Principal AI Engineer, Kittl
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3 days a week in office
At Kittl, you’ll build the new Adobe of tomorrow.
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At Kittl, you’ll build the new Adobe of tomorrow.
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
We are shaping the way designers create by redefining graphic design.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Gen AI & deep learning: At least 5 years of demonstrated success in deploying and optimizing deep learning models in production, with at least 1-2 years of focus on diffusion models
- Leadership: At least 2 years in a leadership role guiding teams and defining AI strategy
- Infrastructure & scalability expertise: Strong knowledge of AI infrastructure, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and model optimization techniques for efficient deployment
- Strategic & leadership skills: Ability to define and execute an AI strategy, aligning technical roadmaps with business goals while guiding cross-functional teams
- Hands-on technical skills: Proficiency in Python, Pytorch, Diffusers, and distributed computing frameworks
- Strong communication & collaboration: Ability to convey complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, driving alignment and adoption across teams
- Continuous learning & adaptability: Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI, ensuring Kittl remains at the forefront of innovation in a rapidly evolving field
What the job involves
- As a Principal AI Engineer at Kittl, you will lead the AI Platform team, driving AI initiatives across the company and ensuring seamless integration of state of the art models into our product ecosystem
- Your work will directly influence the development of transformative features, optimizing workflows, and scaling AI-powered capabilities, specifically for graphic design
- You will collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to align AI advancements with strategic goals while maintaining and evolving the internal AI infrastructure. You will report to the CTO
- Lead AI infrastructure development: Architect, maintain, and evolve the internal AI inference infrastructure to support scalable and efficient model deployment
- Drive AI strategy & roadmap: Develop and execute the technical roadmap for AI at Kittl, aligning it with business objectives while identifying opportunities for AI-driven innovation across the company. Establish best practices, ethical guidelines, and governance frameworks to ensure responsible AI adoption and a sustainable, long-term AI strategy
- Enable cross-team AI adoption: Establish processes and best practices to help product managers and engineers uncover AI opportunities, fostering AI-driven decision-making across teams
- Optimize AI performance & efficiency: Ensure robust, scalable, and cost-effective AI inference by optimizing model deployment, resource allocation, and infrastructure scalability
- Bridge product & business needs: Work closely with product and business teams to translate high-level goals into actionable AI solutions, ensuring AI initiatives deliver measurable impact
Application process
- Recruiter interview (30 min)
- Hiring manager interview (45 min)
- Technical take home assignment
- Take home assignment discussion (60 min)
- Gen AI system design interview (30 min)
- Engineering leadership interview with CTO (30 min)
- Product Manager & Chief of Staff bar raiser interview (45 min)
Our take
In order to meet their branding and marketing needs, businesses can either hire graphic designers at a cost to their budget or rely upon free templates they can edit to their uses. However, whilst these templates have allowed many lower-budget businesses to create a digital image, it has also made it difficult for them to appear unique online. Kittl supplies a design platform for companies to create effective and individual graphics online, easily, and without the need for design expertise.
Kittl was founded in 2020 to combat the “cookie cutter” digital image landscape brought about by the rise in templates. Its platform allows clients to make detailed and unique logos without design training; with tools including text shading and text decoration, libraries of images and ornaments, and much more. On top of this, the company provides tutorials and inspiration for customers to make the most of what it provides.
Early Kittl clients include the likes of Warner Bros, Netflix, and German publisher Hubert Burda Media. The company has secured significant funding, the latest of which is cited to help grow its team and develop better tools for its users to unlock their creativity, as it further establishes itself and attracts new customers.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$36m
SERIES B
Jan 2023
$11.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.6m
Company benefits
- Maximise your impact: No matter if you’re leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact
- Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing
- Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun
- Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am–5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style
- Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours
- Learning & development: Our L&D budget supports your professional growth
- Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year
- Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket (Germany only)
- Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount (Germany only)
Company values
- Thoughtful communication: We meet when it matters and communicate clearly so everyone has space to do their best work
- Disagree and Commit: We challenge decisions when we disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. We argue and debate in pursuit of the best answers, yet, on the other hand, unify fully behind a decision, regardless of any parochial interests
- Striving for excellence: Once committed, we drive a product, service, or process to ultimate perfection - we focus on the tiniest relevant details, which set us apart
- Ownership: As an owner you take ownership of outcomes and drive decisions that lead to those outcomes. Outcome is user value (value creation), and not just a feature, or a plain deliverable
- Bias for Action: Velocity matters like nothing else - it is ultimately our only advantage, since today everything can be rebuild
- Never settle: We are passionate about our work - which means on our way we never settle, always aiming for results that impress everyone. We think big and create and communicate a bold direction that inspire our results
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Leadership
Nicolas Heymann
(CEO)Previously founded Rawster Foods and Fitkit.
Tobias Saul
(CPO)Experienced designer.
People progressing
Partnerships Lead @Kittl
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kittl
Lisa Hsieh (Senior Recruiter)
- At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!
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