Principal AI Engineer (mfx) Focus Software Engineering
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Job Summary
About us
The appliedAI Initiative elevates Europes industry to become shapers in the age of AI creating a future that we desire to live in. Through our ecosystem of strong partners comprehensive programs services and solutions we advance companies holistically on their AI journey. With our uniquely diverse interdisciplinary and driven team we build on deep technical expertise while specializing on applicability of the solutions. We share a mindset of collaboration and openness with our ecosystem of leading companies and tech players. Our common goal is to strengthen the European landscape jointly creating unique knowledge for applying trustworthy AI. We believe that AI Agents will be the dominant topic for AI in the near future and that appliedAI with its partner ecosystem will impact how this technology is being used in industry and beyond in Europe.
Your mission
As a Principal AI Engineer in Professional Services you set the technical bar and lead the delivery of mission-critical AI solutions at enterprise scale. You define engineering standards de-risk complex programs and remain hands-on where it matters most. The focus is software engineering and heavy-duty enterprise solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
Your responsibilities will include:
- Own end-to-end technical strategy for complex engagements; ensure architectural coherence quality and operational excellence; delivery for critical AI programs making key decisions on frameworks tools and technical patterns to deliver high-quality production-ready software and systems
- Design review and harden services integrating ML/LLM components with strict SLOs security guardrails and observability. Proactively experiment with and integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies (such as agent frameworks RAG architectures and cloud-native solutions) to continuously improve performance and reliability
- Scale solutions from PoC to multi-tenant production deployments; drive cost latency and reliability optimizations
- Create and maintain reusable accelerators templates and reference implementations to speed up delivery across clients
- Partner with customers strategists and PMs in pre-sales and delivery (workshops solution options estimations and statements of work)
- Mentor and coach engineers; uplift engineering practices testing rigor CI/CD and documentation standards across teams
- Provide technical leadership for large customer engagements with measurable outcomes
Your profile
- 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/)
- 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
What we offer
- A highly qualified and motivated team of 90 people on a journey to change the rapidly evolving European AI Landscape.
- Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model: You can choose to work from our vibrant offices - either at the IPAI in Heilbronn or the House of Communication in Munich - while also enjoying the flexibility to work remotely a few days each week
- 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 toinitiateown activities
- A highly visible initiative that helps you build a large and high-level network of start-ups partners and tech companies
- Sports membership withWellpassto access thousands of sports facilities all over Germany (and beyond)
- JobRadleasingoption
- You can take a sabbatical of up to 3 months after 3 years of employment - because sometimes 30 vacation days are not enough to explore the beauty of this world.
Contact
Lucas Fernandes - Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
appliedAI Initiative GmbH August-Everding-Str.München
appliedAI Initiative GmbH August-Everding-Str.München
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Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
