Working Student (m/f/x) Software Engineering & Architecture

The appliedAI Initiative elevates Europe’s industry to become shapers in the age of AI, creating a future that we desire to live in. Through our ecosystem of strong partners, comprehensive programs, services and solutions we advance companies holistically on their AI journey. With our uniquely diverse, interdisciplinary, and driven team, we build on deep technical expertise while specializing on applicability of the solutions. We share a mindset of collaboration and openness with our ecosystem of leading companies and tech players. Our common goal is to strengthen the European landscape, jointly creating unique knowledge for applying trustworthy AI. We believe that AI Agents will be the dominant topic for AI in the near future and that appliedAI with its partner ecosystem will impact how this technology is being used in industry and beyond in Europe.

As a Working Student in Professional Services, you will support engineers and architects in building production-grade AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will contribute to software components, pipelines, testing, and documentation while learning how heavy-duty AI systems are designed and operated.
Your tasks will include:

• Contribute to APIs, services, and integration code under guidance; write clean, testable Python (and optionally TypeScript/Go/Java)
• Assist in building and hardening data/feature pipelines; help enforce data quality and reproducibility
• Support model packaging, deployment, and evaluation workflows; automate tests and CI/CD checks
• Help instrument observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and improve developer experience
• Create and maintain documentation, diagrams, and internal demos/accelerators
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams; participate in customer demos and technical discussions

• Enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field
• 6+ months of hands-on coding experience (projects, internships, open source) with Python; Git and testing basics
• Familiarity with foundational ML concepts and at least one of: FastAPI, Flask, Node.js, or Java/Go
• Nice to have: Docker, basic Kubernetes, cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), and simple CI/CD pipelines
• Curious, proactive, and detail-oriented; strong communication skills and team mindset
• Fluent English, fluency in German is a plus

• A highly qualified and motivated team of ~80 people on a journey to change the rapidly evolving European AI Landscape.
• Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model: You can choose to work from our vibrant offices - either at the IPAI in Heilbronn or the House of Communication in Munich - while also enjoying the flexibility to work remotely a few days each week
• Opportunity to shape a variety of projects and the development of new, original content based on the latest developments in AI and its adoption in businesses
• An atmosphere that encourages to think and experiment in new ways with software, hardware, and processes
• Hottest topics of the next decade and freedom and trust to initiate own activities
• A highly visible initiative that helps you build a large and high-level network of start-ups, partners, and tech companies
• Sports membership with Wellpass to access thousands of sports facilities all over Germany (and beyond)

Lucas Fernandes - Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
appliedAI Initiative GmbH, August-Everding-Str. 25, 81671 München