Applied AI Engineer

Taktile is a high growth, post product market fit startup on a fast trajectory to becoming market leader in the field of automated decisioning. We are looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join the team building our next generation of AI agents for automated decisioning.

You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and applied machine learning. Your focus will be to design, build and operate production ready agents that use LLMs, tools and data to help our customers automate complex decisions. If you are ambitious, have strong engineering fundamentals and want to see your models and agents used in real customer workflows, this role is for you.

• Build and operate AI agents in production

  Design, implement and maintain agent based systems in Python using frameworks from the modern agents ecosystem. Design, implement and maintain agents that power underwriting, onboarding and investigations for our customers.

• Build strong evaluation datasets

  Create and maintain datasets that capture real world scenarios and edge cases. Work with domain experts to source and label samples, and use these datasets to reveal failure modes and improve agent performance.

• Work on backend components and APIs

  Develop backend services in Python and FastAPI, hosted on AWS. Expose your agents as reliable APIs, integrate them with Taktile flows and ensure correctness, observability and performance.

• Shape our agent platform

  Contribute to internal libraries and patterns for building, evaluating and deploying agents. Help define how we do prompting, tool orchestration, retrieval, evaluation and monitoring in a repeatable way.

• Collaborate across disciplines

  Partner with product managers, data scientists and forward deployed engineers to translate decisioning use cases into agent workflows. Participate in design reviews, technical deep dives and experimentation.

• Learn and grow in applied AI

  Deepen your understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, experiment with new techniques and share learnings with the broader team through demos and cross team learning groups.

• Taktile is a hybrid company with options to work from either our Berlin HQ. Taktile will not cover relocation services for this role.

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a remote environment requiring clear and effective communication.

• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for simplicity, precision and reliability.

• Curiosity about how to apply AI safely and effectively in real world products.

• Comfortable getting hands-on and truly understanding the data.

• At least 3 years of professional experience in software development with an emphasis on machine learning and natural language processing.

• Prior industry experience with Python backend development or as a ML engineer shipping models or LLM based features into production.

• Hands on experience with large language models using APIs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI or similar.

• Experience with at least one agent or orchestration framework, for example LangChain, ADK, Strands ****or equivalent custom tooling, for tool calling, RAG or multi step workflows.

• Experience with databases and a major cloud provider (AWS preferred).

• Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation.

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

• DynamoDB, Postgres, Pydantic, AWS Lambda, SQLAlchemy.

• Experience building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines or similar data access patterns for LLMs.

• Experience with evaluation and monitoring of LLM systems, for example prompt or agent evals, regression tests or offline replay.

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring and driven, you will find yourself at home here.

• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo.

• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe.

• Receive a top of market equity and cash compensation package.

• Get access to a self development budget you can use to for example attend conferences, buy books or take classes.

• Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as meaningful home office set up.

We are eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We are looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply.

We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We will not inquire about how you identify or if you have experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears.

Taktile helps financial institutions make smarter, safer decisions with the power of AI. Our software gives teams the tools to automate complex decisions — like who to onboard, how to underwrite, or when to flag suspicious activity — with full visibility and control.

By combining AI with a rich ecosystem of financial data, Taktile enables companies to adapt their decision-making in real time as markets, customer behavior, and risks evolve.

Our mission is to build the world's leading platform for automated decision-making in financial services — setting the standard for how AI is applied responsibly and effectively in this industry.

We were founded by machine learning and data science experts with deep experience in financial services. Today, our team works across Berlin, London, and New York, bringing together engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers from companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta, as well as fast-growing startups and enterprise leaders.

Backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, and Tiger Global, along with the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog, and UiPath - we're building a world-class organization across all functions and levels to power the next generation of AI-driven decision-making in financial services.