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Lead AI Engineer (m/w/d)

MAIA
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Leipzig, Germany
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

Lead AI Engineer to lead MAIA's engineering team in Leipzig, developing agent, RAG and workflow systems while working closely with the CTO.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Hybrid · Leipzig, Germany
Languages
German – fluent, English – fluent
Pay
EUR 90,000 – 100,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Take on demanding features and architecture topics in the agent, RAG and workflow systems and write plans others orient themselves by.
  • Make important design decisions together with the CTO, prioritize the technical roadmap and drive MAIA's technical vision.
  • Coordinate the team's work and act as sparring partner for all engineers in design discussions, reviews and feedback.
  • Conduct technical interviews and help decide who is hired.
  • Continuously improve how the team develops, especially in agentic work: from plans and reviews to evals and releases.
  • Follow new developments in LLMs, retrieval, agents and beyond, assess them soberly and bring what works into the product.

What we're looking for

  • Has built LLM systems and run them in production; practical experience with RAG, embeddings, vector search, tool calling and agents.
  • Has built, shipped and operated backend systems in production over longer periods.
  • Very good in at least one of TypeScript, Python or Go, ideally a statically typed one.
  • Has led a team technically as tech lead, lead engineer or comparable role.
  • Knows how to test and evaluate systems that do not always answer the same question the same way.
  • Coding agents are part of everyday work, with a clear opinion on how a team stays fast with them without losing quality.
  • Tenant separation, access rights and secure development are a matter of course.
  • Speaks very confident German and equally English.

Your team

Engineering-Team

Engineering team in Leipzig that critically questions how it develops and continuously improves its processes, especially in agentic development.

Benefits

  • Access to current frontier models and coding agents.
  • Support for further training, including leadership topics.
  • Access to a Wellpass membership.
  • Virtual participation via the company's VSOP.
  • Office centrally between the city center and the zoo, with cooking together almost every day.
  • At least three days per week on site, otherwise work where you like; you set when your day begins.

How to get hired

  1. 1No cover letter needed; send your CV and answer in a few sentences why you want to help shape MAIA.
  2. 2A 30-minute get-to-know-you.
  3. 3A 90-minute interview on technology and leadership.
  4. 4A final conversation with the management.
  5. 5Usually feedback within two working days after each step; goal is a decision in around three weeks.

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About MAIA

An AI platform for companies.

With MAIA, teams search their internal data and anchor agents deeply in their processes; MAIA has been developed in Leipzig since 2021.

Mission

Help companies use AI not just in individual departments but across the whole company.

Key facts

  • 2021
  • Leipzig
  • Builds a GenAI application with its own agent systems, RAG pipelines and agent-based workflows.
  • Uses the best available models, operated in the EU.
  • Numerous industrial companies have worked intensively with MAIA for years.
  • After a successful financing round in 2026, MAIA is now being brought to a broader market.
  • MAIA has been developed in Leipzig since 2021.

What they value

  • A shared goal of building a really good product.
  • Everyone takes responsibility for their own topic.
  • Short paths and fast decisions.
  • The engineering team critically questions how it develops and continuously improves its processes.