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TUM Venture Labs – Expert AI Infrastructure & Frontier Models (mfd)
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29 September 2026 (4 days ago)
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27 December 2026
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Job Summary
About us
AI Triangle is a joint initiative of TUM Venture Labs the ETH AI Center IPAI and Campus Founders backed by TU Munich and ETH Zürich. Further AI entrepreneurship centers and universities will join. Our mission: to build a leading AI cluster spanning Baden-Württemberg Bavaria and Switzerland - one that turns the regions research excellence into globally relevant companies. Our philosophy in three words: Research. Build. Scale.
The Opportunity
We are hiring an Expert AI Infrastructure & Frontier Models to drive the Build phase. Your job: create the formats and support structures that let founders and hubs turn academic breakthroughs into frontier AI solutions and the next generation of AI companies - across key hubs and their partner institutions.
Concretely you build the formats that:
This is a deliberate hybrid role and we want to be honest about that up front. It joins two profiles that rarely coexist in a single person:
The Opportunity
We are hiring an Expert AI Infrastructure & Frontier Models to drive the Build phase. Your job: create the formats and support structures that let founders and hubs turn academic breakthroughs into frontier AI solutions and the next generation of AI companies - across key hubs and their partner institutions.
Concretely you build the formats that:
- Lower the barriers to infrastructure inference data and evaluation and
- Spark innovation around frontier models and platforms.
This is a deliberate hybrid role and we want to be honest about that up front. It joins two profiles that rarely coexist in a single person:
- The deep technical judgment on large-scale AI infrastructure to build and run frontier AI models (pre- and post-training inference data engineering evaluation...)
- The instinct to strategically build solutions with ecosystem partners that help researchers and founders to overcome the hurdles
Your mission
- Drive hub collaboration: align technical leads across the hubs and lead flagship projects that catalyze real cross-border cooperation.
- Shape frontier model development: Define approaches to frontier model development with partners and founders that address the current challenges.
- Build the open innovation layer: create sandboxes APIs and formats so the next wave of builders starts faster.
- Enable future founders and startups: design the education and support formats that help teams scale models data and compute into products.
- Map and improve the landscape: continuously analyze the compute data model architectures training approaches and evaluation resources across the Triangle and close the gaps.
- Coordinate compute access: secure fair workable access across STACKIT ALPS KI Service-Centers and cloud providers for founders and startups.
- Steer data and evaluation: manage shared training-data access develop sector-specific benchmarks and scale evaluation know-how across the network.
Your profile
- Technical depth: you are a senior expert in ML training and infrastructure from data to pre- and post-trainiang inference MLOps and cloud.
- Credibility and network: you have the standing to build trust with leading universities entrepreneurship centers and high-growth startups and to be taken seriously as a peer.
- Strategic clarity: you turn complex infrastructure challenges into strategies that work across an entire ecosystem.
- Bridge-building: you connect deep-tech research with applied technology build trusted relationships with founders and partners and spar with them on hard decisions - with empathy and clarity.
- Languages: fluent German and English written and spoken.
What we offer
- Direct work with world-class researchers leading universities
and the next generation of deep-tech startups - Hands-on involvement with frontier compute such as ALPS and STACKIT
to power next-generation models - Real room for ownership creativity and strategic influence
- An experienced open-minded team with flat hierarchies
- Flexible working hours and remote-work options
- A generous budget for internal and external training Wellpass & monthly mobility budget
Diversity is important to us
Diversity makes our team stronger. We warmly encourage all qualified people to apply regardless of gender social or ethnic background sexual orientation religion age or disability.
Contact
Carina Schreyer
Head of People & Culture
Lichtenbergstraße 6 85748 Garching/München
Head of People & Culture
Lichtenbergstraße 6 85748 Garching/München
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