Senior AI-Native Software Engineer / Coach

• IT - Project Management
• Zürich
• Contracting
• Teilzeit, 80-100%
• 02.11.2026 - 31.12.2026 with option to extension
• AI

Your responsibilities:

• Drive the transition towards an end-to-end AI-powered and increasingly autonomous software development model
• Design and implement agentic workflows in which AI agents analyse requirements, write and modify code, execute tests and support code reviews
• Integrate and automate AI-driven solutions within existing enterprise applications and complex development environments
• Define quality standards, human approval gates and governance practices to ensure the safe and traceable use of autonomous AI agents
• Work closely with development teams to establish AI-native ways of working, coaching and mentoring engineers in directing, supervising and validating AI-driven development workflows
• Design and deliver hands-on training sessions and workshops to strengthen AI engineering capabilities, encourage experimentation and support the sustainable adoption of AI-powered development practices

Your profile:

• Several years of hands-on software engineering experience, including the development, testing and maintenance of enterprise applications
• Strong practical expertise in generative AI and LLMs, including RAG, structured data extraction, tool and function calling, and agentic workflows
• Extensive hands-on experience using AI-powered development tools and coding agents, such as GitHub Copilot or comparable solutions, as an integral part of daily engineering work
• Experience implementing AI-powered automation within existing projects, as well as knowledge of DevOps, testing and modern development practices
• Solid understanding of the end-to-end Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), from product discovery and requirements analysis through to architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance
• Ability to rapidly build prototypes, experiment with new approaches and challenge traditional software development processes
• Proven experience in coaching and mentoring software engineers, delivering technical training and enabling teams to adopt new tools, methodologies and AI-native engineering practices
• Fluent in English, German is a big plus

We are not looking for a:

• Data scientists or machine learning specialists
• AI engineers whose primary focus is developing RAG applications, chatbots or LLM-based products
• Pure AI architects focused mainly on conceptual frameworks and target architectures
• Transformation consultants without substantial hands-on software engineering experience
• Traditional software engineers who have only occasionally used AI coding assistants