Senior AI Engineer

If you want to work in a fast-growing startup and build a cutting-edge AI product, this role is for you. Zapdeck is one of the leading AI tools for professional slide creation. We help teams save significant time when creating presentations.

You will play a key role in designing and scaling the agentic AI foundation behind our product, driving the development of advanced, production-ready AI systems that power next-generation presentation creation. We offer a competitive salary and an attractive equity package (VSOP), giving you a real stake in the company’s success.

We are already live in the market and work with leading enterprises with thousands of employees, building complex AI workflows across organizations. At the core of Zapdeck is an innovative agentic AI that generates complete presentations with fully on-brand design. Users work in an intuitive editor that allows them to chat with the AI assistant, create storylines, and fine-tune slide design.

Our platform combines innovative technologies across the AI stack, offering a highly professional and ambitious environment with broad opportunities to shape and scale impactful AI systems. We are on track to become one of Germany’s leading AI startups.

You will join a highly experienced founding team: Our co-founder and CEO Frederik is a former BCG consultant, and our co-founder and CTO Riccardo previously served as Technical CPO at the InsurTech startup INZMO.

Tasks

• Build and scale AI systems: Design, implement, and optimize core components of our agentic AI architecture with a focus on performance and reliability
• Develop agentic workflows: Build on multi-agent systems using LLMs, orchestration frameworks (LangGraph), RAG, and context engineering
• Ship advanced AI features: Develop innovative capabilities such as layout optimization, structured reasoning flows, and multimodal workflows
• Contribute to product evolution: Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to shape features through experimentation and rapid iteration
• Drive continuous improvement: Help refine best practices for evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and scaling of AI systems in production

Requirements

Professional requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership, creative thinking, and a pragmatic approach to building and shipping solutions quickly

• At least 2 years of experience building production-grade AI systems, with a strong focus on Large Language Models

• Proven experience designing and delivering agentic architectures and multi-step reasoning pipelines

• Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph and retrieval systems (RAG/REC)

• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, and LLM reliability optimization

• Bonus: Experience with fine-tuning LLMs or working with multimodal / visual AI models

Other requirements

• Residency in Berlin or the surrounding area

• Fluency in English, our primary business language

• Availability to start on short notice

Benefits

• Attractive compensation package including a competitive monthly salary and VSOP equity in a fast-growing AI startup

• Flexible hybrid work model with two office days per week, complemented by regular team events

• High level of ownership and creative freedom within a young, ambitious team, with the opportunity to help build the company from the ground up

• Agile, output-driven work culture with minimal meetings, low administrative overhead tasks, and direct impact on the product

• Early-stage startup exposure, including building and scaling core product functions while we onboard large enterprise customers

Ready to shape the future of AI-powered presentations with us?

We’d love to hear from you. 🚀