Lead AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer

Hamburg - Germany

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 19 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Were looking for a Senior / Lead AI Engineer with deep generative AI expertise and solid software engineering foundations to help design and build intelligent multi-agent capabilities for enterprise applications across our client base. Our team runs in startup mode with high autonomy and a real opportunity to influence how advanced AI gets built and scaled in practice. You know what it takes to get AI into production and can navigate ambiguity technical complexity and cross-functional collaboration with confidence. You enjoy finding your own way to solve a problem.

Tasks

What Youll Do:
You can have it all: applied AI product engineering and tangible value creation.

Key responsibilities include:

AI delivery
Conceive and implement AI solutions across both customer-facing product features and internal back-office workflows.
LLM & RAG system development
Design and build LLM-based applications and RAG pipelines bringing together vector databases embeddings and semantic search to produce reliable context-aware results at scale.
AI agents for productivity & business automation
Create AI-driven agents and automations that simplify and accelerate customer workflows across CRMs ERPs ticketing platforms and other core business systems. Cut down on manual effort mistakes and turnaround times.
Enterprise architecture integration
Embed AI capabilities into existing cloud-native architectures APIs and data ecosystems with a focus on security resilience and scalability in production environments.
Cross-functional collaboration
Work hand-in-hand with product engineering and leadership teams on the client side to translate technical AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes.
Client advisory & solution design
Guide clients in shaping and executing their data AI and generative AI strategies. Cover everything from initial architecture decisions and technical direction through to live deployment.

Requirements

What Were Looking For:

Core experience:
4 years in software engineering AI or solutions roles with hands-on experience shipping production AI/LLM systems

Practical expertise across:

LLMs prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation
Agentic systems multi-agent orchestration and complex workflow automation
Vector search technologies and semantic retrieval
Python as a primary language plus proficiency in at least one of JavaScript/TypeScript/Java/Kotlin
AI platforms and developer tooling such as OpenAI Azure AI LangChain LlamaIndex Pinecone or Weaviate
Cloud infrastructure (Azure AWS) and delivery practices including Docker Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
Solid background in SaaS and enterprise software engineering settings
Strong verbal and written communication skills in German and English

How You Work
Hands-on pragmatic and delivery-focused

Comfortable working directly with clients and cross-functional stakeholders
Clear in communication documentation and technical decision-making
Curious about the AI space and motivated to stay close to emerging developments

Benefits

We are a small team learning every day about the opportunities and challenges at the forefront of applied AI

Become a part of a highly specialized team and network with a clear focus on strategic and practical AI implementation

This is for you if you enjoy a high degree of ownership entrepreneurial freedom and the opportunity to help shape new offerings and ventures

We offer:

A collaborative appreciative and inspiring team environment with real expertise from tech to transformation
An attractive compensation package including participation in the companys success

Work Structure

Location: Hamburg Germany
Working model: Predominantly remote with one day per week in our Hamburg city-centre office
Travel: Occasional visits to client locations
Environment: High autonomy meaningful impact and room to grow

At were building a team of thoughtful entrepreneurial people with different backgrounds and perspectives. What matters to us is: curiosity empathy good judgment and the ambition to create real impact with AI.

Because we are building our core team together it is important to us that you are based in Hamburg and able to work with us in person.