KION Group

Senior AI Engineer

KION Group  •  Republic of India (Onsite)  •  8 days ago
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Job Description

Accountabilities

Design, develop and operate in-house GenAI applications aligned with KION’s AI Strategy and AI Governance

Engineer advanced LLM-powered solutions using techniques such as Prompt Engineering, Context Architecture, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Implement build-test-deploy pipelines for AI and agent solutions, ensuring reproducibility and quality

Ensure security, scalability, performance, observability, and user-facing transparency across all AI services and agents, by integrating hallucination-mitigation, explainability, and traceability mechanisms

Integrate AI safety mechanisms and guardrails to minimize hallucinations, prevent misuse, and enforce compliance standards

Research emerging AI technologies and assess their potential for adoption

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-driven automation and reusable solution components across OUs

Implement cross-organization requirements with a focus on reusability and efficiency

Take ownership of specific GenAI platform modules and associated use cases

Monitor and evaluate system and model performance with observability tools, troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvements

Manage incidents, changes, and user support requests for AI services and platforms

Create and maintain clear technical documentation and foster knowledge sharing across the organization

We offer:

Qualifications/Specialization

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
  • Specialisation or demonstrable expertise in AI/ML, Generative AI, software engineering, data engineering, and development
  • Certification such as GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer or Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) is an advantage
  • Very good knowledge of English

Tasks and Qualifications:

Main purpose of the position

  • The Senior AI Engineer is part of KION’s central Big Data & AI team within IT. The position is responsible for designing, developing, and operating secure, scalable, and trustworthy Generative AI applications and reusable platform components in alignment with KION’s AI Strategy and AI Governance
  • The role supports the adoption of AI across KION by translating business requirements into production-ready AI solutions, including LLM-powered applications, Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions, AI agents and related APIs and platform services
  • The Senior AI Engineer contributes to safe, transparent, and business-value-driven implementation of GenAI use cases across KION

Experience

  • At least 4-5 years of professional experience as an application developer, ideally in AI/ML or backend service development
  • Strong hands-on experience with LLMs (Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and modern AI-assisted development workflows
  • Expertise in AI application development (e.g., Prompt Engineering, Context Management, and AI search/RAG pipeline design) for enterprise applications
  • Proficient in Python, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript; strong experience in client-server communication development (API and MCP)
  • Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for managing cloud resources (GCP/Azure)
  • Familiarity with LLMOps/AgentOps tooling, orchestration engines (LangChain/LangGraph, ADK), and vector databases (pgvector)
  • Experience building trustworthy AI systems by implementing evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, explainability (traceability, source attribution, reasoning transparency), and AI guardrails
  • Experience deploying reliable and scalable AI applications to production environments
  • Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, with a strong usability and user-friendly mindset
  • Experience monitoring, troubleshooting and continuously improving production AI services
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues
  • Creative, hands-on mindset with willingness to experiment and innovate
  • Excellent communication skills, experience in an enterprise context is a plus
KION Group

About KION Group

Are looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of supply chain solutions is our home. KION is shaping world trade – globally, regionally, locally. We ensure that supply chains reach their full potential: fast, efficient, smart, sustainable and reliable.

Our 42,000 employees make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: The Supply Chain Solutions Company. Our people’s passion is innovating, automating, and orchestrating solutions for our customers’ supply chains.

Would you like to be part of our international team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.

With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a global group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. Regardless of which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape how we act and how we work with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both at home and abroad.

KION is the architect of global, regional and local supply chains. Our brands are well established:

Dematic is the global leader in intelligent supply chain and automation solutions. The Linde Material Handling and STILL brands serve the premium and higher value segments of the industrial truck market. Baoli focuses on industrial trucks in the lower value and economy segments.

As a provider of comprehensive supply chain solutions with a worldwide service network, KION has a global presence and a regional focus on the needs of its customers. KION brands keep the world moving.

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Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Frankfurt/Main, DE
Year Founded
2006
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