Senior AI Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Develop MAIA, an AI platform designed for businesses.

• Take ownership of features from initial prototyping through ongoing enhancements using user feedback and usage analytics.

• Design chat and agent interactions for multi-step tasks that provide traceable progress and verifiable outcomes.

• Integrate external systems to utilize knowledge from diverse file formats.

• Ensure that responses include references and adhere to existing access rights.

• Incorporate new language models while assessing their quality, cost, and speed.

• Create assessments to identify errors and enhance responses and agents.

• Develop isolated environments for executing code and tools.

• Optimize response times and data handling for extensive knowledge bases.

• Collaborate with product management to refine ideas and address challenges.

• Engage in agentic development by critically reviewing coding-agent plans and outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven backend software engineering experience in building, deploying, and maintaining production systems over an extended period.

• Knowledge of architecture, API design, data modeling, and asynchronous processing.

• Strong proficiency in at least one of TypeScript, Python, or Go; experience with a statically typed language is preferred.

• Hands-on experience developing real applications with LLMs, whether professionally or through complex personal projects.

• Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, vector search, and tool invocation, including awareness of their limitations.

• Experience in testing and evaluating nondeterministic systems.

• Product-focused mindset with the ability to contribute to initial concept development.

• Regular experience working with coding agents in development tasks.

• A security-oriented approach, including considerations for tenant isolation, access rights, and secure development practices.

• Proactive communication and documentation in a remote work setting.

• Ability to communicate technical subjects clearly to product management, customer success, and sales teams.

• Proficiency in English.

• Knowledge of German is an advantage.

• Residency in Germany is required.

• No management responsibilities for personnel are necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• 28 days of paid annual leave.

• Virtual equity in the company’s VSOP.

• Access to the latest frontier models and coding agents.

• Support for professional development training tailored to your growth.

• Membership in Wellpass.

• Flexible start times.

• Biannual in-person team gatherings.

• Occasional team days in Leipzig.

• A probationary period of 6 months.