Lead AI Engineer (m/w/d)

Location: Remote, occasional travel required to Hanover (GER) or London
Salary: Competitive, based on experience

We are Kintiga (formerly MAP Patient Access, Axtalis, and SKC), a pan-European specialist consultancy that partners with ambitious health technology developers through the complex journey to achieve successful market access across Europe,with our tailored approach, global perspective and local expertise. Our clients in healthcare and life sciences are leading innovators in pharma, biotech, medtech, digital health, and diagnostics. As part of Kintiga, we support the successful launch and reimbursement of breakthrough therapies and technologies.

We are looking for an experienced Lead AI Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across our AI-driven
products and platforms. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with practical application of AI / machine learning, and the ability to manage external AI development partnership and provide technical direction to the wider delivery team and manager other developers. You will set technical direction, design and build production-grade AI solutions, and ensure high standards of security, scalability, and maintainability. You will work closely with product managers, analysts, users, and business stakeholders to turn ideas into reliable and impactful systems.

• Drive the development of cutting-edge AI solutions and strategies.
• Bring your unique insights and experience into AI discussion. Be a major voice on buy-it vs build-it commercial decision-making and technical feasibility discussions.
• Work with AI Suite Product Owners (stream leads) and the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) to maintain and plan roadmaps for existing and new AI Suite tools.
• Manage our AI solutions, lead the technical partnership with our primary AI development partner (reporting to CDO) and provide technical direction to the wider contractor and developer network
• Stay up to date with latest AI technologies and contribute to in-house R&D initiatives.
• Ownership of AI services & projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals & deadlines.
• Propose, design and deploy production-grade AI systems including LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, and intelligent automation workflows, - with ownership of Kintiga’s live AI Suite products (EPRI, SLR v2, PICSI) - from a hands-on technical leadership & practical coding perspective, to enhance organisational and client delivery capabilities.
• Manage and take ownership of our CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud deployments.
• Contribute to product roadmap planning and technical feasibility discussions.

• Proficiency in LLMs, agentic AI, deep learning, NLP, and predictive analytics.
• Strong background in software engineering (e.g. Python, TypeScript or similar) and hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent; familiarity with model training frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) is useful but not a primary requirement.
• Experience in AI/ML platform technologies and services such as Azure ML/Sagemaker/Vertex, OpenAI, AutoML, OCR, STT, feature stores, vector databases.
• Implementation of AI/ML architectural patterns and best practices e.g. data drift detection, experimentation tracking, RAG, deployment models
• Familiarity with database management and basic data pipeline concepts
• Proven experience leading development or engineering teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a preference for Azure.
• Solid understanding of API development & microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines and release workflows, containerisation using Docker, secure coding practices
• Comfortable balancing hands-on delivery with strategic responsibilities

• Dynamic work environment with a highly motivated team.
• Exciting career opportunities in a fast-growing international business.
• Entrepreneurial culture, openness, and integrity.
• A comprehensive onboarding and mentoring program as well as employee events
• Individual development with extensive training and development programs.
• Generous annual leave and a permanent position.
• High-end digital equipment, AI-based tools and hybrid working.
• Modern, centrally located office space with a variety of healthy snacks
• Attractive croporate benefits: wellbeing support, E-Leasing, employee events and much more.

We look forward to receiving your application, incl.

• Letter of application
• Curriculum vitae
• Complete certificates incl. high school diploma
• Earliest possible start date
• Salary expectations

Please submit your application via our online application portal.