Software Engineer – Engine Integration

Optimuse GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Daily meal allowance

Team events

Free snacks

Hybrid work option

Zusammenfassung

OPTIMUSE is a Vienna-based AI startup transforming real estate and construction with engine-based insights. As a Product Engineer collaborator, you will bridge domain knowledge and platform needs, turning prototypes into reliable services and shaping production-ready interfaces.

We value strong backend skills in Python and TypeScript, a pragmatic, low-ego approach, and the ability to explain trade-offs to physicists and engineers alike.

Qualifikationen

• Several years of professional software engineering across the stack.
• Backend focus with a strong code-reading ability.
• Ability to read and judge code you didn't write.

Aufgaben

• Run the Engines and improve accuracy, speed, and observability.
• Onboard new prototypes, assess production-readiness and edge cases.
• Decompose monoliths, define interfaces and data contracts.

Kenntnisse

Python

TypeScript

Code comprehension

Backend engineering

Jobbeschreibung

Our Product Engineers are domain experts first, developers second. They build Engines - the simulations and models that capture how buildings actually behave - fast, and increasingly with AI. But these prototypes live on GitHub and only run on laptops: untested against the platform, unavailable to customers.

That's the gap you close. You're the key counterpart to our Product Engineers: you understand what an Engine computes, how , and why - well enough to decide where each piece belongs, hand off what belongs to other teams, and build the rest yourself. No finished spec lands in your inbox. You read other people's code, ask the right questions, and turn a working prototype into a service we can run and trust. We work in a strongly agentic way - so will you.

Your mission

Run our Engines and make them better - correct, fast, observable. When results look wrong, you can tell whether it's the data, the integration, or the physics.

Onboard new prototypes - understand the method and edge cases; judge what's production-ready and what needs a rewrite.

Find the right home for each function - decompose monoliths and define the interfaces and data contracts that make those boundaries real.

Integrate - with Planning and our Systems Architects, translating between domain and platform language, then build what remains yourself.

Make the next Engine easier than the last - shape the conventions that let prototypes arrive closer to integration-ready.

You won't do this alone: DevOps, App/Experience, AI, and Data & Flows already own their domains.

Your profile

Several years of professional software engineering across the stack, centre of gravity in the backend .

Python and TypeScript - strong in one, comfortable in the other, attached to neither.

The ability to read and judge code you didn't write, including scientific and numerical code.

A low-ego, collaborative style with domain experts, and the skill to explain trade-offs to people who think in physics, not architecture.

Professional English. German is a plus, not a requirement.

Nice-to-have

Geometry in code (computational geometry, meshes, CAD or BIM/IFC).

Simulation and numerical methods (thermal/energy simulation, FEM/CFD, solvers).

Real experience with AI and agentic workflows.

Productionizing research or prototype code (ML pipelines, scientific computing, quant models).

Why us?

Real impact. The Engines you integrate don't sit in a demo - they feed real investment decisions and move the platform forward in tangible ways.

The full solution chain. From digital twin to performance monitoring - you work across a complete product portfolio, not isolated one-off projects. Every Engine you bring in has a real place in the whole.

Flexible working models. Home-office option and a modern office in the heart of Vienna.

And the day-to-day works too. Daily meal allowance (€5/day), regular team events, free snacks.

About us

OPTIMUSE is a Vienna-based AI startup revolutionizing the real estate and construction industry. We bring insights to the world's largest asset class that it never had before - both for new developments and existing portfolios. Our AI Hans delivers instant, deep engineering insight into costs, risks and optimization potential, grounded in building physics, simulation and engineering. Backed by international investors and a team of ~25 people from around 10 nations. Become a part of it!