Job Description

Working Student – AI Operations Engineer (m/f/x)

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Part Time

Location: Mannheim

Description

Be Part of a High-Growth Scale-Up and Build the Future of AI from Day One

Are you looking for a working student role where you can work hands-on with cutting-edge AI technologies and gain real engineering experience in a fast-growing software company? Do you enjoy building things, working with data and APIs, and turning new technologies into reliable solutions? Welcome to osapiens!

We are one of Europe’s fastest-growing B2B software companies, building technology that helps global organizations navigate complex business and regulatory challenges. As part of our Central AI Operations team in Mannheim, you will work on the AI systems that power osapiens internally: the tools, agents, and data infrastructure our own teams rely on every day

This role is about more than experimenting with AI. As a Working Student – AI Operations Engineer (m/f/x), you will help build, operate, evaluate, and continuously improve internal AI-powered solutions in a real-world production environment.

Whether you are passionate about LLMs, agentic systems, data engineering, or software development, this is an opportunity to deepen your technical skills and see how AI systems are built and operated at scale.

Your Responsibilities

• Pipeline & Data Tasks Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines and workflows that support our AI applications, working with structured and unstructured data across different systems.
• Infrastructure & Deployment Support the setup, deployment, and operation of AI services and agents while contributing to reliable and scalable infrastructure.
• Evaluation & Quality Assurance Develop and execute evaluation approaches for LLM-based systems, monitor quality and performance, and help ensure AI solutions meet defined standards.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing Document technical processes, workflows, integrations, and learnings to make our AI systems easier to operate, maintain, and scale.
• Research & Prototyping Explore emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and approaches and turn promising ideas into prototypes and practical solutions that support osapiens' internal AI transformation

Your Experience

• Academic Background: Currently enrolled as a Master’s student (or advanced Bachelor’s student) in a technical degree such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Core Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and API integrations is required, with an engineering-oriented mindset for building reliable, production-grade solutions
• AI & Engineering Tools: Experience with or strong interest in agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph, Git/GitHub, n8n workflows, vector databases, and LLM evaluation.
• Technical Curiosity: You enjoy understanding how systems work under the hood, experimenting with new technologies, and turning ideas into working prototypes.
• Structured & Reliable: You are detail-oriented, comfortable working with complex technical systems, and able to approach problems systematically.
• Language: Fluent in English, German is a plus

Join us for this and more...

• A purpose-driven mission tackling complex sustainability challenges while working alongside global industry pioneers at a fast-growing unicorn company
• A dynamic, collaborative work environment where your ideas are valued and implemented
• Hands-on experience building and operating real-world internal AI systems
• An internal student network with regular meet-ups that connect you with peers across departments, offer insights into different areas, and help you grow your network
• And of course – free drinks and snacks to keep you energized during your day.