Optimus sea
AI

Senior AI Engineer / Consultant - (agentic AI) - 90% Home-office

Optimus sea · Heidelberg, BW, DE

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

Optimus sea

Do you bring deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and a desire to help organisations fundamentally rethink the Software Development Lifecycle.

In this role, you’ll help enterprises harness AI and agentic coding tools to move beyond incremental improvements, reshaping how software is designed, built, tested, and operated to achieve greater speed, quality, and innovation at scale.

If this aligns with your goals and career aspirations, please apply and we can discuss the role further.

Tasks

  • Establishing AI-supported Software Development Lifecycles for clients – with modern agentic coding tools
  • Strategic consulting and empowerment of development teams in the use of AI technologies – as a technical thought leader and sparring partner with deep engineering understanding
  • Practical experience in the integration and application of AI technologies within cloud architectures is desirable – especially in Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon AWS.
  • Proof-of-value projects and showcases that make the benefits of AI in software engineering visible and measurable.
  • Coaching and enablement through pair/mob programming and practice-oriented learning formats to sustainably strengthen teams
  • Pre-sales support through technical demos, ROI argumentation, and C-level storytelling.
  • Ideally, experience in consulting on modern cloud engineering practices (CI/CD, GitOps, IaC with Terraform/Bicep, Observability)

Profile

  • Experience in using modern agentic coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) and an understanding of how AI transforms the development process.
  • Several years of experience in cloud-based software engineering and sound knowledge of modern development methods (clean code, automated tests, code reviews, continuous integration & delivery)
  • Strong consulting skills, empathy and communication skills in customer contact
  • Presentation and storytelling skills for demos and pre-sales scenarios
  • Passion for knowledge sharing, coaching and building communities

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