Team Lead AI Engineering (f/m/d) - VESTIGAS GmbH

As Team Lead - AI Engineering, you'll own the AI infrastructure and capabilities that power our supply chain platform end to end - from pipeline design to production deployment. You bring prior leadership experience and are ready to lead a team of AI engineers: setting technical direction, growing your team's capabilities, and making sure the team consistently delivers reliable, scalable AI systems.

Activities

The Technical Challenge

Your team will tackle problems like extracting structured data reliably from many different documents, building uncertainty estimation so the system knows when to flag a document for human review instead of silently guessing, and automatically reconciling purchase orders, delivery notes, and invoices against each other - all within legal and compliance requirements that leave no room for "close enough." This is a domain where clean benchmark metrics mean far less than robustness against real documents nobody has seen before - and you'll set the technical direction for how the team navigates that trade-off, deciding where to push automation further and where human review still matters.

• Lead and long-term grow a team of AI engineers, providing both strategical technical direction and people leadership
• Own MLOps processes and infrastructure, ensuring our AI systems are reliable, scalable, and secure
• Drive the design and implementation of advanced AI features, partnering closely with engineering and product leadership to deploy machine learning models and data pipelines
• Set the bar for accuracy, efficiency, and uncertainty estimation of our AI features through rigorous testing practices
• Ensure the scalability, maintainability, and core functionality of our AI solutions - and drive the build of new ones from scratch
• Translate customer needs into technical priorities and represent AI engineering in strategic product and sales discussions
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, tooling, and quality practices across the team
• Coach and develop your team members, supporting their technical and professional growth
• Champion the use of modern AI tools such as Claude or Cursor across the team

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; alternatively, an equivalent education
• 5+ years of experience in AI engineering and at least 1+ years in a leading position, including end-to-end lifecycle management and MLOps
• Proven experience leading or managing a technical team, with strong people-leadership skills
• Hands-on expertise in natural language processing and image processing
• Strong Python skills and experience with Azure; Terraform experience is a plus
• A passion for generative AI, OCR, and building customer-focused solutions
• A habit of writing clean, well-tested code with an eye on what happens after deployment
• Solid understanding of AI agents, tools, and their limitations
• Fluent English and German (C1 or above)
• Willingness to work from our Munich office at least two days a week

Application Process

• Discovery Call
• Video-Interview
• Coding challenge
• Meet the Team

About the Company

Company History:
VESTIGAS was born out of the founders' deep-rooted experience in the construction sector, where they observed the low level of digitalization of supply chains in this industry for > 5 years. Building on this insight, the founders set up their own consultancy, which focused exclusively on the construction sector for five years. Based on their expertise, they initiated a scientific project within their alma mater at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in collaboration with seven industry partners. This project led to the development of a prototype for VESTIGAS - and we are still grateful for the incredibly feedback of the industry to it.

Vision and Ambitions:
What began as a concept to digitize delivery notes evolved into a grander vision: VESTIGAS envisioned transforming the entire construction supply chain into a digital, automated, and transparent ecosystem. The result was the creation of a groundbreaking Supply Chain Operating System for Construction , connecting all stakeholders within the construction supply chain. VESTIGAS developed an independent, open cloud platform, allowing seamless integration through APIs. This open system concept enables any application or frontend, whether developed by VESTIGAS or third parties, to interact with every part of the system.

Milestones and Achievements:
By 2024, VESTIGAS is processing thousands of deliveries daily with a Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) exceeding €30 million per month. The platform welcomed 10 of the top 20 construction companies and 14 of the top 20 suppliers in the DACH region already. We are supporting the biggest construction projects in Germany (e.g. like the 2nd Stammstrecke München) and as a result, our team has almost doubled in the last year.

We have raised a seven figure funding round and are the winner of awards such as the Bundesaward für Digitale Innovationen and the German Proptech Award.

Tech Stack
Our backend is mostly build on Python, a microservice architecture and Couchbase as our core database. In our WebApp we utilize React, while our mobile app is build on Flutter.

Team
VESTIGAS was founded by Julian & Paul (built a consultancy in the construction industry and before that, consulted for firms such as Audi, Microsoft and T-Systems), Nicolas (first employee at Applied AI of UnternehmerTUM and AI expert) and Yannick (IT-Security specialist and previously at Flixbus and Celonis). We are now 40 in the team and range from construction industry veterans over sales pros to our incredible techies, who build the backbone of what we do.
Working at VESTIGAS means joining a incredibly commited and experienced team. We offer a dynamic work environment with flat hierarchies and a culture that fosters innovation and creativity. Here, you have the chance to work on groundbreaking projects and actively shape the future of the construction industry.
Also, we are a group of people who simply like each other - and love to just hang out together as well!

Are you ready? Join VESTIGAS and help us digitalize and revolutionize the construction industry. Let's build the future together!