AI Engineer (m/w/d)

nerdware

5d•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for experienced AI Engineers who can not only demonstrate AI but also make it productive – as part of complex business applications that must function in our customers' daily lives. You are a software developer with real engineering depth, ideally with full-stack experience, and you are comfortable in cloud environments like AWS and/or Azure. You consider LLMs, agents, and data-driven services from the outset – and know where they make sense from a business perspective and where they don't. A focus for us is on Agentic Engineering: systems that don't just respond, but act – with tool access, multi-stage processes, state management, error handling, and clearly defined boundaries. This is precisely where the prototype is separated from the solution that can be handed over to a customer with a clear conscience. And this is exactly where we need people who can do both: understand models and build robust software. What's important to us: This role remains hands-on. You build yourself, you deploy yourself, you debug yourself. At nerdware, the focus is not just on the code, but above all on the people behind it. The best technical solution emerges where team spirit, open communication, and mutual trust are lived. If you fit in with us on a personal level, you've already taken the most important step. We work in a field that is changing faster than any other in software development. That's why we are looking for people who take responsibility, remain curious, and can distinguish hype from substance. Initiative, technical foresight, and the joy of developing solutions together are just as important to us as respectful and appreciative interaction within the team.

Requirements

Several years of experience in modern software development, ideally in a full-stack environment – you are and remain a developer <3
Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI in real projects: prompting, RAG, embeddings/vector databases, function calling, fine-tuning, or agent frameworks.
Experience or serious interest in Agentic Engineering – you have already brought an agent beyond the demo stage or are eager to do so
Solid understanding of ML fundamentals and data processing – you know what a model can achieve and where its limits are
Cloud development with AWS and/or Azure, including CI/CD, containers, and Infrastructure as Code
Proficient in Clean Code, SOLID principles, and designing clean software architectures
Independent, responsible way of working with strong analytical and conceptual skills
The ability to develop pragmatic solutions for complex requirements – and to think outside the box
High motivation and passion for software development and for a technology field that reinvents itself monthly
Very good German language skills (C1) in speaking and writing, as well as good English language skills

Nice To Haves

Frameworks Angular .NET NestJS
Programming languages C# TypeScript Python
Infrastructure & Cloud Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and/or CDK
You don't have to bring everything – what's more important to us is your senior experience, your willingness to learn, and your ability to quickly familiarize yourself with new technologies and project environments.

Responsibilities

Conception, development, and further development of AI-supported software solutions – from the initial idea to stable production operation
Agentic Engineering: Design and implementation of agentic systems – tool and function calling, orchestration of multi-stage workflows, context and state management, retries and fallbacks, human-in-the-loop, and sensible guardrails
Design and implementation of LLM applications: RAG pipelines, structured extraction, evaluation, observability
Integration of ML models, foundation models, and data-driven services into existing or new systems – including the APIs, data flows, and surrounding infrastructure
Hands-on development of scalable, maintainable, and performant applications on modern technologies and cloud platforms (AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure OpenAI/AI Foundry or similar)
Identification of AI use cases in customer projects – and the honest assessment of when an agent is the right answer and when a deterministic solution is better
Agentic coding in your own daily work: productively and responsibly using AI tools in development, review, and delivery – and showing the team how it's done
Technological consulting for our customers on architecture, technology, and make-or-buy decisions
Ensuring code quality through clean code, tests, reviews, and best practices
Active co-creation of our growing AI competence field – setting topics, bringing knowledge to the team, establishing standards

Benefits

Tech, Ownership & Impact: Shape architecture: You make technical decisions, set engineering standards, and take responsibility for long-lasting system designs.
Makers Lab: Alongside customer projects, you develop internal tools and solutions that truly move us forward. If an idea is good, we implement it.
Share knowledge: Everyone contributes in show-how sessions and workshops – regardless of whether they are junior or senior. Targeted further training is also provided.
Real say: Flat hierarchies mean real decision-making freedom for us instead of micromanagement.
Your setup, your choice: Work with the setup that suits you – macOS or Windows? Your decision.
Flexible working hours: Whether an early bird or a night owl; you work when you are most productive.
Remote & Home-Office within Germany: You work where you are most productive.
Workation within the EU: Temporarily work from a different location? Naturally for us.
Lunch is on us: Through LunchIt, you receive a €7.50 subsidy for your lunch every working day.
Compensation: Your experience will be compensated above average – without you having to negotiate for a long time.
30 days of vacation: Enough time to truly switch off – and flexible planning to ensure that happens.
Team Culture & Gaming: From LAN parties to joint quarterly events – we experience real highlights even away from the code.
After Work with a cold drink of your choice – because strong teams are not only built in the daily stand-up.
Well taken care of throughout the day. :) A well-stocked fridge with snacks and a large selection of drinks is available at all times.