Head of AI Engineering (F/M/*)

From Europe, for Europe – We are building Europe's business AI.

We are amber, a growing and innovative AI startup. SMEs benefit when internal knowledge becomes immediately usable and intelligent agents can react to it. We believe in a future where business AI, including agents, works together on a shared platform, allowing teams to work faster, handovers to be seamless, and expertise to remain within the company.

As Head of AI Engineering (F/M/*) at amber, you will be responsible for the technical development of our AI platform – from Enterprise Search and RAG pipelines to agent-based workflows. You will lead our AI Engineering team, implement the technological roadmap together with Product and Management, and ensure that our solutions are secure, scalable, and production-ready for over 400 companies.

If you are eager to significantly shape the technological future of an innovative SaaS product, then get in touch with us now!

Your Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the technical vision and architecture of our AI platform – from in-house trained small language models to vectorization, RAG pipelines, and agent-based workflows.

• You will lead the AI Engineering team technically and disciplinarily, develop it, and strategically expand it according to our growth goals.

• You will translate product requirements together with Product and Management into a clear technical roadmap and consistently prioritize based on customer value.

• You will ensure that our systems run scalably, performantly, and reliably – from model selection and evaluation to monitoring in production.

• You will establish best practices for ML/LLM Ops, code quality, testing, and deployment, and continuously develop our engineering processes.

• You will be responsible for security and compliance requirements in engineering – GDPR compliance, ISO 27001, and authorization awareness are not side issues for us, but core to the product.

• You will monitor current developments in LLMs, retrieval, and agents, evaluate new technologies, and decide what makes its way into our platform.

• You will be a sparring partner for your team: You will foster technical excellence, provide feedback, and create an environment where engineers can grow.

Your Qualifications

• You have several years of experience in developing and operating machine learning or AI systems in production, ideally in a SaaS or B2B environment.

• You have already led or built an engineering team and know how to motivate, develop, and clearly set priorities for technical teams.

• You possess a deep understanding of modern AI technologies – LLMs, RAG, vector databases, embeddings, and ideally agent-based architectures.

• You are strong in software architecture and backend development, proficient in Python, and familiar with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and MLOps practices.

• You think strategically and simultaneously get hands-on operationally – a hands-on mentality is a given for you.

• You make technical decisions based on data, pragmatically, and with a view to maintainability and scalability.

• You have an awareness of data protection and security and ideally experience with compliance requirements in the enterprise environment.

• You communicate clearly and reliably in German and English and interact confidently with various stakeholders – from engineers to management.

Your Benefits

• Team Offsites – As you will be working in an international team, we all meet twice a year somewhere in Europe.

• You have the choice: Either a subsidized Deutschlandticket or an Urban Sports Club membership.

• We live a hybrid work model: We believe it is important to collaborate in person regularly. Therefore, we meet three times a week at one of our locations.

• So that you are well taken care of on-site, we provide digital, tax-free meal vouchers directly to your phone every workday on-site.

• Start in a company that lets you grow and gives you the opportunity to expand your skills step by step.

• We promote your personal development through further training and space for personal responsibility.

• A team of motivated people who are enthusiastic about making AI solutions accessible to medium-sized companies.

• Work with the latest technologies and tools.

A few words in closing

Sounds exciting? Then help us now and simply send us your CV or LinkedIn profile. We look forward to hearing from you!

Please note: We only consider applicants residing in Germany for this position.

Let's go big together 🚀

Compensation: €70K – €120K • Offers Equity

• • €70K – €120K • Offers Equity

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