Senior AI Engineer, akirolabs
Collaborative strategic procurement platform
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Collaborative strategic procurement platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To become the platform for connecting people with different backgrounds, cultures and languages to change businesses for the better forever through procurement strategies with purpose and sustainable business value.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field
- Bachelor+ degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 3+ years in NLP is a must
- Main direction is agents and agentic orchestration
- Having published scholarly papers is a big plus
What the job involves
- AI feature design & integration into product flows
- Own AI feature requirements jointly with Product
- Translate procurement logic into structured prompts, schemas, etc
- Work closely with other engineering teams
- AI infrastructure & orchestration (proxy, lambdas, streaming)
- Be able to follow existing architecture and design correct approaches for our current system
- Work comfortably with Python services, Fast API, REST APIs, streaming, and deployment constraints
- Collaborate on infra topics without being pure MLOps
- AI quality, evaluation & alignment with business logic (refinement, support, bug fixes, continuous improvements)
- Design and run evaluation pipelines for AI features, including continuous monitoring and quality upgrades
- Implement custom, business‑logic‑driven checks for LLM outputs
- Perform RAG / LLM evaluation (accuracy, consistency, hallucination controls)
- Write and maintain validation logic and guardrail code, not only “prompt tweaks”
- AI governance & EU AI Act compliance
- Work comfortably under EU AI Act constraints and internal governance
- Document model usage, data flows, and risks for each AI feature
- Define guardrails together with Product/Security teams
- Participate in training, documentation, and audits – owning building models and safe/secure AI operations
- Observability, monitoring & production robustness of AI features
- Read and interpret logs/metrics for AI components
- Specify and interpret monitoring for AI flows (latency, error rates, drift signals, usage patterns)
- Understand versioning and backwards compatibility of AI outputs and contracts with other services
- Cross‑team collaboration & stakeholder work
- Communicate clearly with Product, Engineering, Security, and Business teams
- Translate DS/ML decisions into clear Jira tickets and Confluence docs
- Walk customers/CS through AI issues, limitations, and upcoming improvements when needed
- Lead or co‑lead refinements, design reviews, and post‑mortems for AI features
- Research & exploration (models, methods, vendors)
- Research and deliver focused PoCs/MVPs based on product/tech roadmap
- Stay up‑to‑date with LLM / RAG / evaluation research (papers, blogs, open‑source) and translate relevant ideas into shippable solutions
- Justify why a specific model / architecture / vendor is chosen for our procurement use cases
- Maintain a research backlog, prioritise by product impact and feasibility, and document decisions/learnings
- Multi‑agent systems & advanced reasoning (agentic frameworks and tooling):
- Multi‑Agent Systems & Advanced Reasoning – Hands‑on experience with agentic frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) and advanced reasoning techniques (Chain‑of‑Thought, ReAct, Plan‑and‑Execute) to structure complex AI workflows
- Integration & Tool Management – Ability to define safe APIs, connect agents to external systems, and implement memory/state management (short‑term and vector‑based) along with RAG pipelines
- Programming & Infrastructure Expertise – Expert Python skills and deployment experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) with monitoring via tools
- Evaluation, Safety & Ethics – Designing benchmarks to measure agent performance, ensuring reliability and cost‑efficiency, while implementing guardrails to prevent prompt injection and maintain ethical, legal compliance
- Strategic & Soft Skills – Translating business goals into agent workflows, critically evaluating AI outputs for errors or bias, and communicating complex AI reasoning effectively to stakeholders
Our take
In the area of procurement, although digital transformation has certainly evolved operations, there is still much scope for improvement. This has become especially evident of late, when strategic procurement strategies have been needed to address the macroeconomic challenges that businesses are facing.
Akirolabs exists to unlock the value potential of strategic procurement by implementing artificial intelligence to make the process smarter and swifter. Through the platform, users can create, execute, and monitor their intelligent category strategies, visualising and comparing a diverse range of choices informed by rich insights and their overarching strategy.
The company claims that this approach enables clients to "achieve 4-5 times higher value from procurement - beyond savings" - an impressive feat that will no doubt attract many businesses. With its industry-agnostic approach, akirolabs certainly has the potential to shake up the procurement space, and $5 million in seed funding and a grant from the European Regional Development Fund should set it on its way.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$1.2m
GRANT
Jan 2024
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $6.2m
Company benefits
- Work closely with experienced and successful entrepreneurs that support your development through mentoring
- A lot of space for your own ideas with a sparring approach
- Full flexibility in working hours and location
- Collaborative company spirit and open feedback culture
- Employee growth opportunities
Company HQ
Winsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Michael Pleuger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Owner and Managing Director or iMPact Strategic Advisory. Former Senior Partner at Roland Berger and Partner (Management Consulting) at KPMG. Also worked at Vodafone as Senior Manager of Global e-Supply Chain Management.
Detlef Schultz
(Co-Founder, Vision & Customers)Member of the Board at LMS365. Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Vodafone Procurement Company, who also worked as a Senior Advisor for Machavert Pharmaceuticals.
Christoph Flöthmann
(Co-Founder & CPO)A freelance Management Consultant, Christoph has also worked as a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger and as an Assistant Manager for Operations Consulting at KPMG.
Tim Ergenzinger
(Co-Founder & Finance & Operations)Former Senior Consultant at Roland Berger. Spent 8 years at KPMG, ultimately as Manager for Operations Consulting. Prior to this, they completed a chain of internships in areas such as IT Advisory and Supply Chain.
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