Resident Engineer(m/w/x)

## Resident Engineer ###### Permanent employee, Full-time ·Germany Berlin --- ##### Your mission **You’ll play a key role in the success of deepset AI Platform, our SaaS platform for Large Language Model (LLM) applications**, empowering users to build their own LLM-powered features. You will be our very first Resident Engineer supporting the growth of our enterprise clients, therefore, this person will be instrumental in helping to define ​and architect the impact and scope of this ​position - an awesome opportunity for the right curious individual ##### Your impact * Act as a dedicated technical subject matter expert (SME) and trusted advisor for our largest customer’s on-premise and cloud-based implementations, ensuring seamless integration of Haystack and deepset AI Platform into customer ecosystems. * Provide on-site (or remote) support, troubleshooting, and guidance for deployments, integrations, and performance optimisation. * Collaborate with customer engineering, product, DevOps and delivery teams to ensure smooth adoption and usage of the product; including project management of Customer and deepset resources. * Deliver workshops, technical enablement, and best-practice documentation to upskill the customer’s technical teams. * Work closely with internal teams (Customer Success, Professional Services, Support, and Product) to escalate and resolve technical issues. * Help drive customer adoption, retention, and expansion through technical excellence, strategic guidance, training, enablement and hackathons. * Provide deepset and AI COE (Center of Excellence) setup and governance guidance ##### Your profile * Proven experience in AI, NLP, ML engineering, or technical customer-facing roles (e.g., Solution Architect, ML Engineer, NLP Engineer). * Demonstrable experience leading end-to-end projects, with strong Project Management principles. * Expertise in NLP, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures. * Strong experience with Haystack, deepset Cloud, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar search technologies. * Proficiency in Python, APIs, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and deploying ML models in production. * Experience with On Premise (bare metal and VPC) deployments. * Ability to work with LLMs and fine-tune models for domain-specific applications. * Experience with integrating AI solutions with enterprise IT architectures. * Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Ability to work independently within a customer’s environment while collaborating with deepset’s internal teams. ##### Perks * **Remote-first or hybrid** You can choose to work from home or any other workspace that suits you. We offer home office setup (equipment and furniture), and we would be happy to sponsor a coworking spot. * **Grow** Personal and professional growth is important to us. We have an annual learning and development budget, and also the opportunity to speak at conferences, internal knowledge sharing, and workshops. * **Connect** We have a virtual office, a monthly social budget to reconnect virtually or in person, online walks and talks with colleagues from other teams, and a flexible travel policy that enables you to meet colleagues in person for special occasions. * **You are an owner** All employees are enrolled in the employee stock option plan and own a part of the company. * **Personal time off** If you want to recharge and travel the world - there are 30 days of paid vacation. * **Choose your tech** The choice is yours among our pre-selected options, and we will provide what you need. * **Pension fund and Health Insurance fitting with your main working location** All full-time employees are eligible for the pension plan according to the legal guidelines in their location. We also offer health, dental, and vision for employees in the US, in compliance with the local market. * **Travel Insurance** We want you to be secure during your travels. Therefore, we offer every employee additional travel insurance. * **Sports budget** To boost your health and well-being, we offer a monthly allowance for your sports activity. * **Oliva - employee mental wellbeing benefit** To boost your well-being, we offer a benefit that helps you to respond to pivotal moments at work and beyond. * **Dog-friendly** Our main co-working partner Mindspace welcomes dogs, so you can also bring your best friend to the office and our HQ in Berlin also welcomes dogs. * **Enhanced days off for Family Sick Leave** We offer additional days in case your child gets sick. * **Additional days off** We don't work on the 24th & the 31st of December. * **Flexible working hours** You can adapt your work to your private life. ##### What colleagues say “I got to see the challenge of identifying use cases for AI and building and evaluating an LLM-based application first hand in my previous role. As a result, deepset’s mission to empower teams to leverage this transformational technology deeply resonated with me.AI is one of the biggest innovations in technology that we have seen since the Internet. Having a chance to work and learn from a company that is at the heart of the ecosystem and has been accumulating expertise in this space since 2018 was an opportunity that I had to jump on!I am super excited to have joined this incredibly talented team!” (Eliza, Product Manager) "deepset enables me to work with extremely talented and like-minded people on the tech I’m passionate about. It is just outstanding to find such a well-organized and yet creativity-encouraging environment. Seeing everyone is dedicated to the bone to pushing this thrilling technology to its limits puts the cherry on top. Needless to say: I'm proud to be part of deepset!” (Thomas, Senior NLP Engineer) ##### Your application! We appreciate your interest in the deepset GmbH.