Senior AI Engineer

Job title: Senior AI Engineer

About the Role We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer who combines strong engineering fundamentals with a pragmatic delivery mindset—turning ambitious ideas into stable, scalable AI systems. You’ll join WongDoody’s cross-unit AI, tech and experience team and help design and deliver production-ready AI services that power GenAI and LLM-enabled experiences.

What You'll Do

• Design and build production-ready AI services and backend systems
• Develop APIs, orchestrations, and integrations for GenAI and LLM-based applications
• Create technical foundations that enable teams to build, scale, and operate reliably
• Contribute to RFPs, pitches, and forward-looking AI solution concepts
• Ensure AI solutions run reliably, perform efficiently, and remain cost-effective
• Make architectural decisions around scalability, monitoring, security, and maintainability
• Optimize systems across quality, latency, operational cost, and developer experience
• Work closely with Creative Technologists, Product, Design, and Engineering
• Lead technical discussions and bring clarity to complex initiatives
• Support other engineers through reviews, sparring, and best practices
• Engage in client-facing conversations and explain technical concepts to senior stakeholders

What We're Looking For

• A passion for creative technology, curiosity for emerging AI tools, and the ability to turn ideas into working prototypes
• Analytical and structured mindset with the ability to make complexity simple
• End-to-end architecture from prototyping to production (including CI/CD, logging, analytics, and scaling)
• Several years of experience building production-grade AI or backend systems
• Strong experience in software engineering (Python and/or TypeScript)
• Practical knowledge of LLM frameworks, tools and protocols (LangChain, LangGraph, n8n, MCP, A2A, Bedrock, or similar) including agentic architectures
• Experience in integrating visual AI tools such as ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, Google Imagen, or Adobe Firefly into broader workflow systems
• Proven experience integrating text-based AI APIs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Llama into end-to-end workflow solutions
• Familiarity with prompting techniques, RAG pipelines, and AI workflow orchestration including guidance/guardrails, observability (P95, cost/request), evaluation pipelines
• Understanding of real-time communication protocols (WebSocket / gRPC / PubSub event handling) and API integration across data and creative environments
• Competence in infrastructure setup (Docker, Terraform, cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure), understanding the resources cost factor and ability to optimize it
• Open-source engagement or hands-on experimentation with AI agents, visual frameworks, or orchestration systems
• Excellent English communication skills (German is a plus)
• Work permit for Germany and at least one year of work onsite in Germany

Nice to Have

• Experience with IBM watsonx / Watson AI or related enterprise AI ecosystems

Compensation & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and 100% overtime compensation
• Work where it works for you. At home or in the office, or any mix you like
• Working for strong brands and clients we believe in
• 30 days vacation per year
• Urban Sports Club
• Nice people in welcoming teams