Pactos is an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building the operating system for the external workforce industry. This market is huge – but dominated by manual processes, fragmented data, and high compliance risk.
Our mission is to rebuild the entire system AI-first : from automated checks and document intelligence to smart matching and workflow automation.
We’re looking for a Founding AI Engineer / AI Solution Architect who wants to design, build, and ship AI systems that are deeply embedded into a real product used by enterprises every day.
This role is about being our AI ambassador and turning AI into leverage for customers and the business .
Aufgaben
- 🧠 Design AI-first product capabilities – Identify where AI meaningfully improves workflows (e.g. document processing, compliance checks, classification, scoring, matching, anomaly detection).
- ⚙️ Build production-grade AI systems – Develop, integrate, and maintain AI pipelines that are reliable, observable, and scalable – not just prototypes.
- 📄 Document & data intelligence – Work on OCR, NLP, embeddings, classification, extraction, and validation of complex, real-world documents.
- 🚀 Ship fast, iterate faster – Move quickly from idea → prototype → production. Measure impact and continuously improve.
- 🧩 Collaborate deeply with product & engineering – Translate real customer problems into AI-powered solutions. You think in systems, not isolated models.
- 🏗 Lay the AI foundation – Define tooling, architecture, evaluation methods, and best practices that will scale with the company.
Qualifikation
2+ years experience building applied AI / ML systems in production (startup or scale-up experience strongly preferred)Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Physics, or a related quantitative field from a renowned university and outstanding performanceExperience working with LLMs , embeddings, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agent-based systemsSolid understanding of data pipelines , model evaluation, and monitoring, as well as recognizable skills in PythonAbility to make pragmatic trade-offs between accuracy, latency, cost, and complexityStrong product intuition – you care about outcomes, not just modelsEntrepreneurial mindset : ownership, speed, and willingness to go the extra mileFluent in German and EnglishBenefits
Attractive comp + ESOP : Competitive salary plus meaningful equityTrue Ownership : You’ll be among the first, well-experienced developers. Everything is yours to shape. Define our product from day one.Speed : We make decisions in hours, not weeks. No politics. No BS.Colleagues you’ll want to work with : Pragmatic, product-obsessed, and committed to winning - we're a tight-knit, ambitious team with a builder mindsetModern stack, flexible setup : centrally located in Munich, outcome-driven, and lots of fun (e.g., Oktoberfest)No long application process. Just send us your CV.
Pactos is a venture-backed B2B SaaS start-up based in Munich. We’re revolutionizing the external workforce management with an AI-powered operating system. Used by leading corporates, Pactos help streamline the source-to-pay process with staffing providers in a compliant, scalable, and transparent way. Thus, our customers excel in operation efficiency and re-gain full workforce visibility.