Top Artificial Intelligence Jobs in Cologne

Leads research and advisory work for CIOs on data, analytics, and AI strategy, governance, operating models, architecture, value realization, and emerging technologies. Develops thought leadership, market analysis, presentations, and actionable client guidance; evaluates agentic and composite AI, modern data platforms, AI-ready data, organizational maturity, and capability-building needs. Represents Gartner at client meetings and conferences, supports sales, mentors colleagues, and shapes research agendas.

The Principal Engineer will lead the design and delivery of core platform capabilities, focusing on scalable systems, AI application, and mentoring engineers while driving architectural decisions and improving operational systems.

Leads global FP&A activities, including financial analysis, annual and long-term planning, forecasting, management reporting, investment evaluation, and performance reviews. Drives standardized planning processes, finance digitalization, AI adoption, data-quality improvements, cost-saving initiatives, and profitability improvements. Partners with senior stakeholders and global business lines, communicates financial insights, and supports training and knowledge sharing across Finance.

Designs and delivers secure, scalable AI-powered solutions on Google Cloud. Translates business objectives into technical architectures, prototypes AI and multi-agent systems, integrates solutions with enterprise applications, evaluates AI technologies, and establishes engineering standards. The role collaborates across business, architecture, data science, AI engineering, and development teams while coaching teams on Google Cloud AI services and modern operational practices.

Lead embedded AI development for autonomous-driving systems, including prototyping, benchmarking, real-time optimization, hardware and AI SoC selection, and tool development. Collaborate with algorithm and system engineers to implement deep-learning solutions on DSPs, accelerators, FPGAs, and AI processors. Apply quantization, fixed-point techniques, compiler methods, and memory optimization. Provide technical leadership and mentoring while evaluating alternative implementations for improved runtime performance.

Leads GEA’s global AI-powered sales transformation, owning the vision, roadmap, business case, and rollout of an AI-powered Sales Assistant. The role identifies and prioritizes sales AI use cases, builds organizational capabilities, manages cross-functional stakeholders, drives global adoption and change, and establishes KPIs to measure business impact.

Owns post-deployment value realization, adoption, and expansion for strategic Private Cloud AI customers across Central Europe. Provides enterprise AI architecture guidance, leads roadmap and adoption reviews, identifies expansion opportunities, facilitates technical and executive workshops, and builds reusable global playbooks. The role combines deep AI and GenAI expertise with customer-facing technical sales, commercial judgment, account management, and frequent onsite travel.

Owns marketing strategy for a strategic technology alliance in Europe, including positioning, messaging, go-to-market planning, integrated B2B campaigns, partner ecosystem enablement, executive communications, and KPI reporting. The role coordinates cross-functional teams across partner, field, product, brand, communications, PR, digital, content, and events. It focuses initially on Germany and supports cybersecurity, AI-native, sovereign cloud, and regulated-industry propositions across Europe.

Owns full-cycle recruiting for commercial, operational, and technical roles across global markets. Responsibilities include sourcing passive candidates, building pipelines for hard-to-fill positions, advising hiring leaders, coordinating interviews and offers, maintaining accurate Greenhouse data, and improving hiring processes through systems thinking, data, AI, and automation.

Own the vision, roadmap, architecture, and hands-on delivery of IFS’s Internal Developer Platform. Build developer portals, service catalogs, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integrations, authentication, and observability workflows. Operate production Kubernetes environments, drive enterprise adoption through developer feedback and metrics, and improve deployment speed and platform experience. Partner with infrastructure, IAM, SRE, and product teams while influencing platform strategy and mentoring senior engineers without direct management responsibility.

Conduct research, market sizing, forecasting, competitive analysis, and thought leadership on enterprise AI services. Develop actionable insights for technology providers and senior executives through published research, presentations, conferences, and client engagements. Assess market trends, demand drivers, customer behavior, and growth opportunities while advising clients, supporting sales, reviewing content, mentoring analysts, and improving research processes.

Manage influencer campaigns end to end across multiple brands and markets. Responsibilities include creator casting, briefing, negotiation, contracting, campaign timelines, budgets, approvals, client communications, performance tracking, reporting, and optimization. The role requires using CPV and campaign KPIs to manage commercial outcomes, ensuring content meets brand and compliance requirements, and operating as a power user of Kyra’s platform and AI tools.

Own and deliver product features across trading, investing, crypto, accounts, and payments. Responsibilities include prioritizing features, interpreting regulations and API documentation, writing detailed specifications, coordinating with Engineering, Design, Legal, Compliance, and Operations, leading testing and launches, and monitoring performance after release. Candidates must have shipped products or features, understand technical systems and data flows, query and explain product data, and regularly use AI in product work.

