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Senior AI Engineer - AI Lab (m/w/d)
Berlinsenior
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In Germany
- Berlin / Frankfurt
In Austria
- Vienna
We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design and build AI and GenAI solutions within our AI Lab. In this role, you’ll combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision to build AI-powered solutions that will help transform our clients’ business models and enable their growth.
Simon-Kucher is at the forefront of innovation in driving commercial excellence, revamping business models, developing solutions and methodologies for unlocking better growth of our clients. Within AI Lab, we are developing cutting-edge AI solutions to deliver sustained top-line impact for our clients.
Are you interested in working in a team of digital evangelists with a can-do attitude? Want to experience the dynamics of agile processes in open-minded teams? How about getting creative in a startup atmosphere with a steep development curve and flat hierarchies? And most importantly, do you want to make a difference? Then you've come to the right place.
What Makes Us Special
- Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel
- Innovate by transforming ideas into cutting-edge AI products, championing Generative AI through creative experimentation to push boundaries and deliver transformative solutions.
- Add to your experience with our projects that focus on growth, have a positive impact, and truly matter
- Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
- Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit
- Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning)
- Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback)
- Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
- Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
- Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
- See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party
How You Will Create An Impact
- Design and develop AI solutions for business-specific use cases.
- Develop RAG and/or fine-tune LLMs and data pipelines for internal and external data sources (e.g., pricing databases, market benchmarks, CRM exports).
- Optimize performance, latency, and cost of AI/GenAI solutions.
- Evaluate, select, and integrate third-party libraries and open-source frameworks. Set up databases and LLM frameworks .
- Balance two modes of engineering excellence: pushing the boundaries of what's possible with innovative AI-driven automation through rapid PoCs, and delivering the high-quality agentic solutions that our clients need
- Be a strong and reliable partner — own projects end-to-end with a high on-time delivery rate, from early prototype to production release
- Stay ahead of AI/GenAI developments and assess new models/tools for adoption.
- Hit the ground running: within your first 30 days, deliver a working prototype of an agentic solution
- Work closely with AI Lab team and Simon-Kucher consultants to translate customer and business needs into well-designed AI solutions — agentic AI is core to what we build, and you'll be at the center of it
- Be an active contributor to our engineering culture: share relevant articles, research, or learnings with the team regularly and promote a mindset of continuous improvement and personal accountability
About You
- You have 4+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years focused on AI and GenAI.
- A standout university degree in a relevant field, with fluency in business English.
- Proven experience in designing and building applications using GenAI models, including open-source and commercial LLMs (code and general-purpose).
- You have experience in deploying and integrating LLMs in business workflows
- Strong Python skills and experience with AI frameworks like Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, and LangGraph.
- Experience with vector databases, knowledge retrieval systems and Retrieval Augmented Generation.
- Experience with LLM high performance inference and models monitoring.
- Working experience with cloud platforms, e.g. Azure and AWS, and CI/CD.
- Familiarity with data privacy, model safety, and responsible AI practices.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
Have we sparked your interest? Simply click the 'Apply now' button to submit your application. Please note that, for data protection reasons, we cannot accept applications via email.
Would you like to learn more about us and our company culture? Click here to watch our Recruiting Video .
About Simon-Kucher
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in 30+ countries.
Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist. simon-kucher.com
We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.
Your Personal Contact
Charlotte Sever
recruitment.germany(at)simon-kucher.com
Better growth starts here. With you.
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