Job description
Senior Applied AI / ML Application Engineer (f/m/x)
Company Overview
With its four brands, BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial services. The BMW Group production network comprises over 30 production sites worldwide; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.
Job Summary
In this role, you will build, prototype, and deliver use cases that leverage edge device models. By understanding real user problems, model capabilities are translated into meaningful product experiences that make the voice assistant and in‑car intelligence truly useful. Together with the model engineering product team, you will be a key contributor to our product: the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant.
Key Responsibilities
- Integrate models that run on edge devices within the infotainment domain.
- Prototype & build new GenAI experiences, turning ideas into reality as refined features that will be launched to our customers.
- Collaborate with the model engineering team to respect latency, memory, and performance budgets in edge devices and in the cloud.
- Work closely with staff engineers to shape our model landscape and tooling infrastructure to deliver customer value.
- Build evaluation tools for real-world interaction quality, robustness, and failure modes.
- Partner with our UX teams to refine design, fallback flows, and safe error handling.
Requirements / Qualifications
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least five years of proven experience in application engineering with a track record of delivering for a large customer base.
- Strong engineering experience integrating GenAI & ML models to serve delightful use cases.
- Solid Python and Java/Kotlin experience.
- Ability to debug ambiguous GenAI failures and improve behavior through iteration.
- Hands-on with a bias for action.
- Comfortable working with constrained, offline, edge-device models and designing around their limitations.
Location
Munich, Germany. Remote: False
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Attractive, fair and performance-related remuneration.
- Annual special payments such as vacation pay, Christmas bonus, and profit sharing.
- Flexible working hours including 6 weeks annual leave and overtime compensation.
- Discounted BMW & MINI conditions.
- Wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At the BMW Group, we place great importance on equal treatment and equal opportunities. Our recruiting decisions are based on the personality, experience, and skills of the applicants.
