Job description
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI for Automotive
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.
Job Summary
We shape the future of software development at BMW. With AI-powered tools and methods, we transform how software is created – with greater speed, higher quality, and better developer experience. We are building a new team at the intersection of AI and automotive software engineering to drive transformation across international engineering locations.
Key Responsibilities
- Pioneer the transformation toward an AI-native Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and continuously evaluate rapidly advancing AI capabilities.
- Design and build AI-driven engineering toolchains and workflows, agentic systems, and context engineering strategies.
- Build and operate AI-driven engineering environments and automated feedback loops to drive measurable improvements in developer productivity.
- Ensure system quality with evaluations, guardrails, and validation of software development artefacts and outputs.
- Enable and coach engineering teams to adopt AI-native workflows, collaborating across multiple divisions and international locations.
- Drive knowledge exchange across the developer community, for example through hackathons, workshops, and training sessions.
- Contribute to our transformation initiative, roadmap planning, cross-team alignment, and data-driven insights that guide scaling decisions.
Requirements / Qualifications
- University degree in computer science, mathematics, software engineering, or a comparable field.
- At least five years of professional software engineering experience developing high-quality production software, ideally from concept to production (Rust, Java, Kotlin, or C++).
- Deep experience with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools, with knowledge in context engineering, agentic workflows, MCP, A2A, and agent skills.
- Hands-on experience in designing, building, and operating agentic systems (e.g., LangGraph), including evaluation and quality assurance.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation of toolchains, and containerised development environments.
- Proficiency in collaborating across multiple teams and international locations, driving adoption of new tools and workflows, and scaling across a large engineering organisation.
- Experience with data-driven decision making, defining metrics, running experiments, and turning measurements into actionable insights.
Location
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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.
Application Process
Please apply exclusively online via our career portal. Applications through other channels (especially email) cannot be considered.
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.
