Senior AI Deployment Engineer (m/f/d)

Edri; Essen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

EU workation

Competitive salary

Company pension

Training budget €5,000/year

Job summary

E.ON Drive Infrastructure's AI UNIT in Essen is seeking an experienced AI/Automation engineer to translate AI experiments into production-ready solutions. You will work embedded with business teams across Europe, delivering rapid, scalable AI deployments.

You will design and implement AI systems, monitor performance, and drive adoption with training, playbooks, and reusable templates. Hybrid work and EU workation options are available.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering AI or automation solutions in production.
• Production experience with Generative AI, including prompting and evals.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills.
• Experience with APIs, integrations, and enterprise systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize AI use cases with business teams.
• Design, build, deploy AI solutions in short sprints.
• Develop production-ready AI systems, including evals and monitoring.
• Integrate modern AI technologies into existing processes.
• Drive AI adoption through training and enablement.
• Measure usage, adoption, and business impact.
• Create reusable templates, playbooks, and best practices to scale.
• Hand over scalable solutions to Full-Stack/AI engineers.
• Evaluate emerging AI models and tooling for business use.
• Support junior deployment engineers and share knowledge.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

APIs

Stakeholder management

Communication

Change management

Tools

Power Automate

n8n

Make

Azure

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

• 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
• We hire for spikes, not for resumes.

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

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.