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Karen Manukyan

Karen Manukyan

Senior .NET Backend Engineer | Applied AI | Agentic Systems, RAG & Distributed Architecture

Munich

Last position:

Personal AI Engineering Project — Croky AI at Crocky AI

Product:

  • Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
  • Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
  • Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
  • Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
  • Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.

Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems

  • Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
  • Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.
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Michael Nelz

Michael Nelz

Senior ML Engineer | AI Engineer | Problem Solver

Eichenau

Last position:

Senior ML Engineer, AI Engineer at Lanxess AG

  • Deployment and scaling of existing ML initiatives, including demand and cash flow forecasts.
  • Building robust monitoring with mlflow for data stability, model performance, and drift detection, as well as implementing additional ML use cases.
  • Further development of an Agentic AI chatbot for transparent and easy-to-understand model explanations.
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Philipp Grunert

Philipp Grunert

Machine Learning & Data Engineer

München

Last position:

Data Scientist & ML Engineer at Data-Science Factory GmbH

  • Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
  • Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
  • Development of LLM and NLP models
  • Creation of interactive reports
  • Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects
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Giuseppe Abrignani

Giuseppe Abrignani

Software, AI & Automation Architect

Germering

Last position:

Embedded Software Developer at Inheco

  • AI Integration (LLM & RAG): Design and build of an internal intelligent RAG system (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) based on LLMs, n8n, and vector data for the automated analysis of technical documents and error logs.
  • Design & Implementation: Design of a robust RS-232/UART communication interface for an SBC-based embedded device to control medical shaker systems.
  • Architecture & Protocol Design: Implementation of a highly maintainable software structure (OOP, SOLID) and definition of hardware-close, resilient communication protocols including multithreading and advanced error handling.
  • Quality Assurance & DevOps: Test automation using xUnit, integration tests directly on the hardware target, and maintenance of technical documentation according to strict medical technology standards via Azure DevOps.

Label: C#, .NET, LLMs, RAG, n8n, RS-232, UART, Multithreading, async/await, xUnit, gRPC/protobuf, Blazor, MudBlazor, EF Core, Visual Studio 2026, Azure DevOps

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Thomas Martin

Thomas Martin

Senior Program & Project Manager (PMP®) · Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (TU Munich)

Poing

Last position:

Lead AI-/Agentic-Engineering at AI-/Agentic-Engineering (Own research)

AI-supported development and PM acceleration with agentic workflows; deep reinforcement learning; fully automated 24/7 setup.

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Omar Ashour

Omar Ashour

Engineering Leader · AI & Full-Stack Systems · Ex-Founder & CEO

Munich

Last position:

Senior Fullstack AI Engineer (Team Lead – B2C Platform) at mama health

  • Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
  • Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
  • Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
  • Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
  • Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
  • Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.
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Thomas Hoefkens

Thomas Hoefkens

Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer

Munich

Last position:

Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy

  • Built and operated an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, and Autoformer).
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform) and data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) to training and evaluation, model registry, and endpoint deployment.
  • Integrated MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
  • Developed and containerized PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), centralized logging, and cost monitoring.
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connected to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
  • Migrated existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) and integrated them into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
  • Extended the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
  • Analyzed and designed a software solution to efficiently process large volumes of data (>3000 messages/sec) (market data store).
  • Developed Spring Boot / Java 21 container services with RabbitMQ to distribute exchange data through MongoDB (Kubernetes), with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
  • Integrated RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
  • Built an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
  • Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
  • Developed Python scripts to transform and clean incoming exchange data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
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Matthias Lamsfuss

Matthias Lamsfuss

Freelance Developer & Founder

Munich

Last position:

Full Stack & AI Engineer at Elephant Technologies

Loom and Bloom

Python · TypeScript · n8n · Claude Code · Whisper · Gemini · Supabase · Notion · HubSpot · Digital Ocean

  • Built an end-to-end content pipeline: one Loom video → marketing images, bilingual LinkedIn posts, newsletter and Help Center updates.
  • n8n webhook → SSH → Claude Code session on a Digital Ocean VPS; three MCP servers (video, Notion, Supabase).
  • Whisper word-level transcription, ffmpeg screenshots, Gemini UI annotation, PIL device mockups.
  • Next.js upload UI plus a bilingual newsletter composer with HubSpot push.
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Julia Liselotte Dau

Julia Liselotte Dau

Content & AI Consultant

Gräfelfing

Last position:

Senior Content & AI Specialist at IU International University of Applied Sciences

Development of AI-powered marketing and content workflows, concept development for scalable content processes, prompt engineering, and development of an AI-based text generator for scalable on-brand communication as well as creation of marketing and conversion copy.

