Chapter Lead AI Engineering (f/m/d)

VESTIGAS GmbH; München; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership

Direct access to founders

AI‑First workflow

Hybrid Munich office

Wellpass or BahnCard

Team events/offsites

Job summary

VESTIGAS GmbH in Munich is seeking a Chapter Lead AI Engineering to own the AI infrastructure and end-to-end capabilities of our supply chain platform. You’ll lead the AI engineering chapter across Scrum teams, shaping architecture and setting engineering standards.

You will drive MLOps, data pipelines, model deployment, and accuracy benchmarks, while mentoring engineers and ensuring robust, compliant AI solutions for real-world documents.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years in AI engineering with at least one year in technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience across AI lifecycle and MLOps.
• Strong track record shipping production AI systems and data pipelines.
• Proficient in NLP and image processing.
• Fluent in English and German (C1+).
• Willingness to work from Munich office at least two days a week.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the AI engineering chapter and align across Scrum teams.
• Own MLOps processes, reliability, scalability, and security of AI systems.
• Drive design/implementation of advanced AI features with product leadership.
• Set accuracy, efficiency, and uncertainty benchmarks for AI features.
• Ensure scalable, maintainable AI solutions and build new ones from scratch.

Skills

Leadership

MLOps ownership

NLP proficiency

Image processing

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/CS

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Job description

We're digitizing the construction industry – are you in?

At VESTIGAS, you build the digital backbone of the construction supply chain. We turn purchase orders, delivery notes, and invoices into a digital, legally compliant platform used in everyday operations by construction companies and suppliers. You’ll work on a product with real market traction in the DACH mid-market, ship iteratively, and take ownership of solutions that must work in the field – not just in theory.

Your Role

As Chapter Lead AI Engineering, you'll own the AI infrastructure and capabilities that power our supply chain platform end to end – from pipeline design to production deployment. You bring experience in technical leadership and take responsibility for the AI engineering chapter across Scrum teams, shaping architecture, aligning technical standards, and enabling engineers to build dependable AI systems. This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

The Technical ChallengeYour chapter will tackle problems like extracting structured data reliably from many different documents, building uncertainty estimation so the system knows when to flag a document for human review instead of silently guessing, and automatically reconciling purchase orders, delivery notes, and invoices against each other – all within legal and compliance requirements that leave no room for "close enough". This is a domain where clean benchmark metrics mean far less than robustness against real documents nobody has seen before – and you'll set the technical direction for how the chapter navigates that trade-off, deciding where to push automation further and where human review still matters. Agentic AI systems that plan, use tools, and act on their own are an increasingly important part of this work as well.

Your Mission

• Provide technical leadership for the AI engineering chapter, own its technical direction and strengthen shared engineering practices across Scrum teams
• Own MLOps processes and infrastructure, ensuring our AI systems are reliable, scalable, and secure
• Drive the design and implementation of advanced AI features, partner closely with engineering and product leadership to deploy machine learning models and data pipelines
• Set the bar for accuracy, efficiency, and uncertainty estimation of our AI features through rigorous testing practices
• Ensure the scalability, maintainability, and core functionality of our AI solutions – and drive the build of new ones from scratch
• Translate customer needs into technical priorities and represent AI engineering in strategic product and sales discussions
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, tooling, and quality practices across the chapter
• Mentor fellow AI engineers through technical feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing
• Champion the use of modern AI tools such as Claude or Cursor across the chapter

Your Profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; alternatively, an equivalent education
• You have at least five years of AI engineering experience, including one year of technical leadership, with practical responsibility spanning the AI lifecycle and MLOps
• Demonstrated ownership of technical decisions, with the ability to align engineers across teams and mentor peers
• Hands‑on expertise in natural language processing and image processing
• Strong Python skills and experience with Azure; Terraform experience is a plus
• A passion for generative AI, OCR, and building customer‑focused solutions
• A habit of writing clean, well‑tested code with an eye on what happens after deployment
• Solid understanding of AI agents, tools, and their limitations
• Fluent English and German (C1 or above)
• Willingness to work from our Munich office at least two days a week

Your Benefits

• Real ownership instead of micromanagement. You shape, you decide, and you see the impact of your work directly in the market.
• Direct line to founders and leadership. Flat hierarchies are our everyday reality – short paths, fast decisions.
• AI‑First workflow. Copilot, Claude, Cursor & co. are standard tools for us. We expect and support their use.
• Hybrid work with an office in the heart of Munich, just around the corner from Theresienwiese. Flexible setup with regular office presence – because we believe the best ideas happen in person.
• EGYM Wellpass or BahnCard, corporate benefits, team events, annual offsites.
• Fair, competitive compensation.