Amber Tech
AI

Senior AI Engineer (F/M/*)

Amber Tech · Aachen, NW, DE · $77k - $99k

Actively hiring Posted about 1 month ago

From Europe, for Europe – we are building the leading business AI.

We are Cologne's fastest-growing AI start-up.

SMEs benefit when internal knowledge becomes immediately usable and intelligent agents can respond to it. We believe in a future where business AI – including agents within amber and other platforms – works on a shared context layer, enabling teams to work faster, handoffs to be seamless, and expertise to remain within the company.

Your Tasks

  • You integrate, fine-tune, and deploy multimodal models (vision & language) that directly improve product quality, speed, and scalability
  • You evaluate and benchmark frontier models on industry-specific datasets to ensure they perform where it matters for our users strategies
  • You Evaluate and benchmark frontier models on industry-specific datasets to ensure they perform where it matters for our users
  • You develop fast, lightweight AI systems that reduce latency in search and generation
  • You stay ahead of the curve by researching and applying techniques like retrieval-augmented generation and open-source SOTA
  • You collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and customer teams to turn business goals into smart, AI-powered features
  • You guide technical experimentation and champion innovation from small model tweaks to introducing entirely new architectures

Your Qualifiactions

  • You have deep expertise in Large Language Models and their real-world applications; from fine-tuning to evaluation and production deployment
  • You have at least five years of hands-on experience with deep learning (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX), including training, scaling, and debugging neural networks
  • You’ve built and tested your own model architectures, and supervised training on large-scale compute clusters or cloud infrastructure
  • You’re fluent in at least one compiled or strongly typed language (e.g. Java, C++, C#, Rust) and have a solid foundation in systems-level thinking
  • You can work confidently with GitOps practices, CI/CD workflows, and collaborative engineering environments
  • You have hands-on experience using AI in your everyday life inlcuding image generation, code generation classification, etc.
  • You are fluent in English and German
  • You have published papers at international conferences or journals about deep neural networks and their applications

Nice to have: You already had the chance of taking on the challenges of an AI-based B2B startup

Your Benefits

  • Team offsites – Since you will be working in an international team, we all meet twice a year somewhere in Europe
  • Attractive and performance-based remuneration with big fixed and additional variable. In addition, we reward outstanding employees with company shares, allowing them to participate directly in the company's success
  • Start at a company that lets you grow – whether you want to develop your skills in the field or learn new ones
  • We promote your personal development through further training and room for personal responsibility
  • We live a hybrid working model: we believe it is important to work together in person on a regular basis. That's why we meet three times a week at one of our locations
  • The choice is yours: either a subsidised Germany-wide Deutschlandticket or an Urban Sports Club membership are on us
  • A team of motivated people who are keen to make AI solutions accessible to medium-sized companies
  • Work with the latest technologies and tools

Want to make a difference? Then come on board. Just send us your CV or LinkedIn profile, it's easy via JOIN.

Please note: that we are only looking for candidates located in Germany for this role.

Let’s build something big together!

Compensation Range: €70K - €90K

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