𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 + 𝗔𝗜-𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼per @ Sophia AI

Location: Freiburg, Germany (Hybrid/Onsite)

Compensation: €100k+ Equity: 5-10%

Serial-Founder: Simon Tüchelmann

🏔 The Mission: Autonomous Operations for Manufacturing SMBs

Manufacturing SMBs are currently drowning in complexity. Every day, critical data is lost in a flood of emails, phone calls, and manual spreadsheets that try to bridge the gap between accounting, supply chain, and production.

Sophia AI builds the platform that ends this chaos. We don't just digitize processes; we automate them, driving immediate improvements in revenue and efficiency.

Why is this hard? We are solving the problem of fully self-serve AI. While competitors rely on service teams to deploy their software, we are building a system where the software deploys itself. Our technical breakthrough is an interface where users correct and guide agents just as they would a junior employee—turning complex prompt engineering into natural, human feedback.

The destination is clear: Autonomous Manufacturing Operations.

🛠 Your Role: AI-Lead

As the AI-focused Backend Founding Engineer you are building the basis for Autonomous Manufacturing Operations.

• Ship Daily: Move from idea to production in hours, not weeks.
• AI-Native Workflow: Use Cursor, Claude, and internal LLM tools to multiply your output. If you can automate a task, do it.
• System Architecture: Design the integration layer connecting LLMs to real-world business software (Accounting, ERPs and CRMs)
• Ownership: You own the outcome. If an agent or workflow fails, don't just fix the bug—build the eval system to ensure it never happens again.

💻 The Stack

We value tools that allow for speed and type safety.

👤 Who You Are

We don't care about your years of experience. We care about what you’ve built.

• Builder: You have side projects, open-source contributions, or products you’ve shipped that you are genuinely proud of.
• New Grads Welcome: If you are a cracked engineer straight out of uni who has been building AI agents in your dorm room, we want to talk to you.
• Resourceful: You don't wait for a spec. You figure out what needs to happen and you make it happen.
• Freiburg & at Customer On-Site: We work in tight loops. Being in the room together matters at this stage.