Senior AI Engineer – Generative AI, RAG, agentic systems

Atruvia AG

Developing AI solutions for chatbots and retrieval systems in a digital banking company. Collaborating in interdisciplinary teams with an agile approach.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeKarlsruhe • 🇩🇪 GermanySenior💰 €79,000 - €113,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing and optimizing AI solutions, particularly in LLM-based applications and RAG architectures, while ensuring compliance with regulatory and security standards. Proficient in monitoring, observability, and addressing quality issues in AI systems.

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LLM-Based Application DevelopmentRAG Architecture DesignLangChain FrameworkMonitoring and ObservabilityBusiness-Fluent German

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Hard Skills

AI Solution DevelopmentData PreparationChunkingMetadata ModelsRe-Ranking MethodsPrompt StrategiesAgentic ProcessesQuality AssuranceRisk ManagementAPIs

Soft Skills

Team SpiritAgile Working StylePersonal Responsibility

Tools & Technologies

LangGraphLlamaIndexService-Oriented ArchitecturesContainer-Based DeploymentsLLMOps

Industry Keywords

Regulatory ComplianceData ProtectionSecurity RequirementsInterdisciplinary CollaborationGenAI Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You develop technically sound AI solutions for chatbots, retrieval systems and agentic workflows, deploy them to production and continuously improve them.
You design and operate RAG architectures to answer regulatory questions based on internal and external knowledge sources, maintaining and optimizing them.
Designing retrieval strategies, data preparation, chunking, metadata models and re-ranking methods are also part of your responsibilities.
You build robust interfaces to data sources, knowledge stores and surrounding systems as well as prompt strategies, guardrails and agentic processes to ensure reliable and traceable responses.
You ensure answer quality, traceability, reproducibility and reliability of AI systems and establish appropriate operational, monitoring and observability concepts for productive AI applications.
You take on functional and technical co-responsibility for the stable, secure and auditable operation of productive AI applications.
You analyze and resolve quality issues, hallucinations, retrieval weaknesses or misbehaviour in agentic processes — taking regulatory, data protection and security-relevant requirements into account during development and operation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have a degree in (business) computer science, mathematics, physics or a comparable qualification, plus many years of relevant professional experience in the AI field and experience leading interdisciplinary (sub-)projects.
You bring solid experience in developing LLM-based applications and have very good knowledge of RAG, agentic architectures and in evaluating GenAI systems.
You have several years of experience with relevant frameworks and technologies such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, APIs, service-oriented architectures and container-based deployments in the AI domain.
You have knowledge of LLMOps as well as logging, tracing, monitoring and observability and can systematically address risks such as hallucinations, prompt injection, data leakage or insufficient grounding.
You have business-fluent German skills (at least C1 level) and good English skills (B2 level).
You bring a high degree of personal responsibility, team spirit and an agile working style — you enjoy developing AI solutions in an interdisciplinary environment and sharing your knowledge with colleagues.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working: We operate a balanced hybrid mix of remote work and presence in modern office environments (Activity Based Working).
Work–life balance: With our individual working time models such as part-time, the option to choose full-time between 30–40 hours and our lifetime working account (sabbatical and/or leave before retirement), you will find the right balance.
Balancing private life and career: We offer a family budget and support in special family situations, e.g. caregiving for relatives.
Individual benefits: In addition to a company pension scheme (subsidized BAV), you can choose between bike leasing, IT hardware leasing, capital-forming benefits and/or an extra day off, plus other options.
Onboarding: Guided and individual onboarding with a mentor and regular feedback talks with your People Lead support your settling-in. We also welcome you at our welcome event #enter.
Health management – Health, Family and Life: Through our offerings we support you, e.g. via cooperations with Familiengenossenschaft and voiio. Enjoy varied meals in our company restaurants and connect through our sports offerings.
Career model and development: In our development dialogues you discuss your technical, methodological and personal career goals and pursue them via our diverse training opportunities.
Our corporate values: Respectful, open and honest, self-responsible, supportive and results-oriented — guided by team spirit, customer focus and a desire for innovation and intensive knowledge exchange.
Future and job security: As a cooperative company with decades of experience, we are pioneers in the digital transformation of the banking world and a systemically important employer.
Kununu: We are a Top Company 2026 and proud of a Kununu score of 4.3 and a recommendation rate of ≥ 90%.