Senior Systems Engineer, Aleph Alpha

Salary not provided

+ Virtual Stock Option Plan

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

2-3 days a week in office

AI-powered research & application company

Job no longer available

AI-powered research & application company

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

+ Virtual Stock Option Plan

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Rust

Senior and Expert level

Berlin

2-3 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To research and build the foundational technology for an era of strong AI.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Proven experience in setting up and maintaining Kubernetes clusters
Automation & CI/CD: Expertise with automation tools like Helm, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, and JFrog
Strong knowledge of at least one language in our stack: Python, Rust, or Go
Familiarity with security and reliability best practices for infrastructure
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in code reviews and pair programming sessions
Experience working in fast-paced startup environments is an advantage

What the job involves

As we continue to enhance our AI stack and leverage advanced technologies like Kubernetes (K8s) and Helm charts, your role will be critical in helping us maintain, scale, and develop new features for our systems
Your work will enable us to meet the demands of an evolving infrastructure, provide support to internal teams, and ensure that our customers can successfully deploy our solutions on their premises
Develop, maintain, and enhance the Pharia AI stack and the tooling needed to support it
Assist and support teams with writing Helm charts and deploying their artifacts
Set up and maintain Kubernetes clusters with high availability on StackIT or similar cloud platforms
Provide assistance to customers for the installation and maintenance of our products on their infrastructure
Represent the product team in audits and respond to security questionnaires
Occasionally take on a tech lead role within the infrastructure team, offering guidance through pair programming and code reviews

Our take

AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Aleph Alpha is a company that researches, develops and “operationalises'' large AI systems toward generalisable AI. The company offers an autoregressive language model using deep learning to produce human-like text, vision and strategy AI models.

Germany-based Aleph Alpha was the first European company to pursue this kind of work in AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. The company works with businesses to use its technology and filter it into a wide range of creative uses.

An infusion of capital in 2023 fuelled the company's pursuit of groundbreaking research and advanced product development, supporting innovation and growth. With a focus on expanding academic partnerships and enhancing reproducibility, Aleph Alpha remains committed to its mission of driving technological progress.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

26% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.2)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Nov 2023

$125m

SERIES B

Nov 2023

$375m

GRANT

Total funding: $650.1m

Company benefits

30 Days of paid vacation
Flexible working hours
Join a dynamic start-up and a rapidly growing team
Work with international industry and science experts
Take on responsibility and shape our company and technology
Regular team events

Company HQ

Bahnstadt, Heidelberg, Germany

Leadership

Reto Spörri

(Co-CEO)

Digital professional with a proven track record in building, scaling and managing sustainable and successful businesses. Has worked at Lidl e-commerce as CEO, and Schwarz Digits as Managing Director.

Ilhan Scheer

(Co-CEO)

Joined the company in 2025 as Chief Growth Officer, becoming Co-CEO in 2026. Has worked at Accenture as Global Lead of Products, and founded and was CEO at fable+.

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