Senior AI/LLM Engineer

BOND; St. Pölten; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Equipment provided

Hybrid work

Flexible hours

Direct founders access

Team events

Job summary

BOND, based in Vienna, is building a platform to read, translate, and match European tenders at scale. You will lead the AI side of our product, owning features end to end—from problem framing to production operation—and set the bar for AI engineering at BOND.

You will design and ship core AI features, mentor engineers, collaborate with founders, and balance quality, cost, and speed for real users. We offer €80K–€110K, equity, equipment, hybrid work from our Vienna office, flexible hours, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with AI/ML in production.
• Ability to own systems end to end.
• Sound judgment in selecting simple vs. sophisticated approaches.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions.
• Fluent English; German language skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship the AI features at the core of the product.
• Own quality by building evaluation practices.
• Set technical direction and build-vs-skip decisions with the founders.
• Mentor other engineers and raise the team's AI/LLM craft.
• Balance quality, cost, and speed for real users at scale.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

End-to-end ownership

Mentoring engineers

English fluency

German language (nice to have)

Job description

About BOND

BOND makes Europe's €2 trillion public procurement market accessible to every business. Public contracts are published across hundreds of portals, in dozens of languages, with different formats and deadlines — so most companies never even see the contracts they could win. BOND brings them together in one feed, translates them automatically, and uses AI to match every tender against a company's profile.

BOND makes Europe's €2 trillion public procurement market accessible to every business. Public contracts are published across hundreds of portals, in dozens of languages, with different formats and deadlines — so most companies never even see the contracts they could win. BOND brings them together in one feed, translates them automatically, and uses AI to match every tender against a company's profile.

Tender discovery is just the beginning. Our vision is a platform that handles the entire path from finding a public contract to submitting a winning bid. We are based in Vienna and backed by the NVIDIA Inception, Microsoft for Startups, and AWS programs, and businesses across Europe already rely on BOND every day.

We live ownership: you are responsible for your projects end to end. No politics, few meetings, direct feedback, and short paths to the founders. Join us to help open one of the largest and least accessible markets in the world.

The role

You will lead the AI side of our product: the systems that read, understand, translate, and match public tenders at European scale. You own features end to end — problem framing, design, implementation, evaluation, and production operation — and you set the bar for how AI work is done at BOND.

What you will do

• Design and ship the AI features at the core of the product
• Own quality: build evaluation practices so changes ship with evidence
• Set technical direction and make build-vs-skip decisions with the founders
• Mentor other engineers and raise the team's AI/LLM engineering craft
• Balance quality, cost, and speed in a product with real users and real scale

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with several years shipping AI/ML-powered products to production
• Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to own systems end to end
• Sound judgment: you know when a simple approach beats a sophisticated one
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions
• Fluent English; German is a plus

What we offer

• Salary: €80K – €110K depending on experience
• Equity: you build BOND, so you should own a piece of it
• Equipment of your choice — whatever makes you do your best work
• Hybrid work from our Vienna office, flexible hours
• Direct collaboration with the founders — no politics, short decision paths
• Regular team events, and coffee, drinks, and snacks in the office