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Aleph Alpha Researchs mission is to deliver categorydefining AI innovation that enables open accessible and trustworthy deployment of GenAI in industrial applications. Our organization develops foundational models and nextgeneration methods that make it easy and affordable for Aleph Alphas customers to increase productivity in finance administration R&D logistics and manufacturing processes.

We are hiring to grow our org with offices in Heidelberg Germany and are looking for wellrounded experienced AI Software Engineers with experience in DevOps / MLOps.

As an AI Software Engineer in Aleph Alpha Research you help the research teams take model and algorithm development to the next level. You own significant portions of the research infrastructure including the pipelines related to data processing our testing infrastructure and engineeringheavy parts of our distributed training software. You also contribute your software engineering experience to research projects that have a significant influence on our ability to deliver novel categorydefining AI capabilities.

As part of our Infrastructure and Platform Engineering Team you maintain and develop cluster infrastructure manage cloud infrastructure build and manage DevOps and MLOps pipelines implement SE best practices (CI / CD monitoring testing frameworks) and collaborate and codevelop with our Data Center Infrastructure Team as well as Product Teams on shared platform components or projects.

In our Data Engineering and Distributed Training Team you engineer and optimize data processing pipelines develop and maintain components of distributed training software and build and maintain infrastructure and support for dataheavy tasks.

As part of our Research SE Teams you work alongside Researchers and other SW Engineers on model and algorithm development collaborate on ablation studies Proof of Concepts (POCs) and model optimizations. You create robust maintainable codebases that support efficient transition of new technologies and R&D artifacts from research to production and coown efforts that aim to make parts of our code source available to the broader research community.

Your responsibilities

Depending on your profile you will contribute to one or more of the following areas :

Design and (continuous) development of the research infrastructure establish mechanisms that improve code quality testing and feature delivery

Support the development training and maintenance of deep learning models in collaboration with the researchers as well as the SW / HW engineers at our distributed computation centers

Developing and optimizing lowerlevel code for data processing tokenization or research projects

Contributing your softwareengineering expertise to research projects (this could be for example in areas such as agent interfaces or data generation)

Help production AI research innovations into realworld applications

Engaging in our hiring process and otherwise mentoring engineers and researchers in terms of software development best practices

Most of our training code is written in Python with PyTorch being our main deep learning framework. Some of our lowerlevel code is written in Rust .

Your profile

Basic Qualifications

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience with demonstrated ability to solve complex and novel problems independently using stateoftheart scientific approaches.

2 years of experience in the design or architecture (e.g. design patterns reliability scaling) of new and existing systems contributing critical path code to impactful projects.

Proficiency in programming with at least one major software programming language and the ability to independently implement complex changes to foundational systems or algorithms.

Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical solutions and anticipate scientific or engineering limitations to diverse audiences.

Bachelors degree in computer science engineering or a closely related field.

Ready to relocate to Heidelberg Germany or otherwise come to our Heidelberg office regularly potentially weekly.

Preferred Qualifications

5 years of experience across the full software development lifecycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operational excellence.

Demonstrated skills in integrating complex systems with crossteam collaboration to enhance solution consistency and overall impact.

Proven experience designing and delivering highperformance scalable systems into production environments with contributions to research outputs or toptier publications being a plus.

Familiarity with systems programming and lowlevel languages such as Rust with a focus on performance and reliability.

Masters degree in computer science or related fields is preferred.

We do not necessarily require prior experience in machine learning for this role but we do value your eagerness to learn. If you have prior experience in ML we will be particularly excited about :

Experience productizing AI research innovations into realworld applications especially in areas such as largescale data processing and distributed computation for foundational model training or inference.

Familiarity with popular NLP tools and frameworks such as PyTorch or HF Transformers with knowledge of transformer architectures.

Ability to write clear proposals or publications and demonstrated excellence in explaining research contributions to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Proven ability to apply advanced scientific methods to novel problems resulting in impactful outputs such as publications or projects.

Our tenets

We believe embodying these values would make you a great fit in our team :

We own work endtoend from idea to production : You take responsibility for every stage of the process ensuring that our work is complete scalable and of the highest quality.

We ship what matters : Your focus is on solving real problems for our customers and the research community. You prioritize delivering impactful solutions that bring value and make a difference.

We work transparently : You collaborate and share your results openly with the team partners customers and the broader community through publishing and sharing results and insight including blogposts papers checkpoints and more.

We innovate through leveraging our intrinsic motivations and talents : We strive for technical depth and to balance ideas and interests of our team with our missionbackwards approach and leverage the interdisciplinary diverse perspectives in our teamwork.

What you can expect from us

Become part of an AI revolution!

30 days of paid vacation

Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub

Mental health support through nilo.health

Substantially subsidized company pension plan for your future security

Subsidized Germanywide transportation ticket

Budget for additional technical equipment

Flexible working hours for better worklife balance and hybrid working model

Virtual Stock Option Plan

JobRad Bike Lease

Key Skills

Laboratory Experience,Vendor Management,Design Controls,C / C++,FDA Regulations,Intellectual Property Law,ISO 13485,Research Experience,SolidWorks,Research & Development,Internet Of Things,Product Development

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1