Lead AI Engineer & Strategist (m/f/d)

Are you passionate about shaping the future with artificial intelligence? Are you an entrepreneurial leader with hands-on AI experience, seeking to drive impactful AI initiatives in dynamic environments with a pragmatic mindset? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! At LEONI, we’re embarking on an AI journey, and we’re seeking an experienced AI Engineer & Strategist to take a leading role in our new AI Center of Excellence. As a key member of our growing team, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining our AI strategy, implementing cutting-edge solutions, and empowering our organization to harness the full potential of AI. We're eager to welcome you aboard!

Your tasks:

· Define strategy & best practices (where to go and how to do it)

o Define and refine Al strategy (set direction)

o Define and refine Al framework (practical best practices/rules for implementation)

o Prioritize AI use cases and resources

o Proactively monitor and assess AI innovations and their potential for the company

· Develop and/or manage AI implementations end-to-end (execution)

o Overall AI solution design (How can we solve problem/opportunity ABC)

o Implementation

o Manage projects end-to-end (e.g. external providers; driving the project proactively; etc.)

o Develop the data science part yourself, if necessary (ETL, model selection, training, tuning, validation, monitoring)

o Define, select and implement AI infrastructure together with IT colleagues

o Tool & frameworks selection

· Enable the organization (empower others internally)

o Creating awareness, communication, collaboration & knowledge exchange around AI

o Education and Trainings: Internal AI trainings and developing of AI talent

o Building & managing of external AI ecosystem

o Supporting data governance topics