Senior ai engineer

Senior AI Engineer | AI-First Technology Company | Agentic AI, LLMs & AI Platforms | Issum, NRW (Hybrid)

AI Futures have been retained to identify a Lead AI Engineer for an ambitious AI-first technology company based in Issum, NRW.

Unlike businesses that simply consume AI technologies, this company develops and operates its own AI ecosystem, including proprietary AI models, AI platforms, training infrastructure, cloud environments and data centre capabilities. They are building next-generation AI solutions, digital employees and agentic systems that are already being deployed into real-world environments.

This is an opportunity to join a highly entrepreneurial team where engineers are given genuine ownership, autonomy and influence over both technical direction and product development.

Location: Issum, NRW (Hybrid)

Salary: Flexible depending on experience and impact

The Role

• Design, build and deploy production-grade AI applications and platforms.
• Develop agentic AI systems and autonomous workflows.
• Work with LLMs, RAG architectures and multi-agent frameworks.
• Help shape the future technical direction of the company's AI ecosystem.
• Collaborate closely with founders, technical leadership and product stakeholders.
• Contribute across architecture, infrastructure and application development.
• Build scalable AI solutions from concept through to production deployment.
• Operate within a fast-moving environment where ownership and initiative are highly valued.

The Candidate

• Experience building production AI solutions.
• Strong background in AI Engineering, Applied AI, Machine Learning Engineering or AI Architecture.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI and modern AI frameworks.
• Exposure to RAG systems, AI agents, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar technologies.
• Strong software engineering foundations, ideally with Python.
• Experience deploying and scaling AI applications in cloud environments.
• Comfortable working in a startup, scale-up or entrepreneurial environment.
• Strong communicator who can operate with a high degree of autonomy.

Desirable Experience

• Multi-agent systems.
• AI platform development.
• MLOps and AI infrastructure.
• Model deployment and optimisation.
• Vector databases and retrieval systems.
• Azure, AWS or GCP environments.
• Experience building products from zero to production.

Why Join?

• AI-first business with significant growth ambitions.
• Direct access to founders and technical leadership.
• Opportunity to influence architecture and product strategy.
• Broad technical scope across models, infrastructure, platforms and applications.
• Highly entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation and ownership.
• Flexible environment where exceptional people are given room to make a genuine impact.

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