Senior AI Engineer (f/m/d)

Alpas · Berlin Street, Area · Full-time

Description

About Alpas Alpas is a Y Combinator portfolio company building agentic sourcing technology for direct procurement. Our AI agents find, qualify and enrich suppliers so procurement teams reach objectives such as cost reduction, risk mitigation, resilience and innovation. We are based in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, and work hybrid. The role You join our Engineering team as a senior individual contributor and report directly to the CTO. We work in small, cross-functional product teams without middle management; you own your projects end to end, from design to production operation. Your mission: Enable fully-automated supplier analysis at stellar quality. Your responsibilities Design, build and operate production AI agents with LangGraph, including agentic workflow patterns (planning, tool use, reflection, human-in-the-loop) Build NLP and RAG pipelines (vector databases, retrieval strategies, evaluation) that feed the agents Integrate agents reliably with our backend services (Python, FastAPI, Pub/Sub, GCP) and keep agent-to-agent and agent-to-backend interfaces scalable Own MLOps for agentic workloads: CI/CD, monitoring, evaluation pipelines, cost control and inference efficiency Set…