About the Position

Applied AI Engineer (Germany-based)

BoWatt GmbH is building agentic requirements and system engineering software for manufacturing. We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years. This will unlock massive value across several complex manufacturing industries.

You’ll join a small, exceptional team of startup builders, driven by innovation and execution. Over half the team are former founders across DeepTech AI, psychedelics, and gaming. We’ve studied and worked at top institutions and companies like Stanford, TUM, Google, EA, and YC-backed AI startups.

Responsibilities

Design and implement AI-powered features using existing large language models
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify use cases where AI can improve customer experience
Build multi-step agent workflows that reason over requirements documents and system specs
Integrate AI systems with internal data sources, expanding agent knowledge
Work with the engineering team to deploy AI features into production environments

Requirements

Have 3+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year working with LLMs
Have a strong interest in agentic technologies and techniques
Are experienced with integrating AI capabilities in previous roles, preferably having worked with a variety of AI APIs, tools, and frameworks
Are comfortable owning your implementations end to end, learning the tools you need for tasks as you go
Are knowledgeable about security, data privacy, and data hygiene, especially surrounding agent integration
Thrive in a startup environment with a lot of creative freedom
Are based in Germany and have the right to work here

Nice to Have

Experience with vector databases like Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector, etc.
Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex
Experience in Azure AI Foundry and other Azure products
Experience with React or a similar modern web technology (e.g., Vue, Svelte)

We Offer

Competitive salary based on experience (€70,000 - €100,000)
Equity in the company (0.5 - 1%)
Fully remote, hybrid, or onsite? Up to you.
Top-tier hardware, as well as any other tools of your choice

About the Company

BoWatt is building agentic requirements and system engineering software for manufacturing. We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years. This will unlock massive value across several complex manufacturing industries.

BoWatt is backed by tier-1 investors, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo.

Interview Process

20-minute Intro call
Tech test (take-home)
90-minute Technical interview (CTO + Martin)
60-minute Culture fit interview (CEO + CPO)
Offer and reference checks

We aim to complete the interview process within 14 days.

Compensation Range: €70K - €100K

Applied AI Engineer (Germany-based)

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