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,

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

Let’s build something big together! 🚀

Compensation Range: €70K - €90K