As the Head (m/f/x) of Agentic AI you operate at the intersection of latest AI innovations and implementation and you define the Agentic AI roadmap within appliedAI and with our partners applying your expertise in Agentic AI, LLMs, SLMs and other Deep Learning approaches to create real value with and for our partners. You are passionate about transforming AI advancements into real-world solutions that drive business innovation across industries, leading a high-performing team of experts to realize that mission with you.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with appliedAI partners and new corporate clients to understand their challenges in implementing and scaling AI solutions. You will help translate technological capabilities into concrete business value across diverse corporate environments.
As part of the AI Engineering group at appliedAI, you will collaborate with our internal AI experts, AI strategists, and external partners to create high-impact prototypes and production-ready AI solutions that enable innovation and business transformation. With your deep expertise in Data and AI—particularly in the areas of large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI—you will serve as a recognized technology expert both within appliedAI, our customers and partners.

• You define the Agentic AI Agenda of appliedAI together with our partners and internal teams
• You focus on strategically applying Generative AI and multi-agent systems to solve complex business challenges, accelerating AI adoption across industries
• Responsibility for designing and implementing GenAI solutions, in particular agentic workflows, agentic search and multi-agent systems, tailored to specific customer needs
• Lead and develop a high-performing AI team, including mentoring, performance management, hiring, and capacity planning
• Drive strategic alignment and cross-functional collaboration, representing the team in leadership forums and ensuring successful execution of multiple projects
• Maintaining the highest engineering standards, you contribute to collaborative technology development within appliedAI and across the appliedAI Partner ecosystem
• Taking a leading role in translating novel methods and techniques of AI research/innovation into robust and scalable AI systems to drive customer value

• Excellent expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI techniques with a solid academic background in Data Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Physics, or similar
• More than 10 years of professional background in implementing AI solutions, AI engineering or a related field, with proven references of implementation and scaling of AI products and solutions in corporate environments
• Ability and interest to holistically think about the impact of technology and Agentic AI in particular
• Experience in designing and implementing agentic systems using current Agent frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen,or crewAI
• Proven experience in leading and managing expert teams, ideally in a disciplinary leadership capacity, with the ability to create a vision and inspire others to follow and contribute to it
• Strong people management skills, including coaching, and team development as well as balanced resource planning
• Solid understanding of most relevant deep neural networks such as transformers, stable diffusion and embedding architectures
• Proven expertise in DevOps and MLOps frameworks and best practices, with a strong understanding of the specific requirements and advancements related to operationalizing LLM-based applications and agentic systems (AgentOps)
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and external partners
• Passion for continuous learning, innovation, and contributing to high-performing teams
• Fluent English is required; German proficiency is a plus

A highly qualified and motivated team of ~80 people on a journey to change the rapidly evolving European AI Landscape.

Flexibility to choose / switch between our amazing office space in the House of Communication in Munich, IPAI in Heilbronn and work from home options.

• Opportunity to shape a variety of projects and the development of new, original content based on the latest developments in AI and its adoption in businesses
• An atmosphere that encourages to think and experiment in new ways with software, hardware, and processes
• Hottest topics of the next decade and freedom and trust to initiate own activities
• A highly visible initiative that helps you build a large and high-level network of start-ups, partners, and tech companies
• Sports membership with Wellpass to access thousands of sports facilities all over Germany (and beyond)
• JobRad leasing option
• You can take a sabbatical of up to 3 months after 3 years of employment - because sometimes 30 vacation days are not enough to explore the beauty of this world.

Lucas Fernandes - Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
appliedAI Initiative GmbH, August-Everding-Str. 25, 81671 München