Tech Lead (m/f/d) - Applied AI and Infrastructure Tech Lead (m/f/d) - Applied AI and Infrastructure Are you responsible for architecture, security and product speed in an AI-focused environment and want to build an excellent engineering team? Then we are looking for you to join our team! Location mobile working / nationwide career level with professional experience Scope of employment Full-time Your tasks You will be responsible for the overall technical architecture from workflow orchestration, LLM gateway, retrieval augmented generation to app layer and will manage customer projects. Together with the team, you establish a tech radar and architecture decision records and make "build vs. buy" decisions with an exit plan - quickly and transparently. Model orchestration (routing / fallbacks), hybrid retrieval re-ranking, evals / golden sets and cost / latency tuning are your responsibility. You standardize observability (OpenTelemetry), error / performance monitoring, feature flags and CI / CD processes to improve the developer experience. You have a strong hands-on mentality and are explicitly involved in programming projects. Your talents You master our tech stack hands-on: Kubernetes, Java or TypeScript, PHP Laravel and Python. Ideally, you have about six years of experience in software engineering (SaaS/Cloud) including architectural responsibility, as well as several years of practical experience with LLMs/RAG. You have already demonstrated team leadership experience and demonstrable decision-making competence through tech evaluations with ADRs or Tech-Radar. In-depth knowledge of cloud and orchestration, Kubernetes, REST / GraphQL and event architecture round off your technical profile. You are familiar with security / privacy basics such as SSO / OIDC, RBAC / ABAC, Secrets / KMS, audit logging and GDPR understanding as well as PSD2 / SCA. Operational excellence through observability, evals / canarying and incident management is a matter of course for you. Very good communication skills (German or English) and leadership experience in small, high-performing teams round off your profile. Your benefits A small, interdisciplinary team with a lot of direct creative freedom in a future-oriented AI market An environment that encourages technological curiosity, personal responsibility and pragmatic work with short decision-making paths A highly exciting and challenging role with enormous growth potential in the field of applied AI Flexible working hours, 100% remote or hybrid working possible Very flat hierarchies in a start-up with a strong partner (heise group) Competitive remuneration with development potential and equipment as desired You work independently with a high impact: focus on impact instead of processes Lots of heise benefits, such as cheaper fitness memberships and much more Have we made you curious? Get to know us on Instagram and visit us on kununu, Xing or LinkedIn. Your contact person Luca Holzenkämpfer, Personnel Officer Phone: 0511 5352-5204 Please apply online: karriere.heise.de We look forward to receiving your application! We welcome everyone, regardless of gender, nationality or ethnic origin, religion or ideology, disability, age or sexual identity. Deep Content GmbH (Karl-Wiechert-Allee 10, 30625 Hanover) DEEP CONTENT by heise is a media company that produces high-quality tech journalism with its digital magazines (MIXED, THE DECODER, SPACE4GAMES) and offers consulting on generative AI in business, communication, PR and marketing on the agency side. We design long-term marketing strategies and implement them, for example in corporate influencing on LinkedIn. We are also developing an AI content workflow tool for teams with DC I/O.