Finnair is a diverse community of professionals who work ambitiously with a big heart and commitment. A strong safety culture is our priority and at the core of our everyday work, never taking it for granted. We are committed to doing our share in solving the climate challenge by determinedly following our science-based pathway to decarbonize our operations. Our values - Always Safe, Customer at Heart, Stronger Together - guide us in everything we do.
We are looking for a
(SENIOR) AI / ML ENGINEER
to join Finnair's Enterprise AI team in Digital Unit in Finnair HQ near Helsinki Airport. Enterprise AI team is part of Finnair's Digital Enterprise team, which play a crucial role in supporting Finnair's Finance & Procurement, People & Culture and other Group Functions as well as helping to scale AI capabilities to meet the unique needs of the organization.
Enterprise AI team's mission is to seamlessly integrate AI into daily work, delivering reliable, effective, and creative solutions that enhance workplace experience. Additionally, the team is responsible for scaling AI capabilities to address the distinct needs of the organization and drive AI innovation collectively across the business. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Finnair team!
As a (Senior) AI / ML Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end ML pipelines covering data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and serving promotion of ML solutions across development, staging, and production environments using infrastructure-as-code principles. You will ensure environment parity, reproducibility, and traceability through containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent).
Your tasks include but are not limited to:
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Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to translate business needs into AI/ML solutions
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Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, cloud services best practices, enhancements or deprecations, security considerations, MLOps practices
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Ensure reliability, scalability, security, responsible AI compliance, and production issues resolution
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Architect, create and document scalable end-to-end pipelines for multi-environment solution deployment, monitoring and operationalization
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Design and maintain scalable feature engineering, training, evaluation, and inference pipelines for custom models
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Maintain IaC for AWS and Azure environments, encompassing cloud resource lifecycle management, federated identity integration, networking, and the implementation of security and governance controls
Required skills:
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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
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Proficiency in modern software engineering (Python, JavaScript, containers, CI/CD, cloud-native services) and agile delivery practices.
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Practical experience of AWS multi-account IaC architectures and Azure configurations including networking, security and governance
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Applied GenAI knowledge: RAG pipelines, GenAI frameworks, vector search, LLM fine-tuning, and agentic orchestration - sufficient to design and right-size the infrastructure those workloads need.
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Knowledge on infrastructure testing frameworks (e.g. cdk_nag)
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3+ years of cloud development; experience in applied AI/ML. GenAI solution architecture is a plus
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Strong problem-solving and communication skills for cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder alignment
Working at Finnair:
We offer you an exciting opportunity in the multifaced, fast changing aviation and travel industry, along with great team and wide personal development opportunities. At Finnair ambitious, competent and motivated people can really make a difference.
We are happy to enable our employees to enrich their lives and fulfill their travel dreams by offering a wide leisure travel benefit. We also support the health and wellbeing of our employees through our own Sickness Fund insurance benefit, Epassi (sport, culture, wellbeing and commuting benefit), gyms around the Finnair campus and activities organized by our hobby clubs.
Are you interested? Please submit your application with your CV, cover letter and salary expectation no later than Sunday 10 May 2026. We may start going through the applications already during the application period.
In case you have any questions about the role, please contact Terry Rim (Head of Enterprise AI) by email [email protected] phone +358451683004.
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited approaches from recruitment agencies or third-party providers."
Please note that the hiring process includes a pre-employment security clearance and a drug test
Please note that we do not process applications submitted via email.
Our people are key to our success and the foundation that makes Finnair unique. We are committed to creating a safe work environment where all our people can thrive and succeed. We cherish diversity and strive to employ people with different backgrounds and experiences, to bring together multiple views to foster our business success. According to our employee survey, respecting diversity is at a high level in our work community. You are welcome to join Finnair as your authentic self.