Principal AI Engineer (mfx) Focus Software Engineering

About us

The appliedAI Initiative elevates Europes industry to become shapers in the age of AI creating a future that we desire to live in. Through our ecosystem of strong partners comprehensive programs services and solutions we advance companies holistically on their AI journey. With our uniquely diverse interdisciplinary and driven team we build on deep technical expertise while specializing on applicability of the solutions. We share a mindset of collaboration and openness with our ecosystem of leading companies and tech players. Our common goal is to strengthen the European landscape jointly creating unique knowledge for applying trustworthy AI. We believe that AI Agents will be the dominant topic for AI in the near future and that appliedAI with its partner ecosystem will impact how this technology is being used in industry and beyond in Europe.

Your mission

As a Principal AI Engineer in Professional Services you set the technical bar and lead the delivery of mission-critical AI solutions at enterprise scale. You define engineering standards de-risk complex programs and remain hands-on where it matters most. The focus is software engineering and heavy-duty enterprise solutions.

Your responsibilities will include :

• Own end-to-end technical strategy for complex engagements; ensure architectural coherence quality and operational excellence; delivery for critical AI programs making key decisions on frameworks tools and technical patterns to deliver high-quality production-ready software and systems
• Design review and harden services integrating ML / LLM components with strict SLOs security guardrails and observability. Proactively experiment with and integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies (such as agent frameworks RAG architectures and cloud-native solutions) to continuously improve performance and reliability
• Scale solutions from PoC to multi-tenant production deployments; drive cost latency and reliability optimizations
• Create and maintain reusable accelerators templates and reference implementations to speed up delivery across clients
• Partner with customers strategists and PMs in pre-sales and delivery (workshops solution options estimations and statements of work)
• Mentor and coach engineers; uplift engineering practices testing rigor CI / CD and documentation standards across teams
• Provide technical leadership for large customer engagements with measurable outcomes

Your profile

What we offer

Contact

Lucas Fernandes - Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

appliedAI Initiative GmbH August-Everding-Str.München

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Key Skills

Continuous Integration,Docker,Jenkins,Python,System Design,Agile,C / C++,Go,Systems Engineering,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1