Teams at Atlantic and FoodLabs

Lead the technical direction and development of an AI efficiency engine that combines model routing, fine-tuning, caching, quantization, and inference optimization to reduce costs while maintaining quality. Design rigorous benchmarks, guide founding engineers, advance agentic engineering workflows, and collaborate with the founder on product strategy, hiring, and company building.

Leads sovereign space and defense business development for IBEX, building relationships with German ministries, agencies, Bundeswehr commands, NATO/EU programs, and prime contractors. Owns the full government sales cycle from mission shaping and requirements development through tenders, MoUs, pilots, and contract signatures. Represents customer needs to engineering while coordinating export-control and classified-information compliance. Requires substantial government contracting experience, German defense access, procurement expertise, technical space knowledge, and fluent German and English.

Build and operate the company’s AI platform, including model gateways, routing, cost optimization, usage and billing systems, agent infrastructure, tenant isolation, secrets management, European cloud infrastructure, GPU model serving, observability, testing, and safe production releases. The role requires close collaboration with the founding team, ownership from design through operation, and practical involvement with LLMs, embeddings, evaluations, fine-tuning, and agentic engineering workflows.