AI Engineer jobs in Germany

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Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland

Posted: 10/21/2026
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Speechify

Software Engineer, AI Data

Speechify

Posted: 10/20/2026
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Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland

Posted: 10/19/2026
CloudPyTorchTensorflow
Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland

Posted: 10/19/2026
CloudPyTorchTensorflow
Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland

Posted: 10/19/2026
CloudPyTorchTensorflow
DAI Software GmbH i.G.

Engineer, Software Architect, AI Practitioner

DAI Software GmbH i.G.

Posted: 10/18/2026
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RSE+ GmbH

Lead AI Architect, Engineer

RSE+ GmbH

Posted: 10/16/2026
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TheSoul Group

Client Deployment Lead, AI

TheSoul Group

Posted: 10/16/2026
plotdesk

Director of Customer Growth – AI Platform

plotdesk

Posted: 10/15/2026
Neurawork

AI Engineer – Consulting, Implementation

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Posted: 10/15/2026
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Mindrift

Freelance Mechanical CFD Engineer – AI Trainer

Mindrift

Posted: 10/14/2026
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Mindrift

CAD Engineer – AI Trainer

Mindrift

Posted: 10/14/2026
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Mindrift

CFD Engineer – AI Trainer

Mindrift

Posted: 10/13/2026
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Mindrift

Freelance Mechanical CAD, Simulation Engineer – AI Trainer

Mindrift

Posted: 10/13/2026
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Alpas AI

Senior AI Engineer

Alpas AI

Posted: 10/12/2026
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ELMI Power

Senior Software Developer – ELMI AI Platform

ELMI Power

Posted: 10/12/2026
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JUPUS

AI Lead

JUPUS

Posted: 10/12/2026
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SUXXEED Sales for your Success GmbH

Working Student – AI Engineering

SUXXEED Sales for your Success GmbH

Posted: 10/11/2026
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DATAGROUP

Senior Software Engineer – AI-Augmented Development

DATAGROUP

Posted: 10/10/2026
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Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland
Posted 10/21/2026full-timeLeipzig • GermanySeniorWebsite
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Demonstrates strong leadership in engineering team management, with a focus on hiring, performance evaluations, and career development. Possesses deep technical expertise across frontend, backend, and AI components, ensuring the delivery of scalable and maintainable software solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords
People Leadership ExperienceAI Development PracticesArchitecting Production-Grade SoftwareTechnical Direction OwnershipFull Professional Proficiency in English

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, grow and enable a team of forward-deployed engineers
  • Hire engineers and support performance evaluations, career development and coaching
  • Serve as the only and main engineering lead, with a career option to progress to CTO
  • Own Vicoland’s technical direction and technology decisions
  • Set architecture across the frontend-to-infrastructure stack
  • Ensure systems are scalable, robust and maintainable
  • Contribute features end-to-end by understanding business needs, coding and building prototypes, using AI to ship high-quality software
  • Translate business needs into technical roadmaps with Business Development, Product and other stakeholders
  • Prioritize scope and make trade-offs explicit
  • Ensure team members work end-to-end across concept and design, development, QA, deployment and production monitoring
  • Establish engineering standards and quality gates
  • Improve AI development practices including context engineering, model selection, evaluation, tracing and observability
  • Run architectural discussions, code reviews and retrospectives
  • Build a culture of ownership, constructive challenge and continuous learning
  • Advise the Chief Product Officer and business leadership on technology strategy, build-vs-buy decisions and team setup

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Proven people leadership experience leading an engineering team, ideally 3+ engineers, including hiring, performance evaluations, career development and coaching
  • Impactful technical contribution and continued enjoyment of writing code
  • Deep hands-on experience across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure/cloud
  • Track record of architecting and shipping production-grade software
  • Preferably experience with AI components including LLMs, embeddings, RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, PyTorch/TensorFlow
  • Strong product sense and experience owning a feature or product area end-to-end
  • Experience developing AI agents and integrating them into business workflows
  • Current knowledge of AI-assisted software engineering tools, models and trends
  • Excellent context engineering, including prompting; model selection; first-hand experience with Claude Code or Cursor
  • Ability to roll AI-assisted engineering practices out across a team
  • Ability to design evaluation sets, use LLM-as-judge or ground-truth data, and use tracing and observability tooling
  • Ability to balance autonomy and alignment and drive work from idea to finished product
  • Ability to challenge ideas and drive constructive discussions
  • Humble leadership style that creates psychological safety and supports honest feedback
  • Reside within ±3 hours of Central European Time
  • Full professional proficiency in English at C2 level
  • Full professional proficiency in German at C1 level
  • Bonus: experience scaling engineering teams in startups or scale-ups
  • Bonus: prior experience integrating AI into SaaS business workflows
  • Bonus: familiarity with AI tooling ecosystem including agents, memory systems, vector databases and orchestration frameworks
  • Bonus: experience with distributed or multi-location teams

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote-friendly + flexible work hours
  • Excellent compensation
  • Participation in the company through our ESOP
  • International, closely knit team of high-performers and entrepreneurial spirits
  • Growth mindset and opportunities to learn

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Hard Skills
Frontend DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentAI ComponentsArchitecting SoftwareCodingModel SelectionContext EngineeringEvaluation DesignProduction MonitoringCloud Infrastructure
Soft Skills
Humble LeadershipConstructive FeedbackPsychological SafetyAutonomy and AlignmentTeam Collaboration
Tools & Technologies
PyTorchTensorFlowAI-Assisted Engineering ToolsTracing ToolingObservability Tooling
Industry Keywords
SaaS WorkflowsEngineering StandardsContinuous LearningScalable SystemsDistributed Teams