(Senior) Software Engineer – AI (m/f/d) – Remote
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Job description
Software Engineer role at MAIA, an AI platform company, to develop the GenAI application further, including chat and agent features, RAG pipelines, model integration and secure infrastructure. The role involves owning features from concept to continuous improvement.
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
- Together with product management, sharpen rough concepts 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
- Built and shipped backend systems and operated them in production over a longer period; familiar with architecture, API design, data modelling and asynchronous processing
- Very strong in at least one of TypeScript, Python or Go, ideally one of the statically typed ones
- Built real applications with LLMs, professionally or in complex personal projects; know RAG, embeddings, vector search and tool calling from practice, including where they fail
- Know how to test and evaluate systems that don't always give the same answer to the same question; build the simplest solution that solves the problem
- Product thinking: think about the person using MAIA and get involved early in product management's concepts
- Coding agents are part of daily work; write plans that others review and that coding agents can build on, review results critically, and know where agents help and where they don't
- Security-minded: tenant isolation, access rights and secure development
- Remote-ready: communicate proactively, document work so others can follow it, and move things forward without constant coordination
- Explain technical topics clearly, including to product management, customer success and sales; fluent in English
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 they develop and continuously improve 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 and occasional team days in Leipzig
- Flexible start to your day
How to get hired
- 130-minute intro call
- 290-minute technical interview
- 3Final conversation with management
- 4Usually hear back within two business days after each step; goal is a decision in about three weeks
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About MAIA
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. 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
- Successful 2026 funding round
- Taking MAIA to a broader market
- Many industrial companies have been using MAIA intensively for years
- Developed in Leipzig since 2021
What they value
- Building a really great product
- Everyone takes ownership of their own area
- Enjoy work and are proud of what customers achieve with MAIA
- Short paths and quick decisions
- Critically question how we develop and continuously improve processes