AI/LLM Engineer

About the Role A fast-growing, Y Combinator-backed B2B SaaS startup in the sales automation space is looking for an AI/LLM Engineer to join their team in Munich. The company automates quote and order processing for distributors and manufacturers — helping sales teams eliminate manual overhead and close more deals with AI-driven tooling. This is a high-impact, full-stack AI engineering role where you'll own end-to-end delivery of intelligent features: from data pipelines and LLM fine-tuning to production deployment. You'll be joining a small, senior team at an early stage with significant engineering ownership and direct influence on product direction. What You'll Do Design, build, deploy, and optimize AI agents across the full stack — end to end Work with embeddings and fine-tune LLMs for classification and reranking tasks Optimize algorithms for product search and matching Apply RLHF and DPO techniques to align LLMs with human feedback Build robust data pipelines to process large-scale unstructured data efficiently Contribute to backend scalability, stability, and performance improvements What We're Looking For Must-haves: 2+ years of hands-on engineering experience Strong experience with NLP, LLMs, embeddings, ML, and production AI agents Experience with full-stack development using React, TypeScript, and Next.js Demonstrated experience scaling data and ML pipelines, including large-scale unstructured data Practical experience with RLHF and DPO for LLM alignment Strong CS fundamentals Willingness to work on-site in Munich Nice to have: Experience with containerization ( Docker, Kubernetes ) Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Infrastructure-as-code experience ( Terraform ) Compensation & Benefits Salary: $90,000 – $200,000 USD annually (depending on experience) Visa sponsorship available Early-stage equity opportunity at a well-funded, high-growth startup Location Munich, Germany — on-site role Visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate