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LLM Application Engineer

Other • Mid-level • Remote • Full-time Germany Germany

At A1, the LLM Application Engineer builds the intelligence layer powering AI experiences - designing agent workflows, improving model behavior, and turning AI capabilities into reliable user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship LLM-powered applications and AI agent workflows
  • Design systems for reasoning, planning, memory, tool use and multi-step execution
  • Build reliable orchestration pipelines turning probabilistic model outputs into predictable, observable, safe actions
  • Integrate LLMs with APIs, databases, search, internal services and external tools
  • Develop prompting, context engineering, structured outputs and tool-calling techniques
  • Build evaluation frameworks and datasets to measure AI quality, reliability and regressions
  • Debug AI systems across the entire stack, from model behavior to orchestration and product UX
  • Optimize AI systems for quality, latency and cost
  • Work closely with product and engineering teams
  • Establish production practices for observability, tracing, experimentation and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals building AI-powered applications
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, generative AI, or agent-based systems
  • Experience designing prompts, workflows, evaluations or AI behavior
  • Ability to write clean, production-quality code
  • Comfortable working across abstraction layers (model → system → product)
  • Strong problem-solving skills in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Bias toward shipping, iteration and continuous improvement

Nice to have

  • Experience with Python, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, vector databases, PyTorch/JAX

Soft skills

Problem-solving in ambiguityFast iteration

About the company

A1's mission is to build a proactive smart assistant for everyday users, bringing intelligence to conversations, errands, organizing and workflows with minimal prompting, focused on high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context and real-world task completion.

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