Senior AI Engineer (F/M/*)

From Europe, for Europe – we are building the leading business AI.

We are Cologne's fastest-growing AI start-up.

SMEs benefit when internal knowledge becomes immediately usable and intelligent agents can respond to it. We believe in a future where business AI – including agents within amber and other platforms – works on a shared context layer, enabling teams to work faster, handoffs to be seamless, and expertise to remain within the company.

Your Tasks

• You integrate, fine-tune, and deploy multimodal models (vision & language) that directly improve product quality, speed, and scalability

• You evaluate and benchmark frontier models on industry-specific datasets to ensure they perform where it matters for our users strategies

• You Evaluate and benchmark frontier models on industry-specific datasets to ensure they perform where it matters for our users

• You develop fast, lightweight AI systems that reduce latency in search and generation

• You stay ahead of the curve by researching and applying techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and open-source SOTA

• You collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and customer teams to turn business goals into smart, AI-powered features

• You guide technical experimentation and champion innovation from small model tweaks to introducing entirely new architectures

Your Qualifiactions

• You have deep expertise in Large Language Models and their real-world applications; from fine-tuning to evaluation and production deployment

• You have at least five years of hands-on experience with deep learning (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX), including training, scaling, and debugging neural networks

• You’ve built and tested your own model architectures, and supervised training on large-scale compute clusters or cloud infrastructure

• You’re fluent in at least one compiled or strongly typed language (e.g. Java, C++, C#, Rust) and have a solid foundation in systems-level thinking

• You can work confidently with GitOps practices, CI/CD workflows, and collaborative engineering environments

• You have hands-on experience using AI in your everyday life inlcuding image generation, code generation classification, etc.

• You are fluent in English and German

• You have published papers at international conferences or journals about deep neural networks and their applications

Nice to have: You already had the chance of taking on the challenges of an AI-based B2B startup

Your Benefits

• Team offsites – Since you will be working in an international team, we all meet twice a year somewhere in Europe

• Attractive and performance-based remuneration with big fixed and additional variable. In addition, we reward outstanding employees with company shares, allowing them to participate directly in the company's success

• Start at a company that lets you grow – whether you want to develop your skills in the field or learn new ones

• We promote your personal development through further training and room for personal responsibility

• We live a hybrid working model: we believe it is important to work together in person on a regular basis. That's why we meet three times a week at one of our locations

• The choice is yours: either a subsidised Germany-wide Deutschlandticket or an Urban Sports Club membership are on us

• A team of motivated people who are keen to make AI solutions accessible to medium-sized companies

• Work with the latest technologies and tools 🔨

Want to make a difference? Then come on board. Just send us your CV or LinkedIn profile, it's easy via JOIN.

Please note: that we are only looking for candidates located in Germany for this role.

Let’s build something big together! 🚀