Senior AI Application Engineer (all genders)

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the complete development lifecycle of AI tools and features, from understanding the problem and discovery to building, launching, and iterating.

• Create and manage AI-driven internal products, tools, and workflows.

• Identify opportunities for operational leverage and swiftly implement effective solutions.

• Design and execute workflows based on LLM, including tool calling/agents, error management, fallbacks, and optimization of cost and latency.

• Construct code-driven frontends and tool architectures.

• Develop testing methodologies; manage bug triage, monitoring/observability, releases, and incidents.

• Connect internal and external systems through APIs.

• Create feedback loops with stakeholders and end users, structuring and prioritizing requirements accordingly.

• Establish RAG and knowledge frameworks, encompassing data and document preparation, retrieval quality, and assessment.

• Maintain documentation of decisions and systems via decision logs/ADRs and instructional guides.

• Collaborate closely with Business Operations and product stakeholders to ensure alignment, manage expectations, and foster adoption.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in developing and managing software and automation solutions with a strong sense of ownership.

• Preferably, experience with AI/LLM-related products or tools.

• Proficient in code-based frontend development and architecture.

• Solid understanding of prompting, tool calling/agents, RAG principles, evaluation, and guardrails.

• Knowledge of API design and integrations, including authentication, permissions, rate limits, secrets, and error management.

• Familiarity with observability/operations, logging, metrics/alerts, release management, and quality assurance.

• Adherence to clear architecture, modularity, interfaces, naming/standards, and refactoring as standard practice.

• Strong orientation towards product and business needs.

• Independent and structured work approach while managing multiple parallel requests.

• Excellent written and spoken German, at least at C1 level.

• Proficient in written and spoken English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours with the possibility to work from home.

• 30 days of annual leave.

• Up to 3 months of workation.

• Sabbatical of up to two months.

• Tax-free benefit allowance or EGYM Wellpass providing access to over 8,000 sports and wellness activities.

• Tax-free meal allowance of €7.50 per day.

• Complimentary drinks and snacks.

• Monthly mobility allowance of €32 for local public transport.

• Numerous team and after-work events throughout the year.

• Modern, well-lit office in Munich with excellent public transport links.

• Company MacBook provided for work purposes.

• Collaborative work environment with flat hierarchies.

• Engaging projects.