As a Principal AI Engineer, you will lead the delivery of mission-critical AI solutions at enterprise scale, setting technical standards and making key decisions on frameworks, tools, and technical patterns. You will design, review, and harden services integrating ML/LLM components with strict SLOs, security guardrails, and observability, and scale solutions from PoC to multi-tenant, production deployments.
Requirements
- STEM degree (preferably Computer Science or Engineering)
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping and operating production systems with AI/LLM components
- Expert Python skills and proficiency in at least two additional language (e.g., C, C++, Go, Java, or TypeScript/Node.js)
- Deep experience with APIs/microservices, event-driven systems, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, and at least two major clouds.
- Proven track record owning SLOs/SLAs, observability, cost/performance optimization, and incident management
- Strong ML/LLM integration experience (serving, retrieval/RAG, evaluation) and applied security/safety guardrails
- Proven experience technically leading projects and large customer engagements with measurable outcomes
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills
- Fluent English, ideally fluent in German
Benefits
- Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model
- Opportunity to shape a variety of projects and the development of new, original content based on the latest developments in AI and its adoption in businesses
- An atmosphere that encourages to think and experiment in new ways with software, hardware, and processes
- Hottest topics of the next decade and freedom and trust to initiate own activities
- A highly visible initiative that helps you build a large and high-level network of start-ups, partners, and tech companies
- Sports membership with Wellpass to access thousands of sports facilities all over Germany (and beyond)
- JobRad leasing option
- Up to 3 months sabbatical after 3 years of employment
