Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Krakow, Poland, Västerås, Sweden
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Business Unit Service is at the forefront of delivering advanced digital and outcome-based service solutions worldwide. Our Service R&D organization develops next-generation digital service solutions that leverage IoT, cloud platforms, data, and AI to enable long-term asset performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the energy and industrial domain.
As Lead AI Engineer, you will play a key role in defining and evolving AI capabilities across digital service solutions. You will ensure that AI models, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled services are architected, governed, and integrated as scalable, reusable, and enterprise-ready components embedded into end-to-end service operations.
This role directly impacts the success of intelligent service operations, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and AI-augmented decision-making, where model quality, robustness, explainability, and lifecycle governance are critical for business value and customer trust.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Defining and owning the AI R&D capability strategy and architecture for digital service solutions, covering applied machine learning, advanced analytics, and LLM-based and agentic AI systems
- Establishing architectural principles and standards aligned with cloud-native delivery models, industrial scalability, and long-lifecycle service solutions
- Translating service and domain needs into AI models, use cases, and solution-level designs embedded in end-to-end workflows and decision processes
- Designing and governing AI model lifecycles, including problem framing, validation, deployment, monitoring, and controlled evolution
- Ensuring AI outputs are actionable, interpretable, and aligned with operational realities and business objectives
- Leading the design and governance of agentic AI workflows that combine reasoning, orchestration, and automation across service operations
- Collaborating with data platform, digital platform, and IT teams to ensure AI solutions are supported by scalable data pipelines, feature management, and analytics services
- Establishing principles and controls for AI quality, explainability, bias mitigation, and ethical use aligned with regulatory and industrial requirements
- Contributing to AI portfolio alignment, reuse, and standardization across solutions to reduce fragmentation and accelerate value realization
- Acting as a technical authority and trusted advisor, guiding architecture decisions and supporting capability development across Service R&D
Requirements
- University degree (Bachelor's or Master's) in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Proven experience in designing, implementing, or governing applied AI/ML solutions in industrial, IoT, or service-oriented environments
- Strong understanding of end-to-end AI pipelines, including data preparation, model development, deployment, and monitoring
- Experience integrating AI into enterprise-scale digital solutions using cloud platforms, microservices, and MLOps practices
- Ability to translate AI techniques into interpretable, operationally relevant outcomes aligned with service and domain needs
- Experience working in cross-functional environments across R&D, engineering, service, and digital organizations
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence architecture and solution decisions across stakeholders
- Experience with LLM-based systems, agentic AI, or advanced analytics platforms is an advantage
- Familiarity with AI governance, ethics, compliance, and regulated industrial environments is meriting
More About Us
At Hitachi Energy, we recognize that our people are at the heart of our success. We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive workplace, competitive rewards, and opportunities for professional and personal growth. Our benefits package is designed to help employees thrive both at work and in their personal lives.
Benefits
Our benefits offering for this role generally includes
- Private medical care and life insurance
- Access to fitness and wellness programs
- Access to benefits platform with discounts and perks
- Employee Capital Plans (PPK)
- Equipment for working from home or allowances for setting up a workplace at home
- Spectacles and contact lenses allowance
- Company events and team-building activities
- Psychological support program
- Free parking available
- Add if applicable: additional benefits may apply depending on the role, grade, and business requirements.
- You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.
- Apply now
- Current employees apply here
About the Company
More About Us
We believe great work thrives in an environment where people feel genuinely supported and fairly rewarded. Our benefits are designed to create real value for every individual - fueling engagement, performance, and growth. By prioritizing well-being, we build a workplace where personal and organizational success grow together.
Our benefit offering is tailored based on your country of employment and generally includes:
You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.
Applicable only for Poland location align with local law regulations - We are committed to full transparency and compliance with all legal requirements, ensuring that every candidate knows exactly what to expect at each stage of the recruitment process. Once the process is successfully completed, we will share detailed information about financial conditions and benefits with the selected candidate. Before signing the employment contract, you will receive all remaining details of the offer, giving you the time and space to review everything carefully
Apply now
Current employees apply here
Competitive salary and incentives
Well-being and care
Paid and unpaid leave
Flexible work options
Benefits that support your financial security
- Role:
- Lead AI Engineer - Digital Service Solutions
- Job Type:
- Senior Level | Data and Analytics
Company profile
Hitachi Energy
hitachienergy.comHitachi Energy works on the global energy system, aiming to make electricity more sustainable, secure, resilient and affordable and more accessible to all. Its technologies support the expansion and transition of power systems and grids, including HVDC transmission. The company is part of Hitachi Ltd. and traces its heritage to the engineering companies ASEA and Brown Boveri, through its predecessor company ABB. Hitachi Energy is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Founded
- 2018
- Funding Stage
- Subsidiary
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