KOSTAL Group is a globally active, family-owned German company renowned for delivering innovative, market-leading solutions in the solar and automotive industries. Founded in 1912, the company has grown into a worldwide organization with around 20,000 employees across 47 locations in 22 countries.
As part of its continued expansion, KOSTAL established KOSTAL Business Services (KBS) in 2022, marking the launch of its first Business Service Centre in Hungary. This hub provides high-level support across key functions including IT, finance, procurement, master data, sales, and human resources.
Designed as a global centre of excellence, KBS focuses on delivering complex, high value-added services that strengthen and support KOSTAL’s international operations.
Job DescriptionAs part of a global AI initiative, we are establishing a dedicated enterprise AI team and platform to design, implement, and operate AI use cases across the organization.
Working closely with business stakeholders and enterprise application and data owners, the AI Solution Engineer translates AI opportunities into concrete solution designs and implemented use cases, contributing hands-on where required. In close collaboration with the AI Architect, this role ensures that AI solutions are aligned with architectural standards and integrated into the enterprise landscape in a structured and scalable way.
Responsibilities
- Translate AI opportunities into executable technical solution designs
- Define integration approaches together with IT and business application/data owners
- Implement AI use cases using enterprise AI services and LLM APIs
- Contribute hands-on to prototyping, integration logic, and critical solution components where required
- Support AI patterns such as retrieval-based solutions where required
- Coordinate implementation activities across business stakeholders, internal and external teams or delivery partners
- Ensure solutions align with architectural standards and enterprise system landscapes
Requirements
- 3–5 years in solution engineering, backend development, or technical implementation roles
- Experience working in enterprise IT environments
- Experience collaborating across business and IT domains
- Experience integrating AI/LLM APIs
- Strong understanding of API-based architectures
- Programming skills (e.g., Python or similar)
- Cloud experience (preferably Azure)
- Experience with AI application or orchestration platforms (e.g., Dify or comparable) is a plus
- Structured and solution-oriented mindset
- Strong ownership and execution focus
- Ability to quickly understand business processes
- Clear communication with technical and business stakeholders
- Ability to coordinate internal and external implementation partners
What do we offer :
- Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance
- Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
- Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
- Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
- KOSTAL is a dynamically developing company, an independent, family-run business which provides much flexibility
- You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative
Skills Required
- 3-5 years in solution engineering, backend development, or technical implementation roles
- Experience working in enterprise IT environments
- Experience collaborating across business and IT domains
- Experience integrating AI/LLM APIs
- Strong understanding of API-based architectures
- Programming skills (e.g., Python or similar)
- Cloud experience (preferably Azure)
- Experience with AI application or orchestration platforms (e.g., Dify or comparable)
- Structured and solution-oriented mindset
- Strong ownership and execution focus
- Ability to quickly understand business processes
- Clear communication with technical and business stakeholders
- Ability to coordinate internal and external implementation partners
What We Do
KOSTAL Group is a global, independent, family-owned company based in Germany that develops and manufactures technologically complex electronic and mechatronic products.
