AI/ML Engineer (f/m/d)

Valova; München; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site Munich/Berlin

WeWork offices

Founders access

Ownership from week one

Job summary

Valova in Munich/Berlin is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to own the core of our agentic systems that convert German clinical documentation into billable codes. You will build production-grade pipelines, optimize model usage, and ensure traceability of every decision.

You collaborate with our CTO, doctors, and product teams to translate cutting-edge research into production within weeks, delivering measurable impact in hospitals.

Qualifications

• Production experience in ML/AI systems in production.
• Strong experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks.
• Proficient in your primary programming language.
• Experience with observability, evaluation and benchmarking of ML systems.
• Care about outcomes and real user experiences with LLMs.
• Nice to have: experience in healthcare or regulated data environments.
• Fluent English; German is a plus due to German clinical docs.
• Work from Munich or Berlin offices.

Responsibilities

• Build state-of-the-art agents and production-grade pipelines for healthcare text processing.
• Ensure every decision is traceable and monitor performance in production.
• Develop evaluation setups to measure improvements on every change.
• Translate new AI/ML research into production within weeks.
• Contribute to shaping product decisions with AI/ML insights.

Skills

Production in ML/AI

LLMs & agents

Coding proficiency

Observability & eval

Product mindset

Healthcare experience

English fluency

German a plus

Office Munich/Berlin

Office presence

Job description

About Valova

We are building the AI operations platform for European hospitals, so every clinician can focus on patients. Behind every patient sits a chain of admin work: documentation, coding, billing, audits, scheduling. It runs through disconnected systems and endless manual hand-offs , while most German hospitals already operate at a loss . We start where the impact is measurable from day one: case to cash . Valova codes every case, defends it in audits and makes sure the money lands. From there we take on every workflow that runs a hospital , until one agentic system handles the routine and people decide the exceptions. First Germany, then Europe. Doctors, engineers and operators, on-site in Munich and Berlin . Join us!

Why this role matters

Our agents are the product. Every case Valova codes runs through agentic systems that read clinical documentation, apply coding rules and justify every decision. How accurate, how fast and how efficient these systems are decides how much revenue hospitals recover and how much time coders get back. As AI/ML Engineer, you own the core of Valova : the agents that turn long, unstructured German clinical documentation into codes a hospital can bill and defend. You decide how we combine large and small models, how we measure quality and how new research makes it into production within weeks, not quarters . Your impact is directly measurable: in coding accuracy, in token costs per case and in hospitals that trust every decision because they can trace it. This is a hands‑on engineering role building AI systems in production with real users. It’s not academic research, and it’s not prompt tinkering on the side of a product others build.

How the role sits in the team

You report directly to Christian, our CTO, and work day to day with our engineering team on the agent pipeline, infrastructure and evaluation. With Malte and our product team, you translate what is technically possible into product decisions. Our doctors and coding experts are your sparring partners for clinical quality, and our forward deployed team brings back how the agents perform in real hospitals. Du berichtest direkt an Christian, unseren CTO, und arbeitest täglich mit unserem Engineering-Team an der Agenten-Pipeline, der Infrastruktur und der Evaluation. Mit Malte und unserem Produktteam übersetzt Du, was technisch möglich ist, in Produktentscheidungen. Unsere Ärzt:innen und Kodierexpert:innen sind Deine Sparringspartner für klinische Qualität, und unser Forward-Deployed-Team bringt zurück, wie die Agenten in echten Kliniken performen.

What you will do

• Build state-of-the-art agents: You build high‑performing agentic systems that define the state of the art in healthcare text processing, while staying efficient in token usage and leveraging small models wherever possible.
• Make every decision traceable: You ensure every decision and output of our agents is traced, and you monitor their performance in production.
• Measure what matters: You build the evaluation and benchmarking setup that tells us, on every change, whether our agents got better or worse.
• Bring research to production: You follow new AI/ML approaches, benchmark promising ideas and make sure the best results reach production within weeks.
• Shape the product: You use your AI/ML expertise to evaluate future projects and inform product decisions.

What we are looking for

• Production experience: At least two years building and shipping ML/AI systems in production.
• LLM and agent expertise: Strong experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks.
• Engineering depth: Strong proficiency in your primary programming language.
• Evaluation mindset: Experience with observability, evaluation and benchmarking of ML systems.
• Product mindset: You care about outcomes that lead to great user experiences and are passionate about using LLMs in real‑world scenarios rather than academic research.
• Nice to have: Experience in healthcare, regulated environments or with sensitive data.
• Languages: You speak fluent English. German is a big plus, since the clinical documents our agents process are in German.
• Location: You work from our office in Munich or Berlin.

What you get

• Work that means something, every day. Your agents are the core of our product and directly help improve the German healthcare system.
• Ownership from week one. You take over real projects with a clear outcome and your name on it, not a list of tasks someone else defined.
• Direct access to the founders. You work day to day with our founders Sophia, a physician and ex‑McKinsey consultant, and Christian, who has founded two health tech startups and spent a decade building clinical systems. No layers, no waiting weeks for approvals.
• Trust and freedom. We trust you to solve problems your way, and the team has your back 100%.
• Learning at startup speed. You will see more in one year here than in three years elsewhere, across models, infrastructure, product and customers, with a team that has a proven track record of deploying AI in healthcare.
• One team, in the heart of the city. We work together on‑site at WeWork Odeonsplatz in Munich and WeWork in central Berlin. Fully serviced offices with coffee, meeting rooms and phone booths mean zero admin, and the city‑center location means short commutes, easy access to customers and investors, and lunch spots around every corner.
• Team events that bring Munich and Berlin together, because the people you build with should also be the people you celebrate with.

What success looks like

• After 3 months, you know our agent pipeline inside out, every agent decision is traced, and you have shipped your first improvement to production.
• After 6 months, our evaluation and benchmarking setup runs on every change, and you have measurably improved coding quality or reduced token costs per case.
• After 12 months, at least one new approach from research is running in production, and parts of our pipeline run on smaller models without losing quality.
• Throughout, our AI‑related product decisions are grounded in your benchmarks, and the team turns to you when a new model or method comes out.

We look forward to your application, regardless of gender, background, religion, disability, age or sexual identity.