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Lead AI Engineer (m/w/d) – Remote

MAIA
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Germany
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Lead the engineering team as a hands-on Lead AI Engineer, building agent, RAG and workflow systems while working closely with the CTO.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · Germany
Languages
German – fluent, English – fluent
Pay
EUR 90,000 – 100,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Take on demanding features and architecture topics in the agent, RAG and workflow systems and write plans others follow.
  • Make key design decisions and prioritize the technical roadmap together with the CTO.
  • Coordinate the team's work and act as sparring partner in design discussions, reviews and feedback.
  • Conduct technical interviews and help decide who is hired.
  • Continuously improve how the team develops, especially agentic working from plans and reviews to evals and releases.
  • Track new developments in LLMs, retrieval and agents, assess them soberly and bring what works into the product.

What we're looking for

  • Has built and operated LLM systems in production, with practical experience in RAG, embeddings, vector search, tool calling and agents.
  • Has built, shipped and operated backend systems in production over longer periods.
  • Very good in at least one of TypeScript, Python or Go, ideally a statically typed one.
  • Has led a team technically as tech lead, lead engineer or comparable role.
  • Knows how to test and evaluate systems that do not always answer the same question the same way.
  • Uses coding agents daily and has a clear view on how a team stays fast with them without losing quality.
  • Leads effectively remotely, communicates proactively and makes decisions traceable in writing.
  • Thinks about security: tenant separation, access rights and secure development.
  • Speaks very confident German and equally English.

Your team

Engineering

Engineering team that critically questions how it develops and continuously improves its processes, especially in agentic development.

Benefits

  • Access to current frontier models and coding agents.
  • Support for further training, including leadership topics.
  • Access to a Wellpass membership.
  • Virtual participation via the company's VSOP.
  • You decide yourself when your day begins.
  • Twice a year team events and occasional team days in Leipzig.

How to get hired

  1. 1No cover letter needed; send your CV and answer in your own words why you want to help shape MAIA.
  2. 2A 30-minute introductory call.
  3. 3A 90-minute interview on technology and leadership.
  4. 4A final conversation with the management.
  5. 5Feedback usually within two working days after each step, with a decision in around three weeks.

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About MAIA

An AI platform for companies that lets teams search their internal data and anchor agents deeply in their processes.

Builds a GenAI application with its own agent systems, RAG pipelines and agent-based workflows, connecting customers' external systems and analyzing their data, using the best available models operated in the EU.

Mission

Help companies use AI not just in individual departments but across the whole company.

Key facts

  • 2021
  • Leipzig
  • Numerous industrial companies have worked intensively with MAIA for years.
  • After a successful financing round in 2026, MAIA is now being brought to a broader market.
  • MAIA has been developed in Leipzig since 2021.
  • A large part of the team works together in the Leipzig office, centrally between the city center and the zoo.

What they value

  • A shared goal of building a really good product.
  • Everyone takes responsibility for their own topic.
  • Short paths and fast decisions.
  • The engineering team critically questions how it develops and continuously improves its processes.