Job description
Lead AI Engineer / Senior AI Engineer
Company Overview
AI.IMPACT is a boutique consultancy that truly understands AI, both technically and organizationally. We help companies implement Artificial Intelligence in a way that is effective, compliant, and scalable. Our team combines expertise in software engineering, data strategy, and organizational transformation to turn ideas into impact.
Job Summary
We're looking for a Senior / Lead AI Engineer with deep generative AI expertise and solid software engineering foundations to help design and build intelligent, multi-agent capabilities for enterprise applications across our client base. Our team runs in startup mode with high autonomy, and a real opportunity to influence how advanced AI gets built and scaled in practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Conceive and implement AI solutions across both customer-facing product features and internal back-office workflows.
- Design and build LLM-based applications and RAG pipelines, bringing together vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search to produce reliable, context-aware results at scale.
- Create AI-driven agents and automations that simplify and accelerate customer workflows across CRMs, ERPs, ticketing platforms, and other core business systems.
- Embed AI capabilities into existing cloud-native architectures, APIs, and data ecosystems, with a focus on security, resilience, and scalability in production environments.
- Work hand-in-hand with product, engineering, and leadership teams on the client side to translate technical AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes.
- Guide clients in shaping and executing their data, AI, and generative AI strategies, from initial architecture decisions through to live deployment.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 4+ years in software engineering, AI, or solutions roles, with hands-on experience shipping production AI/LLM systems.
- Practical expertise across LLMs, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Experience with agentic systems, multi-agent orchestration, and complex workflow automation.
- Experience with vector search technologies and semantic retrieval.
- Python proficiency, plus at least one of JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or Kotlin.
- Familiarity with AI platforms and developer tooling such as OpenAI, Azure AI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, or Weaviate.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS) and delivery practices including Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid background in SaaS and enterprise software engineering settings.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in German and English.
- Must be based in Hamburg and able to work in person.
Location
Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Collaborative, appreciative, and inspiring team environment.
- Attractive compensation package, including participation in the company’s success.
- High degree of ownership and entrepreneurial freedom.