Leads Gartner Consulting engagements and executive relationships across DACH public sector organizations. Advises senior leaders on technology strategy, digital transformation, cloud, data and AI, cybersecurity, sourcing, cost optimization, and legacy modernization. Owns and expands a strategic client portfolio, drives revenue growth, develops new opportunities, and leads high-performing consulting teams. Requires executive-level relationship building, consulting delivery and sales experience, technology problem-solving expertise, native German fluency, and established public sector relationships.

Enterprise Account Executive responsible for acquiring new enterprise customers, exceeding ARR quotas, leading sophisticated outbound campaigns, navigating multi-stakeholder buying committees, and closing complex SaaS deals. The role engages HR, Communications, IT, and executive stakeholders, develops strategic business cases, and collaborates with SDRs, Partnerships, Marketing, Solution Engineering, Customer Success, and Product teams. Candidates need enterprise SaaS sales experience, strategic selling expertise, fluent German and English, and a strong hunter mentality.

Develop AI-driven products through hands-on software development and product engineering. Build minimum viable products, solve problems creatively, and help shape future AI applications. The role is available remotely or in Boston and Chicago, with contract options ranging from two weeks to three months or full-time, plus potential revenue sharing.

Own the DACH and Nordics enterprise sales territory, managing the full B2B SaaS sales cycle from pipeline generation through closing and account expansion. Build a $1M+ new-business ARR territory, maintain 4.5x pipeline coverage, exceed quota, develop executive relationships, and open enterprise segments across airlines, gaming, travel, and telecommunications. Collaborate with SDRs, marketing, partnerships, product, and customer solutions teams while delivering accurate forecasts. The role requires approximately 30% regional client travel and occasional London team visits.

Leads QA automation strategy across web, API, and backend services. Designs and maintains automated test frameworks, integrates testing into CI/CD pipelines, investigates defects, maintains test environments, and promotes quality practices. Mentors junior engineers and collaborates with product and engineering teams on acceptance criteria and release quality. Applies AI-assisted tools for test generation, debugging, defect analysis, and automation optimization.

Own the Vault product roadmap and lifecycle for a sports media asset platform. Lead discovery with customers, define solutions for content ingest, storage, integrations, AI enrichment, metadata, search, rights, and asset monetization. Partner closely with engineering, sales, and customer success, attend customer events, and prioritize product bets that help sports organizations maximize the value of extensive media archives.

Own the full sales cycle for Slack across a high-velocity mid-market account portfolio. Responsibilities include pipeline generation, prospecting, discovery, AI-focused product demonstrations, business-case development, forecasting, negotiation, and closing. The role partners with Salesforce account executives, solution engineers, customer success teams, and partners to drive new-logo and expansion opportunities, demonstrate ROI, and build long-term customer relationships.

Guide prospective customers through Camunda evaluations by mapping requirements to solutions, demonstrating product value, conducting technical Q&A, and developing evaluation plans. Partner with Account Executives and Solution Architects to qualify opportunities, execute presales engagements, support RFI/RFP responses, create technical content, implement code snippets, and drive product wins through consultative selling.

Build and deploy production machine learning systems for classification, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and evaluation. Develop efficient models and pipelines, improve search relevance and personalization, fine-tune existing models, monitor production performance, debug issues, and ship measurable quality improvements while balancing accuracy, latency, cost, privacy, and reliability.

Lead AI adoption and stabilization for enterprise contact center customers across global regions. Optimize conversational AI through prompt engineering, knowledge alignment, workflow tuning, and behavioral UAT. Analyze usage patterns, contact center KPIs, and operational data to identify risks and improve AI ROI. Build adoption scorecards, lead remote working sessions, coordinate regional consultants, and translate insights into recommendations that drive sustained usage, trust, and measurable business outcomes.

Lead technical architecture for generative AI and LLM solutions serving digital-native customers across EMEA. Responsibilities include designing RAG and agentic systems, building Databricks-based proofs of concept, fine-tuning open models, developing evaluation and safety approaches, and operationalizing large-scale ML workloads. The role also mentors field engineering teams, influences product roadmaps, supports strategic customer engagements, and represents Databricks through workshops, conferences, blogs, and executive briefings.

Own and expand a strategic EMEA partnership, driving joint business planning, pipeline creation, revenue growth, executive alignment, go-to-market execution, partner enablement, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires managing complex enterprise software alliances, influencing internal and partner teams, developing joint solutions and campaigns, and delivering measurable commercial outcomes across regional markets.