Senior AI Engineer – Generative AI, RAG, agentic systems

JobtailorKarlsruhe

Stellenbeschreibung:

You develop technically sound AI solutions for chatbots, retrieval systems and agentic workflows, deploy them to production and continuously improve them.

You design and operate RAG architectures to answer regulatory questions based on internal and external knowledge sources, maintaining and optimizing them.

Designing retrieval strategies, data preparation, chunking, metadata models and re-ranking methods are also part of your responsibilities.

You build robust interfaces to data sources, knowledge stores and surrounding systems as well as prompt strategies, guardrails and agentic processes to ensure reliable and traceable responses.

You ensure answer quality, traceability, reproducibility and reliability of AI systems and establish appropriate operational, monitoring and observability concepts for productive AI applications.

You take on functional and technical co-responsibility for the stable, secure and auditable operation of productive AI applications.

You analyze and resolve quality issues, hallucinations, retrieval weaknesses or misbehaviour in agentic processes - taking regulatory, data protection and security-relevant requirements into account during development and operation.

Requirements

You have a degree in (business) computer science, mathematics, physics or a comparable qualification, plus many years of relevant professional experience in the AI field and experience leading interdisciplinary (sub-)projects.

You bring solid experience in developing LLM-based applications and have very good knowledge of RAG, agentic architectures and in evaluating GenAI systems.

You have several years of experience with relevant frameworks and technologies such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, APIs, service-oriented architectures and container-based deployments in the AI domain.

You have knowledge of LLMOps as well as logging, tracing, monitoring and observability and can systematically address risks such as hallucinations, prompt injection, data leakage or insufficient grounding.

You have business-fluent German skills (at least C1 level) and good English skills (B2 level).

You bring a high degree of personal responsibility, team spirit and an agile working style - you enjoy developing AI solutions in an interdisciplinary environment and sharing your knowledge with colleagues.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in developing and optimizing AI solutions, particularly in LLM-based applications and RAG architectures, while ensuring compliance with regulatory and security standards. Proficient in monitoring, observability, and addressing quality issues in AI systems.