Your tasksAs an AI Engineer at Teufel, you build the technical foundation that enables AI to work reliably across our business. You operate between core IT and AI‑driven use cases, evaluating modern models and platforms, designing integrations, and connecting them to our data and systems in a secure and scalable way while making sure AI at Teufel is technically sound, efficient, and fit for production.

AI Technology Evaluation
• Continuously assess state-of-the-art AI models, platforms and solutions (e.g. frontier foundation models, open-weight models, multimodal systems).
• Understand current AI technology (training, inference, tokenization, embeddings, context windows, fine-tuning, adapters).
• Evaluate strengths, limitations, trade-offs, and risks of different AI approaches for Teufel use cases.

Bridging IT & Business Domains
• Act as the technical translator and advisor between IT and business stakeholders using or requesting AI capabilities
• Support PoCs and pilots with a clear path to production readiness.
• Provide technical guidance and guardrails for AI usage in departments.

Data Integration
• Define and implement best practices for AI integration.
• Evaluate and integrate AI related protocols and standards (e.g. MCP, UCP, etc.).
• Collaborating closely with our Data Engineering team to make data available to selected AI tools (e.g. via RAG)
• Ensure data quality, lineage, access control, and auditability.

AI Platform & Tooling Ownership
• Design and maintain Teufel’s AI solution architecture including
• Platforms
• Tools & Agents
• Models
• API gateways
• Monitoring, logging, cost control
• Work closely with IT Security and Compliance on governance, privacy, EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2 implications.

Your profile
• Strong background in IT, Software engineering, Data engineering, or Cloud Architecture
• Deep understanding of Modern AI / ML concepts (LLMs, transformers, diffusion, multimodal models)
• Practical knowledge of vector databases, embedding strategies, search & retrieval systems, prompt orchestration frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures
• Python and/or similar programming languages
• Ability to explain AI behavior and risks to non-AI experts—without oversimplifying
• Professional communication skills in English, German skills are a plus

Our offer
• A long-term employment contract with 30 days’ vacation per year and an additional 1 day off for birthdays and up to 2 days off for social commitment
• Hybrid working on site and from home office with flexible working hours for a good work-life balance
• Attractive benefits such as a subsidy for public transport tickets, a job bike, a variety of sports offers, mental health offers and of course a discount on our Teufel products
• A modern workspace in an excellent location
• A friendly team with a shared passion for first-class sound
• The dynamism of a start-up combined with the many years of experience of a successful medium-sized company
• In-house development engineered in Berlin

About usWe have stood for loud sound, innovative ideas and first-class employees for 45 years. With a team of more than 350 specialised professionals, we give our best every day to provide Teufel fans with the best sound at the best price from all our products – which range from headphones and portable speakers to streaming devices and home cinema systems. Our employees work in a lively environment within a growing company that offers many opportunities for personal and professional development.

At Teufel, we are committed to creating and maintaining an appreciative and prejudice-free working environment for our employees. We have signed the "Charter of Diversity" and are a certified EQUAL-SALARY employer. We are aware that an orchestra needs diversity to produce good sound. Therefore, we welcome applications from people who live this diversity.