Head of AI ML

Xcede; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Annual performance bonus

30 days holiday

Hybrid work model

Zusammenfassung

Xcede, a technology leadership partner, seeks a technical leader to guide three AI engineering teams in Berlin. You will own standards, architecture and strategy across NLP, conversational AI, and platform engineering, reporting to the VP of Product.

This role emphasizes impact and scalability over hands-on coding, requiring deep ML/NLP expertise. You will set production AI standards, ensure governance and compliance, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and management, and stay ahead of

Qualifikationen

• Lead AI/ML engineering with deep hands-on expertise in NLP/LLMs.
• Set technical standards and production AI best practices.
• Translate business requirements into AI strategy across automation and knowledge management.
• Build evaluation, monitoring, and observability for AI systems.
• Mentor engineers and define career paths within the chapter.
• Collaborate with product and executive teams on AI risk and governance.
• Fluent German (C1/C2) and strong English.

Aufgaben

• Set technical standards and best practices for production AI systems, with a focus on conversational and agentic AI.
• Own architecture and technology decisions tied to measurable business value, not AI hype.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear AI/ML strategy across automation, knowledge management and decision support.
• Build evaluation and testing frameworks, production monitoring, and observability, including model and data drift, rollbacks, and compliance.
• Lead, coach, and mentor engineers, and develop roles, skill profiles, and career paths within the chapter.
• Work closely with product, business, and top management, including risk management for probabilistic AI systems.
• Stay close to developments in LLMs, agentic systems, and orchestration, and feed that into strategy.

Kenntnisse

AI/ML leadership

NLP expertise

Python

LLMs / modern AI

RAG / vector databases

LangChain / LangGraph

Production systems observability

Mentoring engineers

Security & compliance (PII)

German language (C1/C2)

English communication

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Jobbeschreibung

Xcede is partnering with a global energy and sustainability business operating across 20 countries, with around 6,000 employees and over €1 billion in revenue. Their smart metering products reach 14 million homes and commercial properties, and a strong regulatory tailwind is set to drive growth across the next decade. The business is now building AI/ML into a long-term core capability and is looking for a technical leader to shape how that function is built, run, and scaled.

The Role

This is a leadership role sitting above three AI engineering teams covering knowledge curation and NLP, conversational and agentic AI (including a production voicebot), and platform engineering. You will own technical standards, architecture and technology decisions, and people development across a team of 5 to 6 AI/ML engineers, reporting directly into the VP of Product. The focus is on quality, impact, and scalability rather than daily hands-on coding, but this is a role for a strong engineer who leads strong engineers, so deep and current ML/NLP expertise is essential

What You Will Be Doing

• Setting technical standards and best practices for production AI systems, with a focus on conversational and agentic AI
• Owning architecture and technology decisions tied to measurable business value, not AI hype
• Translating complex business requirements into clear AI/ML strategy across automation, knowledge management, and decision support
• Building evaluation and testing frameworks, production monitoring, and observability, including model and data drift, rollbacks, and compliance
• Leading, coaching, and mentoring engineers, and developing roles, skill profiles, and career paths within the chapter
• Working closely with product, business, and top management, including expectation and risk management for probabilistic AI systems
• Staying close to developments in LLMs, agentic systems, and orchestration, and feeding that into strategy

What We Are Looking For

• Several years in AI/ML engineering with deep, current, hands-on expertise. This is a technical leadership role and applied ML/NLP depth is non-negotiable
• Strong knowledge of machine learning, LLMs, and modern AI architectures, plus RAG, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph
• Strong Python and solid software engineering foundations (system architecture, data pipelines, APIs)
• Cloud experience across Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Experience with model evaluation, monitoring, and observability in production, including model and data drift
• Understanding of security and compliance, particularly around PII and AI risk
• Demonstrated leadership experience in an engineering environment, technical and/or disciplinary
• Consulting, in-house consulting, or stakeholder-heavy backgrounds are a plus
• Fluent German (C1/C2) and strong English are essential

What Is On Offer

• Up to €150,000 depending on experience, including a company performance bonus that has paid out every year for the past five years
• 30 days holiday
• Hybrid working, around 50% remote, with a flexible split
• High visibility and real influence over product and business decisions, reporting into the VP of Product