Senior AI R&D Engineer – Model Training (f/m/d)
Aleph Alpha · Heidelberg · Berlin
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build and improve the training pipeline behind the Kolibri-1 foundation model.
- Optimize cluster scheduling to make model training more robust and performant.
- Enable large-scale code execution for reinforcement learning and evals.
What they offer
- 30 days of paid vacation
- Fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub
- Mental health support through nilo.health
- Substantially subsidized company pension plan
- Subsidized Germany-wide transportation ticket
- Budget for additional technical equipment
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working model
- JobRad Bike Lease
Ideal candidate
A software-minded AI engineer who thrives in collaborative, fast-moving research teams and cares about clean, maintainable code. You take ownership, unblock others, and enjoy shaping tooling that accelerates model experimentation.
Requirements
- Dive into codebase and leave code better tested and easier to understand
- Design for low coupling and high cohesion with incremental refactoring
- Experience with TDD, trunk-based development and continuous integration
- Familiarity with Domain Driven Design
- remote policy
- Hybrid, on-site at least two days per week
Lab profile
About Aleph Alpha
Delivers sovereign, human-centric foundation models and GenAI for governments and large enterprises
What they build
- Sovereign foundation models
- Enterprise GenAI platform
Known for
- Sovereign AI focus
- Human-centric trustworthy deployment
- Government and enterprise applications
Key facts
- Founded in 2019
- Headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany
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