Your tasks

As an AI Engineer at Teufel, you build the technical foundation that enables AI to work reliably across our business. You operate between core IT and AI‑driven use cases, evaluating modern models and platforms, designing integrations, and connecting them to our data and systems in a secure and scalable way while making sure AI at Teufel is technically sound, efficient, and fit for production.

AI Technology Evaluation

Continuously assess state-of-the-art AI models, platforms and solutions (e.g. frontier foundation models, open-weight models, multimodal systems).
Understand current AI technology (training, inference, tokenization, embeddings, context windows, fine-tuning, adapters).
Evaluate strengths, limitations, trade-offs, and risks of different AI approaches for Teufel use cases.

Bridging IT & Business Domains

Act as the technical translator and advisor between IT and business stakeholders using or requesting AI capabilities
Support PoCs and pilots with a clear path to production readiness.
Provide technical guidance and guardrails for AI usage in departments.

Data Integration

Define and implement best practices for AI integration.
Evaluate and integrate AI related protocols and standards (e.g. MCP, UCP, etc.).
Collaborating closely with our Data Engineering team to make data available to selected AI tools (e.g. via RAG)
Ensure data quality, lineage, access control, and auditability.

AI Platform & Tooling Ownership

Design and maintain Teufel’s AI solution architecture including Platforms
Tools & Agents
Models
API gateways
Monitoring, logging, cost control

Work closely with IT Security and Compliance on governance, privacy, EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2 implications.

Your profile

Strong background in IT, Software engineering, Data engineering, or Cloud Architecture
Deep understanding of Modern AI / ML concepts (LLMs, transformers, diffusion, multimodal models)
Practical knowledge of vector databases, embedding strategies, search & retrieval systems, prompt orchestration frameworks
Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures
Python and/or similar programming languages
Ability to explain AI behavior and risks to non-AI experts-without oversimplifying
Professional communication skills in English, German skills are a plus

Our offer

A long-term employment contract with 30 days’ vacation per year and an additional 1 day off for birthdays and up to 2 days off for social commitment
Hybrid working on site and from home office with flexible working hours for a good work-life balance
Attractive benefits such as a subsidy for public transport tickets, a job bike, a variety of sports offers, mental health offers and of course a discount on our Teufel products
A modern workspace in an excellent location
A friendly team with a shared passion for first-class sound
The dynamism of a start-up combined with the many years of experience of a successful medium-sized company
In-house development engineered in Berlin

AI Engineer (m/w/d)