AI Engineer

About the role

As an AI Engineer, you will help shape how AI is applied across the organization by combining hands-on engineering with enablement and guidance. The AI Enablement team supports the adoption of AI capabilities across Raisin's products and internal systems, focusing on establishing a consistent and reliable approach to using AI in production.

What you'll do

• Work with product and engineering teams to identify and refine AI use cases
• Support teams in integrating AI capabilities into their systems and workflows by providing clear guidance on patterns, trade-offs, and practical implementation approaches
• Define and implement patterns for integrating LLM capabilities into the platform
• Contribute to shared components or lightweight services that simplify access to AI capabilities across teams
• Manage AI costs and budget usage when providing shared model access and services to other teams
• Evaluate tools, platforms, and approaches with consideration for scalability, security, and maintainability
• Optimize AI system efficiency by making principled model selections based on cost-performance trade-offs, inference latency, and token usage optimization
• Collaborate with Security, Legal, and other stakeholders on requirements related to AI usage

What you'll need

• Strong experience as a Software Engineer (5+ years), with focus on backend or platform development
• Strong generalist mindset, comfortable working across technical domains
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred; JVM languages also relevant)
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Solid understanding of APIs, system integration, and distributed systems
• Practical experience working with AI tools or platforms (e.g. LLM APIs or similar technologies)
• Familiarity with concepts such as prompt design, context engineering, retrieval-based approaches, or AI-driven workflows
• Ability to assess where AI adds value and where it does not

What they offer

• Employee Development Budget of 2,000 EUR and four full training days per year
• Flexible working hours, home office, and 30 vacation days
• Company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge) with 20% employer support
• Urban Sports Club membership subsidy of 20+ EUR per month
• Deutschland Ticket subsidy of 25 EUR per month
• JobRad bike leasing with Raisin covering monthly insurance costs