Senior AI Deployment Engineer (m/f/d)

E.ON Drive Infrastructure GmbH; Essen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Company pension scheme

5,000 EUR training budget per year

Welcome gifts and hardware

Job summary

E.ON Drive Infrastructure seeks an experienced AI professional to join its AI UNIT. You will work embedded with business teams across Europe to identify high-impact AI opportunities and deliver practical solutions that go live in days.

You will design, build, and deploy AI systems with strong Python/TypeScript skills, handling evals, monitoring, and security. You will drive AI adoption through training, enablement, and collaboration with Full-Stack/AI engineers, while measuring impact and

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering AI or automation solutions actively used in production.
• Production experience with Generative AI, including prompting, RAG, tool integration, agents, and evals.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience working with APIs, integrations, and enterprise business systems.
• Ability to translate business challenges into practical, working solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on mindset with a strong focus on execution and outcomes.
• Passion for innovation, AI, and accelerating the energy transition.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize AI use cases, embedded with business functions and regional teams.
• Design, build, and deploy AI solutions, automations, and integrations in short sprints (<10 person-days).
• Develop production-ready AI systems, including evals, monitoring, security, and access control.
• Integrate modern AI technologies and agentic systems into existing processes.
• Drive AI adoption through training and enablement.
• Measure solution usage, user adoption, and business impact.
• Create reusable templates, playbooks, and best practices to scale AI.
• Handover solutions to Full-Stack and AI/ML Engineers for scaling.
• Evaluate emerging AI models and tooling and bring innovations to business.

Skills

AI/automation production

Generative AI (prompting, RAG, tools,

Python

TypeScript

APIs & enterprise systems

Stakeholder management

Execution mindset

AI & energy transition

Tools

Azure

Power Platform

Software engineering

Job description

Your mission

Are you passionate about bringing AI from experimentation into everyday business? Join our newly established AI UNIT within E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI), a special unit built and run like a startup: trust instead of control, freedom instead of process, speed instead of committees. Working embedded with our business functions and regional teams across Europe, you will identify high-impact opportunities, build practical AI solutions that go live in days, not months, and drive measurable business value at scale. You report to our Head of AI Operations.
Your Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize AI use cases, working embedded with business functions and regional teams
• Design, build, and deploy AI solutions, automations, and integrations in short sprints of under 10 person-days
• Develop production-ready AI systems, including evals, monitoring, security, and access control
• Integrate modern AI technologies and agentic systems into existing business processes
• Drive AI adoption through training and enablement
• Measure solution usage, user adoption, and business impact
• Create reusable templates, playbooks, and best practices to accelerate scaling
• Hand over solutions that need to scale to our Full-Stack and AI/ML Engineers
• Evaluate emerging AI models, AI tooling, and agentic systems and bring valuable innovations into the business
• Support Junior AI Deployment Engineers and share your knowledge – this is a senior individual contributor role

Your profile

Your profile Must have

• Proven experience delivering AI or automation solutions that are actively used in production
• Production experience with Generative AI, including prompting, RAG, tool integration, agents, and evals
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript
• Experience working with APIs, integrations, and enterprise business systems
• Ability to quickly translate business challenges into practical, working solutions
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Hands-on mindset with a strong focus on execution and outcomes
• Passion for innovation, AI, and accelerating the energy transition

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure and Microsoft technologies
• Low-code platforms such as Power Automate, n8n, or Make
• A background as forward deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or consultant who shipped code
• Experience with change management and user adoption

Why us?

• People take centre stage: Become part of a dynamic, ambitious and agile team that develops solutions for the eMobility market and be part of our EDRI events
• With us, you get the best of both worlds - 100% start-up with the support of a large company
• The freedom you need: We offer you hybrid working with flexible working hours
• Workation: Enjoy the flexibility to work temporarily from abroad – within the EU
• You will receive a competitive salary
• A company pension scheme is of course also one of the benefits with us
• Sustainable learning opportunities: We support you with a training budget of 5,000 euros per year
• You get everything you need to get started: onboarding with welcome gifts and all the hardware you need

Contact

Diversity counts at E.ON. We welcome all people and are convinced that differences make us stronger. Become part of our inclusive and diverse corporate culture!
Seize the opportunity to become part of our E.ON Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of E.ON, but also for your own.
We look forward to getting to know you!
Laura
Junior Recruiter