Senior AI Product Engineer (m/f/d)

AI ENGINEER / AI ENABLEMENT ENGINEER (M/F/D) Location: Flexible — Hamburg, Berlin ABOUT FREENOW FREENOW empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people move freely and cities thrive. As Europe’s leading Mobility Super App, we serve more than 54 million users across 16 markets and 170+ cities. AI is becoming core to how we build products, operate the platform, and support our teams. To move from experimentation to real, measurable impact, we are building a central AI Enablement & Evaluation team — and we’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help turn AI into a reliable, scalable capability across the company. If you enjoy building AI systems that actually ship, scale, and deliver value — not just demos — this is your next ride 🚕 YOUR MISSION As a Senior AI Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of AI engineering, evaluation, and enablement. Your role is to ensure that AI systems at FREENOW are production-ready, measurable, and safe, while accelerating adoption across product and engineering teams. You will help transform AI from isolated pilots into reusable platforms, tools, and workflows used across the organization. YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE * Designing, building, and maintaining production-grade AI systems using LLMs, agents, and retrieval-based architectures * Owning and evolving the AI Evaluation Framework, including: * multi-turn evaluations * quality, safety, and hallucination metrics * offline and production-data evaluation * Partnering with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Security to ensure AI solutions are compliant, observable, and trustworthy * Supporting and scaling internal AI products such as FreenowGPT and domain-specific AI assistants * Enabling teams through shared tooling, patterns, and best practices (e.g. Gemini enablement, prompt & agent patterns) * Building reusable AI components (RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, model access layers) * Helping define standards for agent-ready architecture (MCP integrations, model abstraction, permissions) * Monitoring AI system performance, cost, and reliability in production * Acting as a technical reference point for AI across squads — from experimentation to rollout OUR AI & TECH STACK Python | LLM APIs (Gemini, OpenAI) | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Databricks | Cloud Infrastructure | APIs & Backend Services Evaluation tooling | Observability & monitoring | Internal developer tooling (Exact tools matter less than strong engineering fundamentals — the stack will evolve.) TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE * You have strong experience as an AI Engineer, ML Engineer, or Senior Software Engineer working with modern AI systems * You’ve built or operated LLM-based systems in production, not just prototypes * You understand the failure modes of LLMs (hallucinations, non-determinism, evaluation challenges) * You consistently balance speed, quality, and pragmatism; knowing when to ship, when to iterate, and when correctness is non-negotiable in production AI systems. * You are comfortable designing evaluation frameworks and defining quality metrics for AI behavior * You have solid backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, services, data access) * You enjoy working across teams and explaining complex AI concepts clearly * You care about reliability, safety, and real business impact, not hype * You are fluent in English NICE TO HAVE * Experience with agentic systems or multi-step workflows * Familiarity with AI governance, risk, or compliance considerations (e.g. GDPR, EU AI Act) * Experience enabling other teams through platforms, SDKs, or internal tools * Prior work in marketplaces, mobility, or large-scale consumer products WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS Most companies experiment with AI. Very few manage to scale it responsibly and profitably. This role is central to: * reducing AI risk in customer-facing systems (support, dispatch, booking), * unlocking company-wide productivity through internal AI products, * and building the technical foundations that allow FREENOW to move fast without breaking trust. You’ll help define how AI is built at FREENOW for years to come. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL: * Flexible working arrangements * LinkedIn Learning * Sabbatical & special leave policies * WeRoad partnership * Birthday, 24th + 31st December off * Short term EU work policy * Mobility Credit * Health insurance * Employee assistance program   Plus more local benefits depending on your work location! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION: Freenow is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT US: Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app.  In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. 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JOIN VOYFAI, A FAST-GROWING SERIES A STARTUP SHAPING THE FUTURE OF LOGISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY ACROSS EUROPE. Headquartered in Berlin, we operate at the center of a broader group of companies active across several European markets. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership from day one, drive meaningful impact and grow within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Whether you're shaping processes, building strategies or leading initiatives, your contributions will directly influence the success of Voyfai and the companies we support. If you're passionate about building from scratch and excited to be part of a company on the rise, we'd love to hear from you. YOUR ROLE We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d) to play a key role in building the core infrastructure of our logistics platform. In this role, you will work closely with AI engineers and product stakeholders to define system architecture, integrate with transport management systems, and develop customer-facing features powered by large language models. Your work will be critical in shaping our engineering practices and establishing a scalable foundation for future product development over the next 12 months. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: * Design and develop scalable software solutions with a strong focus on system architecture and clean code * Build and optimize integrations with transport management systems and third-party logistics platforms * Collaborate with AI engineers to deliver customer-facing features powered by large language models * Improve system reliability, maintainability and scalability by addressing technical debt and evolving the tech stack * Work with PostgreSQL to ensure data consistency, integrity and performance * Leverage cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP to support infrastructure and deployment * Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD practices to improve release speed and operational stability * Occasionally support customers directly, helping translate their needs into product and engineering solutions WHAT YOU BRING: * 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend architecture skills and comfort across the full stack * Solid command of JavaScript or TypeScript across both backend and frontend contexts * Experience with SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL * Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on cloud platforms like AWS or GCP * Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and modern software development practices * Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders * A proactive, ownership-driven mindset suited for fast-paced startup environments WHAT WE OFFER * Competitive salary and equity options * A dynamic, fast-paced work environment with a mission-driven team * Flexible working arrangements (Hybrid) * 30 days of PTO * Regular team events and offsites * Monthly mobility budget via Navit