AI Engineer jobs in Germany

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Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland

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

Engineer, Software Architect, AI Practitioner

DAI Software GmbH i.G.

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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

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Posted: 10/15/2026
Neurawork

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Posted: 10/15/2026
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Mindrift

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Mindrift

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Mindrift

Posted: 10/14/2026
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Alpas AI

Senior AI Engineer

Alpas AI

Posted: 10/12/2026
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ELMI Power

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JUPUS

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

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Posted: 10/11/2026
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DATAGROUP

Senior Software Engineer – AI-Augmented Development

DATAGROUP

Posted: 10/10/2026
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brighter AI

Senior Cloud Software Engineer, AI

brighter AI

Posted: 10/9/2026
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TODAY

Senior Fullstack Engineer – AI, Backend, Infrastructure

TODAY

Posted: 10/8/2026
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NVIDIA

AI Developer Intern

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Posted: 10/8/2026
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Vicoland

Lead Product Engineer – AI

Vicoland
Posted 10/19/2026full-timeFrankfurt am Main • 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, data, and infrastructure, with a proven ability to architect and ship production-grade software while integrating AI components into business workflows.

Highest-signal resume keywords
People Leadership ExperienceArchitecting Production-Grade SoftwareAI Component IntegrationEnd-to-End Product OwnershipContext Engineering

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPyTorchTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, grow, and enable a team of forward-deployed engineers
  • Make every engineer successful and hire new team members
  • Serve as the 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 end-to-end features hands-on by understanding business needs, coding, and building prototypes
  • Use AI to ship high-quality software alongside the team
  • Translate business needs into technical roadmaps with Business Development, Product, and other stakeholders
  • Prioritize, scope, and make trade-offs explicit
  • Ensure team members work across concept and design, development, QA, deployment, and production monitoring
  • Establish engineering standards and quality gates
  • Improve AI-assisted 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, including leading an engineering team (ideally 3+ engineers), hiring, performance evaluations, career development, and coaching
  • Impactful technical contribution and continued interest in writing code
  • Deep hands-on experience across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure/cloud
  • Track record of architecting and shipping production-grade software
  • Experience with AI components such as LLMs, embeddings, RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, PyTorch, or TensorFlow preferred
  • Strong product sense and experience owning a feature or product area end-to-end
  • Experience developing AI agents and integrating them into business workflows
  • Knowledge of current AI tools, models, and trends in AI-assisted software engineering
  • Excellent context engineering, including prompting; knowledge of 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, work with LLM-as-judge or ground-truth data, and use tracing and observability tooling
  • Ability to balance autonomy and alignment and involve, align with, or escalate to others appropriately
  • Ability to challenge ideas thoughtfully and drive constructive discussions
  • Leadership style that creates psychological safety and supports honest feedback
  • Residence 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 building or scaling an engineering team in a startup or scale-up
  • Bonus: experience integrating AI into SaaS business workflows, ideally client-facing or forward-deployed
  • Bonus: familiarity with 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 the 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 DevelopmentCloud InfrastructureAI ComponentsModel SelectionSoftware ArchitectureCodingPrototypingAI-Assisted DevelopmentPerformance Evaluations
Soft Skills
Team LeadershipConstructive FeedbackPsychological SafetyCollaborationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
PyTorchTensorFlowClaude CodeCursorObservability ToolingRAG PipelinesAutonomous AgentsVector DatabasesOrchestration FrameworksAI Tools
Industry Keywords
AI-Assisted Software EngineeringSaaS Business WorkflowsEngineering StandardsContinuous LearningScalable Systems