Main purpose of the position
- The Senior AI Engineer is part of KION’s central Big Data & AI team within IT. The position is responsible for designing, developing, and operating secure, scalable, and trustworthy Generative AI applications and reusable platform components in alignment with KION’s AI Strategy and AI Governance
- The role supports the adoption of AI across KION by translating business requirements into production-ready AI solutions, including LLM-powered applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions, AI agents and related APIs and platform services
- The Senior AI Engineer contributes to safe, transparent, and business-value-driven implementation of GenAI use cases across KION
Accountabilities
- Design, develop and operate in-house GenAI applications aligned with KION’s AI Strategy and AI Governance
- Engineer advanced LLM-powered solutions using techniques such as Prompt Engineering, Context Architecture, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Implement build-test-deploy pipelines for AI and agent solutions, ensuring reproducibility and quality
- Ensure security, scalability, performance, observability, and user-facing transparency across all AI services and agents, by integrating hallucination-mitigation, explainability, and traceability mechanisms
- Integrate AI safety mechanisms and guardrails to minimize hallucinations, prevent misuse, and enforce compliance standards
- Research emerging AI technologies and assess their potential for adoption
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-driven automation and reusable solution components across OUs
- Implement cross-organization requirements with a focus on reusability and efficiency
- Take ownership of specific GenAI platform modules and associated use cases
- Monitor and evaluate system and model performance with observability tools, troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvements
- Manage incidents, changes, and user support requests for AI services and platforms
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation and foster knowledge sharing across the organization
Experience
- At least 4-5 years of professional experience as an application developer, ideally in AI/ML or backend service development
- Strong hands-on experience with LLMs (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and modern AI-assisted development workflows
- Expertise in AI application development (e.g., Prompt Engineering, Context Management, and AI search/RAG pipeline design) for enterprise applications
- Proficient in Python, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript; strong experience in client-server communication development (API and MCP)
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for managing cloud resources (GCP/Azure)
- Familiarity with LLMOps/AgentOps tooling, orchestration engines (LangChain/LangGraph, ADK), and vector databases (pgvector)
- Experience building trustworthy AI systems by implementing evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, explainability (traceability, source attribution, reasoning transparency), and AI guardrails
- Experience deploying reliable and scalable AI applications to production environments
- Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, with a strong usability and user-friendly mindset
- Experience monitoring, troubleshooting and continuously improving production AI services
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues
- Creative, hands-on mindset with willingness to experiment and innovate
- Excellent communication skills, experience in an enterprise context is a plus
Qualifications/Specialization
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Specialisation or demonstrable expertise in AI/ML, Generative AI, software engineering, data engineering, and development
- Certification such as GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer or Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) is an advantage
- Very good knowledge of English
Skills Required
- At least 4-5 years of professional experience as an application developer, ideally in AI/ML or backend service development
- Hands-on experience with LLMs including Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini
- Expertise in Prompt Engineering, Context Management, and AI search/RAG pipeline design
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience with client-server communication development, including APIs and MCP
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for GCP or Azure resources
- Familiarity with LLMOps/AgentOps tooling, LangChain/LangGraph, ADK, and vector databases such as pgvector
- Experience implementing trustworthy AI systems, evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, explainability, traceability, source attribution, reasoning transparency, and AI guardrails
- Experience deploying reliable and scalable AI applications to production
- Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions and collaborating with stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuously improving production AI services
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex data issues
- Creative, hands-on mindset with willingness to experiment and innovate
- Excellent communication skills and enterprise experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Specialization or demonstrable expertise in AI/ML, Generative AI, software engineering, data engineering, and development
- Certification such as GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer or Claude Certified Architect - Foundations
- Very good knowledge of English
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
