Senior AI Platform Engineer (f/m/x)

INNOVATION IS IMAGINING WHAT NO ONE ELSE CAN.

At the BMW Group, everything starts with passion. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives us to keep reinventing mobility and bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a team into a strong unit where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work unite that we can shape the future together.

As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the Data & AI transformation at the BMW Group by developing state‑of‑the‑art AI platform solutions to train, run, and continuously improve tailored AI models for our connected vehicles all around the world.

Responsibilities

• You build and operate AI platforms for data pipelines, training, deployment, and inference.
• You optimise for best‑in‑class AI models, employing suitable ML and LLM approaches.
• You take technical leadership and ownership, from architecture across teams to mentoring engineers towards operational excellence of AI‑based systems.
• You analyse stakeholder requirements and translate them into scalable AI platform features that enable hundreds of teams.
• You ensure reliability, performance, and cost‑efficient operation of AI‑based systems.
• You develop solutions for efficient interoperability and load distribution between in‑vehicle and cloud platforms.
• You create data and context management solutions to power personalised, customer‑centric AI experiences.

Qualifications

• A university degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a comparable qualification.
• At least five years of professional experience in (AI) platform engineering, AI training and inference, or AI tooling.
• A track record of successfully leading and implementing large and complex technical AI solutions in cloud or edge devices.
• Experience with AI solutions on the edge or enthusiasm to transfer your knowledge to the in‑vehicle domain.
• Hands‑on experience in machine learning or generative AI and proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, Node.js/Nest.js, Java/Kotlin, or Go, as well as API technologies.
• A deep understanding of cloud architectures (mainly AWS), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and (ML)Ops of scalable cloud services.
• Very good written and spoken English skills. Knowledge of German, both written and spoken, is an advantage.

Benefits

• Challenging projects through which we are shaping the mobility of tomorrow together.
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.
• Attractive, fair, and performance‑related remuneration.
• A high level of job security.
• Annual special payments such as holiday pay, Christmas bonus, and profit sharing.
• Flexible working hours including six weeks’ annual leave and overtime compensation.
• Discounted BMW & MINI conditions.
• Many other benefits at bmw.jobs/benefits

At the BMW Group, we place great importance on equal treatment and equal opportunities. Our recruitment decisions are based on the personality, experience, and skills of the applicants. Learn more here.