance Talent experiences. Initially, these experiences will focus on candidates, aiming to reimagine their interaction with the Group and recruiters throughout the hiring process.

We are developing new ways to interact, leveraging conversational UX, particularly agentic voice-based interactions. These innovative solutions will rely on AI-driven backend components and be grounded in Adecco Group’s extensive job market data. They will also be designed in compliance with our Responsible AI policies, reflecting our core values.

The technical stack, particularly the AI components, will consist of both internal assets and capabilities from strategic partners. Scalable designs and architectures will enable the deployment of Candidate Experiences across the 40+ markets served by the Adecco Group.

Over time, these AI-powered experiences may be extended to other audiences, including associates, recruiters, customers, and internal users.

• Overseeing the delivery of a team of internal and/or external AI engineers and data scientists.
• Contributing to the AI Agents roadmap in collaboration with our strategic partners - Salesforce and Microsoft.
• Experimenting with new AI Agents concepts, algorithms and frameworks and supporting the industrialization of AI Agents.
• Driving the execution of the roadmap to create business value by connecting innovative AI capabilities with real-world use cases and user experiences.
• Leading the implementation of Responsible AI, ensuring ethical AI and compliance with regulatory and corporate AI governance policies.
• Collaborating closely with Product Managers, Program Managers, Tech Leads, and UX Designers to build high-quality products.
• Partnering with Architects, Security, Legal, and Responsible AI stakeholders to ensure the scalability, security, and compliance of AI solutions.

• Master’s degree in applied mathematics, Software Engineering, AI, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, and AI engineering, with a proven track record in building scalable AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of how generative models (e.g., Transformers, Diffusion Models, VAEs) are built, trained, and fine-tuned. Knowledge of pretraining, reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), and model adaptation techniques.
• Deep understanding of how to embed generative AI models (e.g., LLMs, Diffusion Models) into real-world applications, addressing challenges like latency, API orchestration, prompt engineering, and inference optimization.
• Experience in designing and optimizing data architectures for AI, including structured and unstructured data management, knowledge graphs, and long-term memory mechanisms. Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and efficient data retrieval techniques to enhance agent reasoning and contextual awareness.
• Ability to bridge the gap between stateless traditional software development and dynamic, probabilistic AI-driven workflows, ensuring reliability, controllability, and scalability.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and Java and agentic framework such as LangChain.
• Passion for innovation, exploring emerging AI technologies. Experience with AI Agents, conversational AI, particularly voice-based AI interactions is a plus.
• Product-oriented mindset, leveraging AI to create seamless and innovative user experiences.
• Strong understanding of Responsible AI, including ethical AI principles, bias mitigation, and compliance considerations.
• Ability to work iteratively and adaptively, delivering value incrementally in an Agile environment.
• Proficient level of English.

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.

You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident, and insightful.

Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset -that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while the sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together.

Make an impact where it matters most.

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary.

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.As one of the world’s largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain.

The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Posting date: 06-04-2025