Berlin (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
€120,000 base bonus
We’re hiring an Applied AI Engineer to join a fast-growing AI consultancy in Berlin that focuses on shipping real production AI systems, not long advisory cycles or slide decks.
Projects are short and intense, typically capped at three months, moving quickly from problem definition to prototype to production deployment inside real client environments. The setup is technical, fast, and built for engineers who like ownership and momentum.
This role is built around Claude Code and agent-driven development. It is not a traditional AI or software engineering role. The core of the job is designing outcomes, writing specs and evals, orchestrating agents, and shipping systems faster than classical teams can.
What you’ll be doing
- Using Claude Code as your primary development interface, coordinating multiple agents in parallel
- Designing specs, evals, and feedback loops rather than hand-coding implementations
- Turning fast prototypes into enterprise-grade AI applications deployed to cloud environments
- Integrating AI systems into real client platforms and production infrastructure
- Working closely with senior technical leadership to define how agent-driven development should work in practice
- Shipping real systems for real organisations across industry, public sector, and NGOs
- Strong bias toward building and shipping real systems
- Engineers are trusted to make decisions rather than follow rigid playbooks
- High technical bar with a pragmatic, low-ego team
- Exposure to a wide range of real-world problems rather than a single product
- Actively use Claude Code and have strong opinions on how to work with it effectively
- See reading every line of code as a bottleneck, not a virtue
- Have built evals and let agents run for extended periods to reach better outcomes
- Have converted APIs into MCP servers or understand why you would
- Are comfortable deciding when Claude Code beats alternatives like Codex
- Prefer speed, ambiguity, and responsibility over process
- Want to personally write most of the code
- Are looking for a traditional AI or ML engineering role
- Need clearly defined tasks and guardrails before starting
- Are uncomfortable moving fast in uncertainty
- 3 years building and shipping production software systems
- Strong Python foundation and broad software engineering judgement
- Experience deploying and operating ML-backed systems in production
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform, ideally Azure
- Comfort shaping solutions where the problem is not fully specified
- German language ability at B2 level or higher
- Up to €120,000 base salary plus bonus
- Hybrid setup with 3 days per week in Berlin
- A genuinely non-traditional engineering role centred on Claude Code
- High autonomy and direct influence on how the team builds software
