AI Engineer - Data

This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000). We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 70 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.

About Almedia: Almedia is Europe's #3 fastest-growing company (FT1000, 2025), bootstrapped and profitable from day one, and on track to become Germany's second bootstrapped unicorn. We reward our community of 80M+ users for engaging with our advertisers' products, giving the world's biggest companies a new way to acquire and retain users. Our products include Freecash, Zave.IT, and Link.

This is our first dedicated AI Engineer in the data team: a hands-on, build-and-ship role with unusually broad scope, right at the core of how our product works.

What you'll own:

• The AI behind our rewards engine. We want to create our next generation of reward design system fully agentically.
• Open-ended AI problems, end to end. You'll take the fuzzy "could AI help here?" problems, deeply understand the underlying business logic and turn them into shipped agentic systems.
• Genuinely agentic systems: You'll decide where AI belongs and, just as importantly, where it doesn't.
• The standard for how AI gets built here. As our first dedicated AI Engineer, the patterns, tooling and judgement you set become how AI-fluent data scientists across the team work.

What you'll bring:

• Own everything, take initiative: you take AI problems from a vague brief to a shipped, working system without being asked.
• Move fast: you start before you're ready, ship the small test, and iterate against real data.
• Raise the bar: your standards show up in the systems you ship, not in what you say.
• Focus on impact: you know when not to reach for AI, and can name the simpler thing you chose instead to protect what mattered most.
• AI-native: agents, LLM pipelines, RAG and modern AI tooling are already part of how you build.
• You've built real AI systems: you can code (Python), and you've shipped something genuinely agentic.
• Bonus: adtech, marketplaces, recommendations/ranking, or high-scale consumer products.

How we work:

• Ownership from day one. You'll be trusted with real responsibility fast, and held to it.
• Intensity, rewarded. We move quicker than almost anyone, and pay, bonuses and progression reflect it.
• AI without limits. Best-in-class AI tooling, company-paid, built into every team's workflow.
• In person. We're 5 days a week in the office. Not local yet? We support your relocation to London or Berlin.

Tech stack:

• Language: Python — the non-negotiable.
• AI / LLM: modern LLM APIs and open models; agentic frameworks and orchestration; RAG and vector search; evaluation frameworks / eval-driven development; prompt and context engineering.
• Data & infra: BigQuery and SQL over large behavioural datasets; cloud (AWS / GCP), containers, CI/CD.

We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.