Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (Internship or Full-Time, Milan)

We have multiple positions to fill. The type of position we offer depends on your experience and qualifications:

• No work experience, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree: we offer you an internship.
• At least 2 years of work experience, or a Ph.D. / postdoc: we offer you a full-time position.

About Us

We are an AI startup founded in 2020, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with an AI Lab in Milan, Italy. Our expertise spans machine learning and generative AI for financial services.

At Gemmo AI, we build custom AI solutions that combine automation with human insight. We use a modular approach: first we explore the highest-impact opportunities, then we design and deploy tailored solutions, and finally we help improve and maintain them over time.

We believe in responsible, pragmatic AI: systems that integrate into real workflows, provide measurable value, and remain under the client's control.

Our Team

• Forward Deployed Engineers: 25 people, including 4 Ph.D.s
• Leadership: 4 people

We are a lean, technical-first team, and we're growing. We're looking to add 17 new Forward-Deployed AI Engineer roles before the end of the year.

The Role

A forward-deployed engineer works directly with the client and owns the solution end to end: from understanding the business problem, to choosing and building the right model, to shipping and running it in production. There's no handoff chain. The same engineer who hears the problem delivers the answer.

In practice, the role combines three disciplines:

• Business analysis: understanding how a financial institution works, mapping its processes, and turning a vague request into a clear specification.
• ML engineering: building, evaluating and improving models, from classic prediction models to fine-tuned LLMs.
• Software engineering: building the APIs, integrations and applications that put models into real workflows, then deploying and maintaining them.

Nobody arrives strong in all three. We hire people who are solid in at least one and eager to grow into the others.

What You'll Do

You'll work on AI solutions for one of the most data-rich industries in the world, in direct contact with enterprise clients. Depending on the project, you might:

• Sit with client stakeholders to understand a workflow and identify where AI creates measurable value
• Build prediction models and ML-based document analysis
• Fine-tune LLMs to power conversational interfaces over the client's data
• Extract actionable insights from large-scale datasets
• Design the APIs and integrations that connect your models to the client's systems
• Deploy, monitor and improve what you've built once it's live

Both tracks involve close collaboration with senior engineers and direct exposure to enterprise clients. This is not a support role: you'll be expected to contribute from day one.

What You Will Learn

• Running discovery with clients and translating business problems into technical plans
• Building and evaluating ML and generative AI solutions for financial services
• Designing, building and maintaining CRUD APIs to interact with users and serve models
• Deploying, monitoring and maintaining applications in Azure and Snowflake
• Communicating technical work clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Who You Are

• You have a solid foundation in machine learning or software engineering, from your studies, research or work
• You enjoy understanding why something needs to be built, not just how
• You're comfortable talking to clients and asking questions when a problem is unclear
• You take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
• You write clearly, because most of our communication happens in writing
• Interest in financial services is a plus; prior experience is not required

Tech Stack

We use a mix of modern tools and languages. You'll have the chance to explore and work with technologies like these:

• Languages: Python, SQL
• ML frameworks: PyTorch, XGBoost
• API frameworks: FastAPI
• Databases: Snowflake, Postgres
• Cloud: Azure, AWS

How We Work

Everyone is expected to communicate clearly, move fast, and take ownership.