Senior AI/ML Engineer

Join the AI & Data Platform part of AI & Automation team to work on the most cutting-edge applied AI challenges, utilizing modern orchestration frameworks. You'll be instrumental in designing, owning, and deploying production-grade AI and LLM services, accelerating their integration into critical business workflows for massive impact. This role offers the unique opportunity to drive MLOps and LLMOps maturity and set the standard for reliable, scalable, and trusted AI products across the company.

We offer a hybrid working set-up either in Hirschau, Munich, (Berlin) or Krakau.

Your contribution to success

• Intelligent Architecture: Design and deploy production-ready AI services using frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.
• Rapid Automation Delivery: Accelerate time-to-value by connecting AI services to business workflows.
• LLMOPS, MLOps & Quality: Take full ownership of the lifecyclefrom concept to monitoringensuring all AI products are reliable, scalable, and fully tested.

What You Will Actually Be Doing:

• Engineer with the Latest Stack: Design and build AI-powered applications using modern AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex. Deliver the best tech stack, ensuring the team stays at the forefront of applied AI innovation
• Be a Workflow Disruptor: Leverage your hands-on experience with low-code automation platforms to rapidly prototype and deploy AI connectors that automate critical business processes.
• Proactively apply advanced prompt engineering techniques to iteratively optimize large language model (LLM) performance, ensuring output consistency, mitigating biases, and maximizing utility across diverse and complex use cases.
• Drive Reliability: Apply engineering rigorautomated tests (unit, integration, data validation), version control with reproducible builds, CI/CD, and end-to-end observabilityso models graduate from experimental notebooks to trusted, production-grade services.
• Demonstrate Value: Showcase a track record of process automationdemonstrating successfully applied AI delivering tangible operational efficiency gains.

Your success factors

• 3+ Years in a role focused on productionizing AI/ML solutions (e.g., AI/ML Engineer, Applied Data Scientist).
• Deep practical experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, or similar AI frameworks.
• Proven ability to design and implement robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systemscombining vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate) with document loaders, embeddings, and retrieval evaluation techniques.
• Strong Python expertise with production experience in frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, and deployment of containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid MLOps foundation and treating AI pipelines as scalable software.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and associated data services.
• A proven ability to leverage low-code tools like n8n, Langflow to accelerate deployment and integration.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, make architectural trade-offs, and drive AI product strategy through strong technical and business alignment.
• German language is a plus, Fluent English is neccessary

Your benefits

We Are a Great Place to Work

Our tolerant and empathic work environment enables you to help shape our companys future, thereby giving you lots of room for personal development. Our unique company culture was officially recognised by the Great Place to Work institute.

We Improve Your Work-Life Balance

Flexitime and hybrid working arrangements as well as a special leave allowance enable you to organise your workday around your needs. And we care about your children. Our head office in Hirschau operates a child day-care centre that looks after your little ones.

We Communicate at a Peer Level

We are a family-run business. Means friendly interaction is paramount to us. And when it comes to being a trust-based horizontal organisation, around here, we practise what we preach.

We Promote Health

Which is why we offer a variety of services and activities centred around health and fitness. Regular medical checkups are top of the agenda. Moreover, for all those who like to keep fit, there is Conrad Sports Club based at our Hirschau office that provides a range of activities, coaching sessions and even an in-house tennis court. Being healthy isnt just about exercising, its also about a balanced diet. This is why food served in our cafeterias at Hirschau and Wernberg uses local produce and is freshly prepared.