Applied AI Engineer (Germany-based)

About BoWatt

• BoWatt is building agentic requirements and system engineering software for manufacturing.
• We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years.
• This will unlock massive value across several complex manufacturing industries.
• Cars. Planes. Rockets. Factories. Chips. Medical devices. All will be engineered with agents.
• We bootstrapped BoWatt to €500k+ ARR before raising our first round.
• BoWatt is backed by tier-1 investors, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo.
• You’ll join a small, exceptional team of startup builders, driven by innovation and execution.
• Over half the team are former founders across DeepTech AI, psychedelics, and gaming.
• We’ve studied and worked at top institutions and companies like Stanford, TUM, Google, EA, and YC-backed AI startups.

The role

Partner with Martin (AI Engineer) on agentic workflows, LLM integrations, and the next generation of AI capabilities at BoWatt.

• Design and implement AI-powered features using existing large language models
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify use cases where AI can improve customer experience
• Building multi-step agent workflows that reason over requirements documents and system specs
• Integrate AI systems with internal data sources, expanding agent knowledge
• Work with the engineering team to deploy AI features into production environments

You

• Have 3+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year working with LLMs
• Have a strong interest in agentic technologies and techniques
• Are experienced with integrating AI capabilities in previous roles, preferably having worked with a variety of AI APIs, tools, and frameworks
• Are comfortable owning your implementations end to end, learning the tools you need for tasks as you go
• Are knowledgeable about security, data privacy, and data hygiene, especially surrounding agent integration
• Thrive in a startup environment with a lot of creative freedom
• Are based in Germany and have the right to work here

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases like Qdrant, Weaviate, pgvector etc
• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex
• Experience in Azure AI Foundry and other Azure products
• Have experience with React or a similar modern web technology (e.g. Vue, Svelte)

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience (€70,000 - €100,000)
• Equity in the company (0.5 - 1%)
• Fully remote, hybrid, or onsite? Up to you.
• Top-tier hardware, as well as any other tools of your choice

Interview process

1. 20min Intro call
2. Tech test (take-home)
3. 90min Technical interview (CTO + Martin)
4. 60min Culture fit interview (CEO + CPO)
5. Offer and reference checks

We aim to complete the interview process within 14 days.