Senior AI Engineer - Industrial Foundation Models | Senior AI Engineer - Industrial Foundation Models (f/m/x)

BMW AG

München, Bayern, Deutschland
Published Nov 21, 2025
Full-time
Permanent

Job Summary

This Senior AI Engineer role focuses on shaping the future of domain-specific AI systems within the BMW Group, specifically by designing, training, and operating new foundation models for engineering and production environments. The successful candidate will own the strategy and roadmap for these industrial foundation models, aligning closely with production leaders. Day-to-day tasks include building and adapting large language, reasoning, and multimodal models for automation at scale, architecting end-to-end AI systems with robust APIs, security, and observability, and defining standards for performance, safety, and compliance, including leading red teaming efforts. This position requires deep expertise in LLMs and multimodal models, strong programming skills, and a proven track record of deploying complex ML systems into enterprise production environments, making it a critical role in advancing automotive innovation through code.

Required Skills

Education

PhD or outstanding Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Mathematics, or a related field

Experience

  • At least 5 years of professional experience in computer science, AI, mathematics, or a related field
  • Deep expertise with LLMs and multimodal models
  • Strong knowledge of post training and fine tuning methods
  • Experience with large scale cloud data and training pipelines
  • Proven record of shipping ML systems in production and scaling complex services
  • Experience integrating AI into enterprise IT environments with a focus on safety, privacy, and security
  • Evidence of leadership and influence (mentoring, technical direction, strategy docs, publications, or open source contributions)

Languages

Not specified

Additional

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