AI Engineering Manager
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Munich | Hybrid
Salary: €100k - €150k + 10-20% bonus
About the Role
My client is hiring for a Senior Staff AI Engineer to manage and guide architecture for their core testing platform. You will balance people management (8–10 engineers and scientists) with hands-on system design, scaling evaluation capabilities across LLMs, computer vision, and autonomous systems.
Key Responsibilities
People Management: Lead hiring, 1:1s, career development, and foster a high-trust engineering culture.
Technical Direction: Shape evaluation science, metrics, and system architecture across multiple AI domains.
Hands-On Leadership: Set engineering standards through strategic code reviews, ADRs, and targeted coding.
Cross-Functional Delivery: Partner with product and executive teams to translate roadmaps into execution plans.
Key Requirements
6+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership or engineering management.
Solid background in ML, data science, or statistics to guide applied R&D and evaluation metrics.
Proficiency in Python for backend services and data pipelines.
Proven track record of owning system architecture and scaling cross-functional teams.
Experience with AI testing, evaluation, governance, or data-quality tools (LLMs, RAG, or computer vision).
Preferred Skills
Familiarity with TypeScript, modern data pipelines (DuckDB, Parquet), Kubernetes, or GPU inference infrastructure.