Senior AI Engineer (Berlin, hybrid)

We’re in an exciting growth phase following our Series B funding and are expanding our team. Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we’re also growing London as our second location, with a new office planned for 2025.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow.

• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch

• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries

• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering driven working culture

• Strong funding: Raised over $45M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll lead the AI Platform team at Kittl, playing a key role in driving AI initiatives across the company. You’ll shape and evolve the internal AI infrastructure while ensuring the seamless integration of cutting-edge models into our product ecosystem. Your work will help unlock transformative user-facing features, optimize internal workflows, and scale AI-powered capabilities in the context of graphic design. This role collaborates closely with product and business teams and reports to the CTO.

What you’ll do 

• Build and scale AI infrastructure: Design, maintain, and improve Kittl’s AI inference infrastructure to support scalable and efficient model deployment

• Define AI strategy and roadmap: Lead the development and execution of Kittl’s AI roadmap, aligning it with company objectives. Champion best practices, responsible AI principles, and sustainable long-term strategy

• Enable AI adoption across teams: Create processes and frameworks that help product and engineering teams identify opportunities for AI integration and experimentation

• Optimize AI performance & efficiency: Improve the reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of AI systems, including model deployment and infrastructure optimization

• Translate strategic needs into technical solutions: Work with cross-functional partners to ensure AI initiatives deliver real-world, measurable impact across the product

What you’ll need

• Applied AI and deep learning experience: At least 5 years working with deep learning models in production environments, including 1–2 years focused on image generation and diffusion models

• Leadership: At least 2 years in a leadership role guiding teams and defining AI strategy

• Infrastructure & scaling know-how: Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), AI model optimization, and distributed systems for deploying and managing large-scale inference systems

• Strategic thinking & cross-functional leadership: Ability to define a technical roadmap that aligns with product and business goals, and guide teams toward delivering high-impact solutions

• Hands-on technical depth: Strong experience with Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace Diffusers, and distributed computing frameworks

• Clear & collaborative communication: Capable of explaining complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, and building alignment across diverse stakeholders

• Adaptability & learning mindset: Enthusiastic about staying current with AI trends and applying new developments to real-world challenges

Interview 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)

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo

• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done

• Who goes above and beyond in their role

• Who is deeply passionate about what they do

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 

• Mobility benefit: We fully cover your monthly BVG public transport ticket

• Health and fitness: Urban Sports Club membership discount

• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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🌈 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!