About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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, and 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
Requirements
- Strong experience as an AI Engineer, ML Engineer, or Senior Software Engineer working with modern AI systems
- Experience building or operating LLM-based systems in production, not just prototypes
- Understanding of LLM failure modes (hallucinations, non-determinism, evaluation challenges)
- Ability to consistently balance speed, quality, and pragmatism
- Comfort designing evaluation frameworks and defining quality metrics for AI behavior
- Solid backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, services, data access)
- Enjoyment working across teams and explaining complex AI concepts clearly
- Care for reliability, safety, and real business impact
- Fluent in English
Skills
- Python
- LLM APIs (Gemini, OpenAI)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Databricks
- Cloud Infrastructure
- APIs & Backend Services
- Evaluation tooling
- Observability & monitoring
- Internal developer tooling
- Agentic systems
- Multi-step workflows
- AI governance
- Risk management
- Compliance considerations (e.g. GDPR, EU AI Act)
Location
- Flexible
- Hamburg
- Berlin
Work Type
- Flexible working arrangements
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 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
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
