Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Software, Data
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will architect and implement complex production-grade AI solutions for industrial clients, promote engineering excellence, and mentor engineers in a dynamic, cross-disciplinary environment.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You build the AI systems other engineers learn from. At appliedAI, our industrial engagements sit at the demanding intersection of regulated environments, plant-grade infrastructure, and rapidly evolving AI capability - and you thrive there.
- In this role, you take end-to-end ownership of production AI delivery for our most complex industrial clients, while setting the engineering standard that elevates the entire AI Engineering team.
- Your tasks will include:
- Architecting and implementing production-grade AI solutions for industrial clients - spanning classical ML, GenAI applications, validated RAG, and agentic systems - with deliberate attention to OT/edge constraints, validation gates, on-prem and hybrid deployments, and MLOps maturity.
- Defining and championing engineering excellence across the team: code quality, design reviews, evaluation harnesses, observability, security, and MLOps standards.
- Leading technical delivery from target architecture through production hardening and client handover, working in close collaboration with engagement leads on scope and value.
- Building reusable engineering accelerators - templates, libraries, and evaluation frameworks - that multiply the impact of the wider AI Engineering team.
- Mentoring mid-level and senior engineers, facilitating technical guilds, and driving a culture of shared knowledge and continuous improvement.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep engineering foundation across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud-native architecture (Azure, AWS, or GCP), containers, CI/CD, and MLOps.
- Starke Kenntnisse in Python und dem modernen AI-Stack – einschließlich PyTorch, LangChain/LangGraph, Vektor-Datenbanken, Evaluierungsframeworks und Plattformen wie Azure AI Foundry.
- Pragmatic and code-first in your approach; opinionated about quality, evaluation, security, and operational maturity.
- Fluent in English; working proficiency in German is a strong plus.
Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years building and operating AI/ML systems in production environments.
- A demonstrable track record leading complex, end-to-end AI engineering in client-facing settings - experience in industrial or regulated contexts is a strong advantage.
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What we offer
- A highly qualified and motivated team of approximately 90 people is on a journey to change the rapidly evolving European AI landscape.
- Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model: You can choose to work from our vibrant offices - either at the IPAI in Heilbronn or the House of Communication in Munich - while also enjoying the flexibility to work remotely a few days each week.
- Opportunity to shape a variety of projects and the development of new, original content based on the latest developments in AI and its adoption in businesses.
- An atmosphere that encourages thinking and experimenting in new ways with software, hardware, and processes.
- A highly visible initiative that helps you build a large and high-level network of start-ups, partners, and tech companies.
- No fixed budget for growth - you decide how you want to develop, whether through training, certifications, conferences, or new challenges.
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appliedAI
Founded in 2017 in Munich, appliedAI Initiative GmbH supports companies in implementing trustworthy AI technologies and serves as a platform for cooperation between various sectors.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Principal AI Software Engineer
- Location
- Munich
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
