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 a