[Hiring] AI Engineer @MAIA

Role Description

As an AI Engineer, you develop MAIA further and help decide from the start how we solve problems.

• From concept to feature: Together with product management, you sharpen rough concepts and own features from prototype to continuous improvement based on feedback and usage data.
• Chat and agents: You shape how people work with MAIA: asking questions, providing context and letting agents complete multi-step tasks, with traceable progress and verifiable results.
• Unlocking company knowledge: You connect external systems and make knowledge from many different file formats usable. This way, MAIA finds the right passages, delivers answers with sources and respects existing access rights.
• Models and quality: You integrate new language models and compare quality, cost and speed. With evals, you detect errors and systematically improve answers and agents.
• Secure, fast and stable: You build isolated environments for running code and tools and improve response times and data processing, so that MAIA runs reliably even with large knowledge bases.

Qualifications

• Solid software engineering: You have built and shipped backend systems and operated them in production over a longer period. Architecture, API design, data modelling and asynchronous processing are familiar to you.
• Very strong in at least one of our languages: TypeScript, Python or Go, ideally one of the statically typed ones. You don't need all three. You'll get up to speed in the others.
• At home in the LLM ecosystem: You have built real applications with LLMs, professionally or in complex personal projects. You know RAG, embeddings, vector search and tool calling from practice, including where they fail.
• Measure, don't guess: You know how to test and evaluate systems that don't always give the same answer to the same question. You build the simplest solution that solves the problem.
• Product thinking: You think about the person who needs to finish a quote under time pressure or clarify a technical question with MAIA.
• Agentic engineering: Coding agents are part of your daily work. You write plans that others review and that coding agents can build on.
• Security-minded: Tenant isolation, access rights and secure development are second nature to you.
• Remote-ready: You communicate proactively, document your work so others can follow it, and move things forward without constant coordination.
• Clear communication: You explain technical topics clearly, including to product management, customer success and sales. You are fluent in English. German is a plus.

Benefits

• Access to the latest frontier models and coding agents.
• Support for training that fits your professional development.
• Access to a Wellpass membership.
• Compensation: The annual gross salary is €75,000 to €95,000, depending on your level. On top of that, you receive a virtual share in our VSOP.

Application and next steps

• You don't need a cover letter. Send us your CV and answer one question in a few sentences of your own: Why do you want to help shape MAIA?
• If there's a fit, you'll have a 30-minute intro call, a 90-minute technical interview and a final conversation with our management.
• After each step, you'll usually hear from us within two business days. Our goal is a decision in about three weeks.

Company Description

MAIA is the AI platform built for industrial companies - the places where generic AI tools break down because the data is complex, the stakes are high, and precision actually matters. We focus on the hard problems: integrating with real engineering workflows, understanding complex technical documents, and turning implicit organizational knowledge into something the whole company can build on.