CareerPlan

Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure

MunichFull-time€60k–€120k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-09
On-siteVisa sponsorship offeredSecurity clearance required

Core

Design and own production architecture for orchestrated data and NLP pipelines, AI/ML integrations, CI/CD, observability, and cloud or on-premises deployment.

Role type

Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure

Builds

Production NLP systems, data pipelines, and AI/ML integrations for enterprise and public-sector use

Domain

NLP, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PostgreSQL, graph databases, vector stores, search engines, embeddings, vector search, language model integrations, React/Vue, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, data and model drift monitoring

Preferred skills

open-web or platform data acquisition, early-stage startups, German-language work

Responsibilities

Design and own production architecture for orchestrated data and NLP pipelines, Set the engineering roadmap while balancing delivery speed, quality, and security, Build the initial production system hands-on and validate infrastructure and security decisions, Hire and manage an engineering team, Work closely with founders and users to iterate on the product

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC leading team