AI Engineer

About The Company

People and businesses need security to develop freely and confidently. For 145 years, Funk – Internationaler Versicherungsmakler und Risk Consultant has helped create that security. As Germany’s largest owner-managed insurance broker, Funk works with organizations to understand and manage risk, providing expertise that supports their long-term resilience.

The company combines an established history in insurance and risk consulting with an ambition to keep evolving. Innovation is an important part of this work, helping Funk identify new ways to respond to changing needs and opportunities. Join a business with a long-standing presence in its sector and contribute to its next steps in technology and innovation.

About The Role

Funk is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join its innovation engine and develop new features and use cases using modern artificial intelligence technologies. In this role, you will help turn promising AI capabilities into practical solutions that can support the company and its customers. You will bring senior-level engineering judgment to the full development process, from exploring a problem and evaluating possible approaches to building, testing, and improving software.

You will work with colleagues to understand business needs, assess technical opportunities, and shape solutions that are useful, reliable, and suitable for real-world use. This is an opportunity to apply your AI engineering expertise in an established insurance and risk consulting environment.

Qualifications

You bring substantial professional experience in AI engineering, software engineering, or a closely related field, along with the ability to develop solutions using contemporary AI technologies. You are comfortable assessing technical options and translating complex requirements into clear, maintainable implementations. Strong programming and software design skills are important, as is an understanding of how to build, evaluate, and improve AI-enabled applications.

You approach problems analytically, communicate your reasoning clearly, and can collaborate with colleagues who may have different technical backgrounds. You take responsibility for the quality of your work and are interested in applying innovation to meaningful business challenges.

Experience delivering AI features or use cases from initial exploration through implementation is valuable. A willingness to keep learning as tools and methods develop will help you succeed in this evolving area.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and improve AI-powered features and use cases that support Funk’s innovation goals. Explore modern AI technologies and evaluate how they can address specific user or business needs. Work with stakeholders and colleagues to clarify requirements, identify relevant constraints, and turn ideas into feasible technical plans.

Build and maintain software components, ensuring that solutions are understandable, testable, and fit for their intended purpose. Assess the performance and practical value of AI-enabled solutions, using feedback and appropriate evaluation methods to guide improvements. Consider reliability, responsible implementation, data handling, and user needs throughout development.

Share technical knowledge with the wider team, document key decisions, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture. Help identify opportunities to expand successful experiments into useful features, while making sound decisions about feasibility, quality, and ongoing maintenance.

Benefits

At Funk, you can contribute to the development of new AI features and use cases within a company that has been shaping security and risk solutions for 145 years. The role offers the opportunity to work with modern technologies, take part in innovation, and see how engineering can address practical challenges in the insurance and risk consulting sector. You will collaborate with colleagues and contribute your expertise to work that supports the company’s continued development.

Specific employment conditions and benefits can be discussed during the application process.

Equal Opportunity

Funk welcomes applications from qualified candidates with different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. We value professional expertise, thoughtful collaboration, and a shared interest in developing useful, responsible technology. Hiring decisions are based on role-related qualifications and the needs of the position.