Lead AI Engineer

Are you a hands-on technical leader who enjoys shaping the architecture of advanced AI systems while diving into the code yourself Do you want to build an AI platform and inspire a team of engineers Then this role as Lead AI Engineer / Hands-on Architect for our in-house startup iO Bonzai is perfect for you!

Youll combine the energy and speed of a startup with the clients stability and resources of iO. We are looking someone to join our office in Lead AI Engineer youll help determine the technical direction of our AI & Automation platform. Youll be responsible for architecture code quality and technical innovation. Youll coach engineers tackle complex technical challenges yourself and ensure we implement state-of-the-art AI technology.

Youll be part of the multidisciplinary product development team (AI Engineers Cloud Operations Product Manager) and work closely with the product manager and Group AI director.

iO Bonzai is our proprietary AI & Automation platform that makes the power of AI accessible to both internal teams and external clients. Its an ecosystem where we make generative AI available through Chat Apps and Connect.

What youll do

• Design and build the technical architecture of the iO Bonzai platform with focus on scalability reliability innovation and security

• Build alongside the team - youre hands-on and write code yourself where needed

• Provide technical leadership to a team of AI Engineers and stimulate their growth

• Implement cutting-edge AI technologies: agentic AI workflows multi-agent orchestration RAG systems and conversational AI

• Develop AI automation workflows using tools like n8n and MCP (Model Context Protocol)

• Integrate diverse AI models (Azure OpenAI Google Gemini Anthropic) via LiteLLM and LangChain

• Build observability and monitoring with Langfuse for production-ready AI systems

• Ensure code quality through reviews best practices and technical documentation

• Collaborate with Cloud Operations on robust Azure infrastructure (API Management Azure OpenAI)

• Evaluate and adopt new AI technologies - you stay ahead of the curve and translate innovations to practical implementations

• Support the Product Manager in translating business requirements to technical solutions

• 7 years of experience as Software Engineer AI Engineer Software Architect or Solutions Architect with proven technical leadership

• Strong hands-on coding skills - you can still write production-quality code yourself. Both Python and Typescript.

• Deep knowledge of AI/ML technologies: LLMs prompt engineering RAG vector databases embeddings

• Experience with AI orchestration frameworks like LangChain (Python/JS) or similar

• Familiarity with modern AI tooling (preferably: MCP n8n LiteLLM Langfuse MCP Context Forge)

• Experience with cloud platforms particularly Azure (Azure OpenAI API Management Container Apps)

• Knowledge of conversational AI and building chat-based applications (e.g. LibreChat)

• Strong architectural thinking - you can design scalable maintainable systems

• Leadership and coaching skills - you inspire and develop engineers

• High degree of Gen AI adoption - you actively use AI tools in your daily work (vibe coding AI pair programming)

• Excellent communication skills in English

• Startup mentality - youre comfortable with ambiguity and can move fast

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architectures

• Knowledge of security and compliance (ISO 27001 GDPR data isolation)

• Experience with automation and workflow orchestration (n8n Zapier Make)

• Contributions to open-source AI projects

• Experience with vector databases

Whats in it for you

26 days of vacation days

Based on a 40-hour work week you have 26 days of paid leave.

Additional Health And Dental Insurance

Covering patient and outpatient care health and dental care reimbursement of costs for prescribed medicines pregnancy and birth coverage.

Hybrid working

A good work-life balance is super important. Together with your team youll decide when and where you work.

Healthy office snacks and specialty coffee

At our campus we provide fresh fruits healthy snacks and specialty coffee beverages throughout the day.

Personal training budget

Each year youll get a budget of 3000 to develop yourself in your profession or as a person through training events or courses.

Celebrating together

If theres something to celebrate we know how to party! From time to time the party team at your campus will organise the best (theme) parties.

What we offer

Knowledge forms the basis of everything you do at iO. Youll grow by working on the most innovative AI platform in the market. Youll shape your personal growth path completely yourself supported by a personal development budget. Additionally youll participate in various AI initiatives Expert Groups and innovation projects.

Interested Apply now and lets explore how you can lead the technical development of iO Bonzai together.