Founding Engineer — Applied AI in Berlin

Founding Engineer — Applied AI

Location: Berlin (Hybrid, 3 days/week in office)

Compensation: €60,000 – €90,000 + substantial VSOP equity & bonus

Experience: 3+ years

Language: German (Conversational / B2)

About the Mission

Doctors spend up to 68% of their time on administrative work instead of caring for patients. We are building state-of-the-art AI agents to supercharge and multiply doctors—freeing them from bureaucratic burdens so they can focus entirely on people.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial Founding Engineer — Applied AI to join our ultra-lean team in Berlin. You will work side-by-side with the CTO, own critical systems end-to-end, and ship software that runs in real hospitals within weeks.

Key Responsibilities

• Own & Scale Backend Systems: Build and maintain the Python backend powering real-time medical documentation in production.
• Build Real-Time AI Pipelines: Implement live transcription of medical conversations using streaming audio, multiple Speech-to-Text (STT) providers, quality monitoring, and automatic failovers.
• Drive Applied AI Engineering: Design and optimize our applied-AI core, including LLM evaluation pipelines, prompt optimization, multi-provider routing and fallback chains, balancing cost and latency at scale.
• Manage Infrastructure: Oversee and improve multi-cloud production infrastructure (Docker, CI/CD, observability) to ensure absolute reliability in clinical settings.
• Personalize the AI Experience: Analyze LLM traces, detect doctor edits, and create memory architectures to automate future documentation per practice.
• Shape the Product: Launch greenfield AI features, build light frontend integrations as needed, and communicate directly with customers to gather feedback.

What We Are Looking For (Must-Haves)

• Strong Engineering Foundation: At least 3 years of professional coding experience with strong Python skills and a proven ability to build and ship projects independently (not just tickets).
• Applied AI Experience: Hands-on exposure to modern AI tools, LLM engineering, prompt optimization, routing, evaluation pipelines, and real-time systems.
• High Agency & Ownership: A startup mentality ("move fast in the fog"), comfort with ambiguity, and a proactive attitude toward solving real business and product problems.
• User Empathy: Deep empathy for doctors and patients, with a genuine motivation for the healthcare mission.
• Communication & Location: Conversational German language skills (B2) and willingness to work hybrid from our Berlin office (3 days/week) with occasional travel to customer sites in Germany.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with FastAPI, real-time WebSocket audio pipelines, Supabase / Postgres, Docker, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with multi-provider LLM layers and streaming STT across multiple vendors.
• Exposure to Dart / Flutter (Windows desktop & Web).
• A MedTech, MINT, or clinical background (or serious self-taught shipped projects).

Our Core Values

• Listen, then talk: We take other people's ideas seriously before offering our own and assume they know something we don't.
• Best idea wins: The best argument decides—not the loudest voice or highest title.
• Candid is kind: We speak early and directly because we care.
• Close the loop: Whoever owns a topic sees it through to a solution.
• Move fast in the fog: Greenfield and uncertainty are our normal; we take calculated risks quickly.
• Pursue excellence: We strive for the best while focusing ruthlessly on what matters.

What We Offer

• Tangible Social Impact: Your code goes live in hospitals within weeks, directly relieving doctors of administrative stress.
• Founder-Level Role: True end-to-end ownership and significant decision-making autonomy over the product and tech roadmap.
• Attractive Compensation: Competitive base salary (€60,000 – €90,000), performance bonus, and meaningful founding-level VSOP equity.
• Cutting-Edge Tech: Daily work with state-of-the-art applied AI (LLMs, streaming STT, multi-cloud) with total freedom to prototype and ship.
• Perks: A hybrid setup with flexible working hours, choice of work devices, and an Urban Sports Club membership.

Are you ready to combine backend mastery with applied AI to transform healthcare? We'd love to hear from you.

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