Public summary
Join a leading European initiative advancing industrial AI by solving complex engineering challenges in design, simulation, and manufacturing. This senior role leads technical AI strategy, drives client projects from concept to production, coaches engineers, and shapes innovative AI solutions across industry. Flexible hybrid work with offices in Heilbronn and Munich, plus a diverse, interdisciplinary team focused on collaborative and trustworthy AI advancements.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Heilbronn, Munich
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- German requirement signal
- Unclear
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Lead technical direction for industrial AI portfolio covering design, simulation, and manufacturing. Translate poorly defined engineering problems into solvable AI solutions. Serve as specialist authority in client projects to guide prototype development and production readiness. Drive new client engagements from workshops to proposals. Develop reference architectures, evaluation methods, and accelerators for practice-wide use. Coach and support engineering team growth through standards and code reviews.
Qualifications
10+ years in computational engineering via PhD or equivalent industry experience, with deep understanding of design validation, manufacturing processes, and handover challenges. Expertise in surrogate and reduced-order modeling, physics-informed and data-driven approaches, optimization, generative geometry, and AI agent technologies. Proven ability to deploy and maintain AI systems in production with best practices for testing, CI/CD, and monitoring. Strong commercial acumen with experience in startups or intrapreneurial roles. Comfortable communicating technical concepts in English and German with engineering leaders on-site and remotely.