Senior AI Engineer (m/w/d)

About us

From AI strategy to implementation, we develop innovative solutions. With expertise in AI Strategy, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Data & AI Engineering, and AI Infrastructure, we support organizations throughout their entire AI transformation journey.

Our goal: Creating value from Data & AI.

Our AI Development department serves as a facilitator for Data & AI transformation. We are taking a holistic approach, from the initial evaluation of AI maturity, through the design and development of data and AI solutions, to the practical implementation and scaling of AI solutions. Through our deep expertise in Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, we ensure that our clients gain the maximum value from their data.

Your tasks

• As part of customer projects, you design Generative AI and NLP systems that effectively address customer challenges and use cases in terms of performance, latency, cost, scalability, and complexity
• You regularly engage with various stakeholders and customer representatives, ensuring close collaboration and alignment
• You act as a developer, expert, or technical lead and work on diverse use cases, such as knowledge management with retrieval-augmented chatbots, implementing agent systems, or fine-tuning language models to enhance the efficiency of an NLP pipeline or process domain-specific language
• You will guide as a Technical Lead less experienced team members, support their work, and provide constructive feedback and mentorship
• You will contribute as an expert to multiple projects as needed to solve complex problems
• You plan and implement robust, scalable, and high-performance ML pipelines following the latest ML Ops and LLM-Ops best practices, working across various infrastructures, including Azure, AWS, and GCP
• You support the development of products, contribute to expanding our service portfolio, and assist in creating marketing content
• You present solution proposals and handle technical communication with customer representatives during the acquisition process
• You will have dedicated time to follow the latest developments in the field of NLP and AI (e.g., on repositories, methods, tools, papers) and stay up to date in order to offer the best solutions to our customers

Your profile

• You have extensive knowledge and at least 5 years of experience in Machine Learning & Deep Learning, especially with respect to Transformers, LLMs and generative AI
• You bring experience in applying common tools and methods for handling NLP use-cases such as LLM APIs (OpenAI Responses API, Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry), Frameworks (Instructor, Langchain, Langgraph, etc), HF Transformers+Tokenizers, vector databases, model deployment, inferenceservers, MCP/A2A, and dataset creation
• You have experience in productive use of agent frameworks such as Langgraph, SmolAgents, OpenAI Agent SDK, CrewAI, PydanticAI and knowledge of typical LLM-based workflows such as conversational AI, RAG, information extraction, tool-calling uses, and LLM-based evaluation
• You have initial experience as a technical lead
• You acquired knowledge of, and ideally hands-on experience with, state-of-the-art approaches such as agentic RAG, graphRAG, multi-agent workflows, text-to-2SQL, and code retrieval
• You have knowledge of PEFT (e.g. QLoRA), IFT, inference time tuning, post-training, embeddings, and a solid foundational knowledge of frameworks such as PyTorch
• You are able to write clean, performant, and extensible code and successfully bring AI systems into production
• You have experience with cloud-based deployments and MLOps workflows on platforms such as Azure, GCP, or AWS
• You provide technical guidance and leadership, including mentoring and supporting less experienced team members
• You are a strong communicator with very good German (at least B2) and excellent English (C1 or higher). You can prepare and present complex topics appropriately for both technical and business audiences
• You stand out through reliability, thoroughness, and a structured approach to your work
• You enjoy occasional business trips to visit customers on site in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Our offer

• Data Science & AI consulting as core business with exciting projects and state-of-the art NLP use cases at well-known customers
• Interesting professional challenges, steep learning curve, further expansion of your expertiseand opportunity to take over responsibility
• Extensive methodological and personal development opportunities
• Small, dynamic team with flat hierarchies
• Short decision-making paths and agile processes
• Performance-based, attractive compensation package
• A modern, high-quality furnished office that invites you to exchange ideas and linger, as well as the opportunity to work flexibly from other locations, including up to 4 weeks from other EU countries
• Reduced public transport ticket (Jobticket Deutschland) and access to a wide range of sports and wellness offers (Wellpass) at a reasonable price
• And many other benefits, such as Apple IT equipment (MacBook Pro), regular team events, employee discounts, childcare support, free drinks, fruit and snacks

Your application

Simply apply via the application form and attach your current CV including a description of your methodological skills. We will contact you as soon as possible. If you have any questions on your application, you can reach us at [email protected].

What is particularly important to us is that we value the uniqueness of each person and always treat each other as equals. Different backgrounds, attitudes and ideas enrich us and form the basis of our success. That's why we welcome every application - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.