Senior AI/ML Engineer (m/f/d)

Essen, remote

Full-time

Permanent employee

Your mission

Most AI lives in a chat window. Ours will run physical infrastructure across a pan-European network. As a Senior AI/ML Engineer in our newly established AI UNIT within E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI), a special unit built and run like a startup, you will be at the forefront of designing, building, and scaling AI systems that deliver real business impact. Working across the entire AI lifecycle, you will take solutions from experimentation to production and own them there, while helping define the technical foundation of our AI UNIT. You report to our Head of AI Strategy.

Your Responsibilities

Shape the AI/ML architecture, technology stack, and engineering standards of the unit
Design, build, and operate production-grade AI and machine learning systems and own their reliability, quality, latency, and cost
Develop classical ML and GenAI solutions, including RAG, agentic systems, and AI-powered services
Productionize ML models developed by our Data Scientists and operate them at scale
Define and enhance MLOps and LLMOps practices for deployment, versioning, monitoring, evaluation, and retraining
Own our LLM gateway, including model routing, token limits, cost per use case, guardrails, and logging
Build scalable AI services and APIs for our Full-Stack and AI Deployment Engineers
Evaluate emerging AI models, AI tooling, and agentic systems and integrate impactful innovations into our stack
Share knowledge and support the growth of junior colleagues – this is a senior individual contributor role

Your profile

You are an experienced AI engineer who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on expertise in modern machine learning and Generative AI. You enjoy solving complex problems, taking ownership, and turning ideas into production-ready solutions.

Must have

Proven experience owning AI/ML solutions in production end to end, with measurable impact
Strong software engineering skills in Python, including testing, CI/CD, and clean architecture
Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, model evaluation, and experimentation
Production experience with Generative AI, including prompting, RAG, agents, and evaluation frameworks
Experience with MLOps and model deployment workflows in Azure – AWS or GCP experience transfers
Strong understanding of trade-offs between accuracy, latency, scalability, cost, and risk
Ability to translate complex business and technical challenges into practical solutions
Curious, pragmatic, and passionate about applying the latest AI technologies to real-world problems
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams

Nice to have

Fine-tuning, post-training, or inference optimization
Optimization or operations research
Experience with physical infrastructure, energy, mobility, or other asset-heavy industries
Open-source contributions or public work – side projects count [neu]

We hire for spikes, not for resumes. Don't tick every box? Apply anyway and show us what you have built.

Why us?

People take centre stage: Become part of a dynamic, ambitious and agile team that develops solutions for the eMobility market and be part of our EDRI events
With us, you get the best of both worlds - 100% start-up with the support of a large company
The freedom you need: We offer you hybrid working with flexible working hours 
Workation: Enjoy the flexibility to work temporarily from abroad – within the EU
You will receive a competitive salary
A company pension scheme is of course also one of the benefits with us
Sustainable learning opportunities: We support you with a training budget of 5,000 euros per year
You get everything you need to get started: onboarding with welcome gifts and all the hardware you need

Contact

Diversity counts at E.ON. We welcome all people and are convinced that differences make us stronger. Become part of our inclusive and diverse corporate culture!
 
Seize the opportunity to become part of our E.ON Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of E.ON, but also for your own. 
 
We look forward to getting to know you!
 
Laura
Junior Recruiter
 
Do you have any questions or difficulties with your application? Please contact me at laura.ackermann@edri.com.

About us

E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI) is a pan-European market leading charge point operator owned by the E.ON group. EDRI builds, owns, and operates public charging infrastructure for all types of electric vehicles. The company purpose is to build a sustainable world, by providing charging for everyone, everywhere. The team currently employs more than 200 people and operates more than 9.000 public charging points across 11 European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Together with location partners EDRI will expand its network by installing 1,000 additional high power charging points per year.