(Senior) AI Engineer (m/f/d) – Remote
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Job description
AI Engineer at MAIA, an AI platform company, developing the GenAI application further: agent systems, RAG pipelines, model integration and evaluation. The role owns features from concept to continuous improvement and requires living in Germany.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Germany
- Languages
- English – fluent, German
- Pay
- EUR 75,000 – 95,000 / year
What you'll do
- Sharpen rough concepts together with product management and own features from prototype to continuous improvement based on feedback and usage data
- Shape how people work with MAIA: asking questions, providing context and letting agents complete multi-step tasks, with traceable progress and verifiable results
- Connect external systems and make knowledge from many different file formats usable, so MAIA finds the right passages, delivers answers with sources and respects existing access rights
- Integrate new language models and compare quality, cost and speed; use evals to detect errors and systematically improve answers and agents
- Build isolated environments for running code and tools and improve response times and data processing so MAIA runs reliably even with large knowledge bases
What we're looking for
- Solid software engineering: built and shipped backend systems and operated them in production over a longer period; familiar with architecture, API design, data modelling and asynchronous processing; recognises weak architecture even when a coding agent wrote it
- Very strong in at least one of TypeScript, Python or Go, ideally one of the statically typed ones
- At home in the LLM ecosystem: built real applications with LLMs, professionally or in complex personal projects; knows RAG, embeddings, vector search and tool calling from practice, including where they fail; tries out new models and frameworks on own initiative and separates substance from hype
- Measure, don't guess: knows how to test and evaluate systems that don't always give the same answer to the same question; builds the simplest solution that solves the problem
- Product thinking: thinks about the person who needs to finish a quote under time pressure or clarify a technical question with MAIA; likes to get involved early in product management's concepts and contribute own ideas
- Agentic engineering: coding agents are part of daily work; writes plans that others review and that coding agents can build on, reviews results critically, knows where agents help and where they don't
- Security-minded: tenant isolation, access rights and secure development are second nature
- Remote-ready: communicates proactively, documents work so others can follow it, and moves things forward without constant coordination
- Clear communication: explains technical topics clearly, including to product management, customer success and sales; fluent in English
- You need to live in Germany for this role
Nice to have
- Production experience with LLM systems is a big plus
- German is a plus
Your team
Engineering team
Much of the team works together in the office in Leipzig; the engineering team critically questions how it develops and continuously improves its processes, especially in agentic development.
Benefits
- Access to the latest frontier models and coding agents
- Support for training that fits your professional development
- Access to a Wellpass membership
- Virtual share in the VSOP
- Twice a year team events in person, and from time to time team days in Leipzig
- When your day starts is up to you
How to get hired
- 1Send CV and answer in a few sentences: Why do you want to help shape MAIA? (no cover letter needed)
- 230-minute intro call
- 390-minute technical interview
- 4Final conversation with management
- 5Usually hear back within two business days after each step; goal is a decision in about three weeks
Apply
About MAIA
An AI platform for companies
MAIA is an AI platform for companies. With MAIA, teams search their internal data and embed agents deep into their processes. On a technical level, MAIA is a GenAI application with its own agent systems, RAG pipelines and agent-based workflows, connecting customers' external systems and analysing their data. MAIA uses the best available models, operated in the EU, and makes them reliable for demanding work with large, complex datasets. Many industrial companies have been using MAIA intensively for years. Following a successful 2026 funding round, MAIA is being taken to a broader market. MAIA has been developed in Leipzig since 2021.
Mission
We help companies use AI not just in individual departments, but across the entire organisation.
Key facts
- 2021
- Leipzig, Germany
- AI platform / software
- Developed in Leipzig since 2021
- Successful 2026 funding round
- Many industrial companies have used MAIA intensively for years
- Models operated in the EU
What they value
- Everyone takes ownership of their own area
- Paths are short and decisions are made quickly
- Critically question how we develop and continuously improve our processes