Staff Software Engineer | AI

The role

You will design and build AI-powered features to enhance the 8am suite of products. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to bring AI into production.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions.
• Design, implement, and integrate AI features into existing 8am products.
• Partner with the Data team to ensure data is collected, enriched, prepared, and staged for AI consumption.
• Build and evaluate AI-powered services from prototypes to general availability.
• Write high-quality Python code to manipulate data, interact with LLMs, and assess performance.
• Develop tools and infrastructure to support reliable, scalable, and secure AI deployment.
• Work with the cloud operations team to deploy, monitor, and improve AI features.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in full stack SaaS application development or backend.
• Proven track record of building and deploying production-ready AI/ML services.
• Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks, platforms and related tooling.
• Strong Python or equivalent modern tech stack development skills.
• Familiarity with data manipulation and evaluation workflows.
• Experience building scalable data infrastructure and integrating models into broader SaaS systems.
• Experience working in AWS cloud environments, or equivalent.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.
• Based near Brno.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience fine-tuning and optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience integrating AI into streaming or real-time data flows.
• Background in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Exposure to fintech or the legal industry.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• Paid sick leave
• Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations
• Additional paid paternity leave from 8am
• Full statutory benefits including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage
• Possible performance bonus opportunities in the future
• Employee referral rewards
• Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy)
• Ongoing professional development
• Opportunities to travel for company events
• High-quality company swag

About the company

8am is a professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Founded in 2005, it serves more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S.