Agile Robots SE has acquired a majority stake in audEERING GmbH in 2025. This vacancy is to be filled at audEERING GmbH, either in Munich or in Berlin.

You're an expert in deep learning, LLMs, and multi-modal AI, with a passion for driving groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence?
Join a pioneering team shaping the future of intelligence!
As a Senior AI Researcher (m/f/d), you’ll lead the development of LLMs, push the boundaries of multi-modal AI, and translate state-of-the-art research into production-ready innovations. This role blends advanced NLP research with hands-on engineering — from data curation and model training to distributed systems and performance optimization.

Your Responsibilities

Pre-training & Specializing LLMs – Be responsible for developing, optimizing, and adapting largescale language models for a variety of applications, ensuring efficiency, adaptability, and high performance. Contribute to model refinement and specialization, leveraging advanced training methodologies to enhance capabilities across domains. Work on evaluation and benchmarking frameworks to assess and improve model effectiveness, enabling robust and scalable AI solutions.
Applied Research & Hands-On Development – Combine applied NLP research with hands-on engineering, spanning model training, fine-tuning, prompting, and deployment. Set up and manage computing clusters, distributed training environments, and compute optimization for large-scale experiments.
Data Curation & Model Preparation – Handle data curation, dataset selection, and checkpoint preparation to facilitate high-quality model training and evaluation.
State-of-the-Art Research & Implementation – Stay up to date with cutting-edge AI research, identify and understand state-of-the-art techniques, and translate them into technical reports, papers, and production-ready implementations.
Multi-Modal AI Development – Contribute to multi-modal AI, integrate various data modalities and develop novel multi-modal large-scale models.

Essential Skills

PhD (or equivalent substantial related work experience in a R&D department in industry) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
First-author publications at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, Interspeech, and ICASSP) or machine learning journals, or author of patents
Profound understanding of the field of AI, including fundamental concepts of Machine Learning, training algorithms, evaluation methods and statistics
Good knowledge of recent Deep Learning architectures
Experience with Natural Language Processing/Large Language Models, such as model training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
High proficiency in Python and PyTorch and/or similar and related frameworks
Fundamental knowledge of Linux and command-line tools
Excellent team player, problem solver and goal achiever
Ability to work in a fast-evolving field, dynamic work environment and to deliver on time

Beneficial Skills

Experience with reinforcement learning
Experience in distributed model training, implementation of training parallelization, and performance optimization
Good knowledge of C/C++ and CUDA
Experience with major cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle)

What we offer

A dynamic, highly qualified and diverse team in which your contributions are reflected directly in our products and used by our international customer base
Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
Exciting and varying tasks for our product portfolio
Excellent working environment, modern office space and flexible working hours with the option of mobile working
Close connection to academic research (EU and national projects) and a highly innovative company
Team and company events
Free drinks, coffee, tea & fruit and snacks

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About us

Agile Robots SE is an international high-tech company based in Munich, Germany with a production site in Kaufbeuren and more than 2300 employees worldwide. Our mission is to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and robotics by developing systems that combine state-of-the-art force-moment-sensing and world-leading image-processing technology. This unique combination of technologies allows us to provide user-friendly and affordable robotic solutions that enable intelligent precision assembly.

This is made possible by our employees, who bring out the best in each and every day with creativity and enthusiasm. Become part of this team and shape the future of robotics with us!

We are proud of our diversity and welcome your application regardless of gender and sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, or disability.

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