Junior AI Engineer

About the role

Henkel is looking for a Junior AI Engineer to join its corporate functions team. You will help design and deploy AI‑driven solutions that enhance business processes and improve decision‑making across the company.

Key responsibilities

• Build agentic LLM applications with tool‑calling, routing and multi‑step orchestration, and create RAG pipelines over enterprise documents.
• Define evaluation criteria such as accuracy, groundedness, cost and latency, and iterate on AI features accordingly.
• Integrate AI capabilities into business interfaces (Microsoft Teams, chat, voice) and enterprise data platforms (SQL warehouses, NL‑to‑SQL, BI tools).
• Develop scalable AI pipelines and embed models into production systems.
• Assess AI use cases, model performance and business impact, and collaborate with data, technology and business teams to identify opportunities.
• Implement responsible AI, governance, security and monitoring practices, and optimise solutions for scalability and reliability.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies and industry trends.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 1–2 years of relevant experience in software development or AI engineering.
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams.

Required skills

• Python programming, FastAPI, Pydantic validation.
• Agent frameworks such as LangGraph or LangChain.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Machine Learning / Deep Learning concepts, LLMs, prompt engineering and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.
• SQL and API development.
• Cloud platform experience, preferably Azure.
• Git version control.
• Nice‑to‑have: Microsoft Teams bot development (Bot Framework, Teams AI SDK), Model Context Protocol, SAP Business Technology Platform.

What we offer

• Flexible work scheme with hybrid model and up to 30 days remote work per year.
• International growth opportunities within a diverse, vibrant culture.
• Global wellbeing programs, health and preventive care.
• Gender‑neutral parental leave, employee share plan and comprehensive health insurance for employees and dependents.