Senior AI Engineer | AI Center of Excellence (m/f/d)

Job description

Country: Germany

Your profile

You have completed a degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a comparable technical field and have several years of practical AI Engineering experience. You have several years of experience developing production-ready AI solutions and scalable end-to-end architectures, from conception through proof of concept and pilots to production operations. You have strong knowledge of modern AI technologies and architectures, especially Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, vector databases, and multimodal models. You have experience with different deployment models for AI solutions, from in-house development and open-source components to commercial platforms and SaaS, and understand their technical, regulatory, and economic trade-offs. You are skilled at analyzing complex technical requirements, developing robust solution architectures, and thoroughly assessing technology opportunities, risks, and architecture decisions. Strong cloud and software engineering knowledge—especially AWS, Python, API and service architectures, container technologies, CI/CD, and MLOps/LLMOps—rounds out your profile. You communicate confidently with business functions, IT, and architecture teams, take technical responsibility for initiatives, and actively drive adoption of new AI technologies and best practices.

What we offer

Long-term prospects: Secure role in a growing international company, with exciting development opportunities in specialist and management careers. Valuable support: Great team spirit, thorough onboarding, and diverse training opportunities. Tangible benefits: Flexible hours with occasional remote work; more than six weeks of annual leave (six weeks' vacation, two bank holidays, and half a day off for your birthday); option for up to 25 additional unpaid vacation days per year. Recognition: Annual special payment, occupational pension through salary conversion, special banking conditions, up to €40 in capital-forming benefits, and compensation placement according to the applicable criteria. Extras: Kindergarten, meal, Gympass, and transit-ticket subsidies; annual health voucher; corporate benefits. Fair environment: Part-time work possible; applicants with severe disabilities receive special consideration if equally qualified.

Contacts

For technical questions, contact Markus Drösser, +49 172 211 0332. For other questions, contact Anja Deußen, +49 (0) 2161 690-8327. We look forward to your application. www.santander-karriere.de

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