About the job
Gapstars, headquartered in the Netherlands, builds remote software development teams in Sri Lanka and Portugal. With over 300 TechStars, the company partners with ambitious tech firms to deliver scalable software solutions. Gapstars focuses on supporting businesses that aim to lead in their respective markets.
Role overview
This AI Engineer role is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The position combines software engineering with applied AI, centering on the development, evaluation, and maintenance of AI systems for production use. Much of the work addresses the needs of the life sciences sector, where reliability and measurable impact matter.
AI Engineers at Gapstars collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers. The team values practical automation, efficiency, and solutions that work in real-world conditions.
What you will do
- Build and deploy AI-powered applications, moving from prototype to production using modern large language model (LLM) frameworks and APIs.
- Design evaluation methods and metrics to assess real-world performance, focusing on accuracy, latency, user experience, and safety.
- Develop and refine Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines by integrating vector databases and large language models.
- Create and maintain data pipelines, retraining workflows, and monitoring tools to ensure models remain current and effective.
- Design and apply context engineering strategies that improve output quality and reduce hallucination risks.
- Work with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to understand business needs and build scalable, reliable systems.
- Apply agentic AI patterns, such as tool use, planning, and reflection loops, selecting the right level of complexity for each project.
- Promote strong engineering practices, including code reviews, testing, observability, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), and reproducibility.
- Ensure AI solutions comply with security, regulatory, and explainability standards.
