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Head of AI Engineering (F/M/*)

Köln💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical development of a European Business AI platform featuring Enterprise Search, RAG pipelines, and agent-based workflows for SMBs.

Role type

Senior IC/Lead AI Engineering Manager

Builds

Production-ready AI platform with semantic search, retrieval pipelines, and LLM integrations

Domain

Enterprise SaaS, Business AI, LLMs, RAG

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Machine Learning system development, team leadership, LLMs, RAG, Vectors, Python, Software Architecture, MLOps, Security/Compliance

Preferred skills

Agent-based architectures, Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, Enterprise compliance experience

Technologies

Python, LLMs, RAG, Vectors, Embeddings

Responsibilities

Define technical vision and architecture for the AI platform, lead and scale the AI Engineering team, translate product requirements into technical roadmaps, ensure system scalability and reliability, establish ML/LLM-Ops best practices, oversee security and compliance (GDPR, ISO 27001), evaluate emerging AI technologies

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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