AI Engineering
AI Engineer (all genders)
Full-time
Akilaris develops AI-enabled space intelligence and collision-avoidance capabilities for safer satellite operations. We are a Bremen-based European team working at the intersection of software, AI, aerospace engineering and operations. We describe the work as it is: priorities can evolve, safety and evidence come before hype, and no contribution is used operationally without the appropriate review.
AI Engineering at Akilaris is not prompt-only work and it is not a promise of unchecked autonomy. You help turn space-safety problems into testable systems, choosing between statistical learning, optimisation, domain models and foundation models based on evidence, risk and operational value.
Your Mission
- Frame AI and decision-support problems with domain experts, including measurable success and failure criteria
- Build maintainable data, model and service components with tests, versioning and traceability
- Create evaluation suites, baselines, regression tests and failure analyses before advocating deployment
- Assess model quality, uncertainty, latency, cost, security and human-oversight needs
- Operate and improve approved services with monitoring, incident learning and documented rollback paths
- Communicate limitations clearly to engineering, product and operational stakeholders
What You Bring
- Evidence of building and maintaining ML or AI-enabled software beyond a notebook prototype; a relevant degree or equivalent practical experience
- Strong Python and sound software-engineering practice, including testing, code review and reproducible delivery
- Experience designing evaluations and interpreting failure modes, not only optimising a headline metric
- Good judgement about when a simpler deterministic or statistical approach is preferable to a foundation model
Helpful, Not Required
- Production ML, MLOps, observability, data quality or model-governance experience
- Probabilistic modelling, uncertainty quantification, optimisation or simulation
- LLM or agent systems with structured outputs, tool use, security controls and evaluation
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, safety-critical or regulated engineering
Practical Details
- The role is based in Germany. You must be entitled to work in Germany by the agreed start date; any support with permits or relocation is assessed individually and is not guaranteed.
- Some project assignments may be subject to German or EU export-control and security requirements. Any restriction relevant to this role is assessed case by case and explained transparently; we do not apply a blanket nationality requirement.
What to Expect
- Purposeful work on safer and more sustainable satellite operations
- A small, cross-functional European team with short feedback loops and direct access to the context needed for your work
- Responsibility matched to experience, with review and support rather than unverified autonomy
- The role-specific work model stated in this posting; student schedules are planned around agreed university commitments
- Candid feedback, room to learn across disciplines and respect for well-reasoned disagreement
Our Hiring Process
The exact process depends on the role and is explained at the start. It typically includes:
- a structured first review against the published core criteria,
- a role-related conversation and, where useful, a short time-boxed work sample — never unpaid customer or production work,
- a mutual alignment discussion covering mission, collaboration, work model and terms.
Pay Transparency
We discuss the specific pay and objective criteria transparently before making an offer. Where the law requires earlier or additional information, we follow those requirements. We do not ask about salary history.
How to Apply
Email your CV or current profile and three to five sentences about your role-related contribution to info@akilaris.com with the subject line “Application: AI Engineer (all genders)”. For technical or creative roles, you may link one relevant work sample.
Please do not send a photo, date of birth, marital status, salary history, nationality, health information or unrelated certificates. We do not need them for the first review.
We assess applications fairly and without discrimination, based on the role requirements and each person’s potential. We discuss reasonable adjustments to the application process confidentially.
Applicant Data Notice
We process only the data you send for assessing your application and communicating during the hiring process. The controller is Akilaris UG (haftungsbeschränkt), c/o Clockwise, Martinistraße 62–66, 28195 Bremen, info@akilaris.com. The legal bases are section 26 BDSG and Article 6(1)(b) GDPR; where data is retained temporarily for legal defence, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR applies.
After an unsuccessful process, we generally delete application data after six months unless a legal duty or your explicit consent permits longer storage. Access is limited to people and instructed service providers who need it for the process.
Your rights include access, rectification, erasure, restriction and complaint to a data-protection authority. More information is available in our privacy policy.
Location
Bremen, Germany, Hybrid, with regular time in Bremen.