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AI & Platform Innovation Engineer

Vicoland


Job Location:

Leipzig - Germany

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 6 October 2026 (8 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Vicoland gives the professional services market a new dimension: Virtual Companies Vicos. We invented Vicos as a new type of supplier more efficient than traditional professional services firms (consultancies system integrators agencies etc.). We have received 20 million in round A financing.

Vicos may consist of freelancers SMEs and AI agents. They organize through our AI-driven SaaS platform to act like real companies competing successfully for large enterprise projects e g. ERP introductions or AI transformations. Vicos have proven to be more cost-efficient and to deliver better quality than traditional companies.

Already 120 Vicos with thousands of freelancers work on projects for enterprise clients like BASF Miele Siemens or Daimler and many SME. Forbes and Forrester have named Vicoland as a leading force transforming the market.

Our certified platform is key to our success. It provides the full digital infrastructure which makes Vicos come true as a new form to organize human labor and human-agentic interaction. It covers end-to-end all essential areas: marketing finance legal and organization.

Given its ambitious and transformative purpose our platform is highly complex (though easy use). Developing it further takes engineers who combine technical excellence pragmatic judgement and entrepreneurial spirit. The AI & Platform Innovation Engineer we are looking for embodies these qualities. He or she is up for making a major contribution to our company and to our society.

Tasks
  • Develop AI-agentic solutions from scratch or integrating existing agents and foundational technologies. This involves close cooperation with our Business Development team and other users.
  • Use AI to aggressively ship high-quality code. Architect and build AIfirst software solutions for complex userstories: scalable robust maintainable.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to deliver endtoend innovations.
  • Own the full development pipeline: from design and development through QA and deployment to production monitoring.
  • Lead architectural discussions code reviews and retrospectives; mentor fellow engineers.
  • Champion AIpowered features: integrate LLMs RAG pipelines agentic workflows embeddings and deep learning frameworks to unlock business value.
Requirements
  • Have excelled somewhere somehow through an impacting technical contribution one which we can talk about.
  • Have experience in developing AI agents and integrating them into workflows.
  • Be on top of the latest tools models and trends in AI-assisted software engineering. We expect you to be amazing at context engineering (incl. prompting) to know when to leverage different models and to have first-hand experience with Claude Code or Cursor.
  • Know how to evaluate what you build. You can design eval sets work with LLM-as-judge or ground-truth data and use tracing and observability tooling to find and fix regressions.
  • Have handson record of building productiongrade software preferably with AI components (LLMs embeddings PyTorch/TensorFlow RAG pipelines autonomous agents).
  • Practice a truly agnostic approach to stack and tools: you pick the right tech for the problem not viceversa.
  • Show exceptional autonomy: your are able to selfdrive from idea to finished product yet know when to collaborate and escalate.
  • Have the ability to thoughtfully challenge ideas and drive constructive discussions (colleagues product owners CTO).
  • Be a strong respectful team player: highly autonomous but grounded in humility and partnership.
  • Reside within 3 hours of Central European Time (to enable effective collaboration) at best in one of our office locations in Barcelona Berlin Frankfurt Leipzig and Sevilla.
  • Full professional proficiency in English at C2 level

Bonus

  • Prior experience integrating AI into SaaS business workflows.
  • Familiarity with modern AItooling ecosystem (agents memory systems vector databases).
  • Experience leading a tech team or architecting across the stack from frontend to infrastructure.
  • Professional proficiency in German.
Benefits
  • Youll work in an international closely knit team of highperformers and entrepreneurial spirits.
  • Remotefriendly flexible work hours.
  • Excellent compensation participation in the company through our ESOP.
  • Growth mindset: Hard skills are important but mindset matters more. If you meet most of the requirements and youre hungry to learn apply anyway.

If youre a highimpact engineer who thrives on autonomy drives real results and is passionate about applying AI to change how teams work lets talk. Even if you dont check every bullet above but you bring exceptional drive creativity and a growth mindset please apply we believe the right mindset counts more than checkboxes.


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Through our innovative SaaS business model, we enable the world's highly skilled and growing gig economy to work on large-scale digital projects in teams.

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