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Senior LLM Engineer — sovereign AI

Aleph Alpha

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At a glance

How you'll work, where, and key listing dates.

Employment: Full-time
Workplace: Hybrid
Location: Karlstraße 9, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany · Hybrid
Compensation: EUR 90k–125k/year + equity
Experience level: Senior
Team: Foundation models
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About this role

What the team is looking for and how this position fits.

Aleph Alpha develops sovereign European foundation models from Heidelberg.

Build training, fine-tuning, and deployment tooling for enterprise LLM customers.

What you will do

Ship production foundation models and LLM ops with offline evals, monitoring, and safe rollout.
Work with product and domain experts on requirements and trade-offs.
Improve data pipelines, labeling, and metrics tied to business KPIs.
Document runbooks for on-call and customer-facing teams.

What we look for

Strong Python and modern ML/LLM stack with shipped features.
SQL, experimentation, and clear communication to stakeholders.
Eligible to work in the listed country; professional English required.

Skills we're hiring for

Core capabilities—LLMs, automation, analytics, product, or domain expertise.

PythonPyTorchLangChain

Tools & stack

Platforms and products mentioned for this role (APIs, IDEs, vector DBs, CRMs, design tools, etc.).

DockerKubernetes

You're a strong fit if…

You've shipped real work with AI—not only experimented in isolation.
Several listed skills or tools show up in your recent projects.
You can explain trade-offs (quality, cost, latency, safety) in plain language.

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What the employer asked for

Fine-tuning, eval, or deployment of large language models.

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