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At SQUER, we help our customers unlock the potential of AI through real-world software solutions - not by building custom models from scratch, but by applying LLMs, cloud-native AI services, and smart engineering. Join our Product Delivery Unit and lead how applied AI enhances modern digital products.Your tasks\n AI-Powered Product Architecture: Design and own the architecture of AI-enhanced software products using modern cloud services and frameworks (e.g., Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, LangChain).\n Applied LLM Expertise: Apply Large Language Models (LLMs), cognitive services, and related technologies to solve complex, high-impact customer problems independently.\nCustomer Consulting: Lead workshops and technical discussions with product managers, designers, and customer stakeholders, representing SQUER with confidence and identifying where AI adds measurable value.\nScalable Systems Design: Architect scalable data pipelines and APIs that power intelligent features in production-grade environments, taking full technical ownership.\nTechnical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and develop engineers within your team, shape our applied AI engineering practices, and ensure project and team success.\nThought Leadership: Represent SQUER's applied AI expertise externally - through client relationships, internal knowledge-sharing, or community engagement.\nYour qualifications\n Extensive Software Engineering Experience: Several years of hands-on and architectural experience in software engineering (e.g., Python, Java, C#, JS/TS, or similar).\n Applied AI Depth: Proven, independent experience applying AI services in production (e.g., LLMs, NLP APIs, cognitive services), not just experimenting.\nCloud Platform Ownership: Confident designing and deploying AI-driven features on AWS, GCP, or Azure at production scale.\n Data & API Architecture: Strong understanding of data processing, APIs, and databases (SQL & NoSQL), with the ability to make architectural decisions independently.\nLeadership & Mentorship: Ability to guide, coach, and develop other engineers, and to take responsibility for a team's delivery and satisfaction.\nCustomer-Facing Confidence: Comfortable representing SQUER independently to customers with a high degree of professionalism.\nLanguages: Fluency in German and English.\nYour Benefits\nWhy You'll Love Working at SQUER:Ownership & Responsibility: at SQUER, we believe in empowering our team. In our flat hierarchies, your ideas and actions matter more than titles. Take the reins, make an impact and grow with us.\nLearn & Grow: Tap into a € 5.000 annual training budget to sharpen your skills and take advantage of our in-house Leadership Academy. Join and be part of our active tech community through meetups, hackathons and training sessions. Get up to 40h/year additional time off for your personal education.\nExciting Challenges & Real Impact: Dive into diverse projects where your work truly makes a difference - for our clients and for SQUER.\nFlexibility for Performance: Benefit from hybrid work options, flexible hours, workations within the EU, and additional vacation days - giving you the freedom to perform at your best.\n Tailored Tools for Success: Choose your preferred hardware configuration and leverage our suite of AI tools and licenses (Anthropic, OpenAI, and more) to suit your working style.\nWe Value You: Beyond perks and benefits, we offer a competitive annual salary to recognize your exceptional contributions.\nBe Part of a Thriving Team Culture: At SQUER, collaboration and connection are at the heart of what we do. Through open communication, shared successes, and meaningful team events - including our annual SQUER offsite - we cultivate a culture where everyone feels valued and inspired to grow together.\n A Perks-Packed Workplace: Work in a central office with a spacious terrace and BBQ, enjoy free lunch in the office, MyClubs sports membership, and either a free “Wiener Linien” ticket or a partial contribution to the “Klimaticket”. Plus, benefit from free massages, referral bonuses, Corporate Benefits, and JobRad. Annual employee presents and a monthly team breakfast add extra value to your work experience.\nWe believe in transparent and fair compensation. 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