Lead AI Engineer – Financial Services (m/f/d) - Wiesbaden
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About the role
Salary: 60.000 - 80.000 € per year Requirements: • We have at least 3 years of working experience in software development, data science, or AI engineering. • We have advanced skills in LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, and model fine-tuning. • We have a proven track record of building scalable AI pipelines and LLMOps/MLOps infrastructure. • We are proficient in Python, vector databases, and cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, ideally with experience in .NET or TypeScript. • We have a background in technical mentoring, team leadership, and strategic architecture. • We are fluent in both German and English. Responsibilities: • We manage and coach a new 6-person group-wide AI development team. • We design, build, and scale production-ready LLM, RAG, and agentic systems. • We develop AI Insurance Advisors, policy analysis tools, and automated document processors. • We select tools and manage scalable enterprise AI infrastructure across cloud or on-prem. • We connect modular AI pipelines into existing corporate .NET stacks and APIs. • We partner with IT, business units, and the board from ideation to production. Technologies: • AI • AWS • Azure • Cloud • GCP • LLM • Python • TypeScript • ASP.NET More: We are an innovative financial services platform built by and for finance enthusiasts, focusing on smart technologies, data-driven solutions, and deep insurance and investment expertise to help our partners get the most out of consulting services. We are establishing a new in-house AI team to deliver on our group-wide AI vision, and this role will play a key part in shaping our technical direction and building solutions with real impact. We offer the opportunity to build a central AI team for a successful FinTech company, own a group-wide AI platform with direct reporting lines and high executive exposure, and enjoy full autonomy over architecture, infrastructure, and tool selection. We also provide a hybrid working model with remote flexibility and a modern office in Wiesbaden/Mainz, rapid decision-making, high individual responsibility, an attractive compensation package, certified training, and employee benefits. last updated 20 week of 2026
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