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Siegfried-Thor Bolz

Siegfried-Thor Bolz

AI Solutions Architect & Developer

Grasbrunn

Last position:

AI Solutions Architect & Developer at E-Commerce

  • Integrated LangChain middleware between AEM and SAP PIM system
  • Developed a FastAPI interface for system communication
  • Implemented vector embeddings for semantic product search
  • Evaluated LLM models (Vertex AI/Gemini, LM Studio, Hugging Face, OpenAI) for product analysis
  • Developed an AEM component to display product recommendations and integrated the recommendation API into the AEM authoring process
  • Designed and implemented Pinecone vector database for product embeddings
  • Optimized response times and caching strategies
  • Evaluated Vertex AI Studio for LLM testing and prompt workflows
  • Implemented secure API routing and access control for AI components via FastAPI and gateway validation
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Azadeh Tavassoli

Azadeh Tavassoli

AI Engineer | RAG, AI Agents & Multimodal Systems | Ex-Data Analyst (6+ yrs)

Munich

Last position:

AI Engineering Fellow at Turing College

  • Completed an intensive AI Engineering Program focused on LLM evaluation, retrieval, agent orchestration, and multimodal workflows.
  • Designed retrieval pipelines with document ingestion, semantic search, and citation-aware outputs using LangChain and ChromaDB.
  • Built LangGraph-based agent workflows with state handling, clarification loops, and human-in-the-loop approval steps.
  • Applied prompt engineering and evaluation patterns, including scoring logic and guardrails, to improve output quality and reliability.
  • Worked extensively with Python, FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, and ChromaDB in end-to-end implementations.
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Christian Schulz

Christian Schulz

Data-Scientist/AI Engineer

Ismaning

Last position:

Data-Scientist/AI Engineer at The Marcom Engine GmbH & Co. KG

  • Concept creation and implementing AI Agents in AWS Cloud
  • Continuously alignment with stakeholders
  • Collaborate with DevOps
  • Technologies: Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Python/ML, Streamlit, Deno/typescript, AWS SAM, AWS Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3, AWS Event Bridge etc.
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Markus Oberhammer

Markus Oberhammer

Lead E-Solution Architect & Senior Requirements Engineer

Munich

Last position:

Lead E-Solution Architect & Senior Requirements Engineer at Zasterbot-Oracle

  • Clarification of project goals, scope, and functional target vision for building the AI-based knowledge base.
  • Deriving the initial architecture and implementation strategy for the Zasterbot chatbot, including defining the MVP and expansion phases.
  • Developing a functional target vision for building a structured knowledge base and integrating a future chatbot.
  • Deriving and prioritizing use cases for information retrieval and provision by the chatbot.
  • Modeling data structures and flows for effectively organizing the knowledge base on the Base44 platform.
  • Designing and implementing data models for storing and linking relevant information.
  • Developing processes for extracting, analyzing, and preparing raw data for the knowledge base.
  • Ensuring data consistency and quality as the foundation for the future chatbot.
  • Planning the integration of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for precise and context-aware responses.
  • Implementing features for analyzing and visualizing data from the knowledge base.
  • Using the Base44 platform with JSON-schema-based entities and a flexible permission model.
  • Implementing Deno functions for backend logic, event processing, and external API integration.
  • Integrating OpenAI services for initial data analysis.
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Jennifer Kiunke

Jennifer Kiunke

AI Product Manager and Engineer

Munich

Last position:

AI Product Manager and Engineer at Human-in-the-Loop Studio

  • Architected and built a GenAI-based automated asset-generation tool for social media campaigns using Nano Banana and Python. It takes a campaign brief, target audience, and two products as input, generates optimized prompts for image and text creation, and uses functions for text positioning, visually appealing overlays, resizing, and structured uploads to AWS S3.
  • Engineered and built a multi-agent news intelligence platform with specialized roles including retriever agents (Tavily web scraping), synthesizer agents, and Claude as curator/orchestrator, designing autonomous agent collaboration patterns using LangChain and RAG.
  • Built an autonomous customer service agent using n8n and LLMs, delivering end-to-end support automation with transparent reasoning, governance controls, and scalable workflow orchestration using Python and vector databases.
  • Developed a financial validation engine featuring ML-powered anomaly detection for invoice plausibility, compliance automation, and risk mitigation using TensorFlow and SQL.
  • Created a cost optimization application using OCR, AI, Pandas, and NumPy for data analysis to identify cost optimization potential.
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Raghu Ram Vadali

Raghu Ram Vadali

Telco Customer Churn Prediction – End-to-End ML Pipeline

Munich

Last position:

Telco Customer Churn Prediction – End-to-End ML Pipeline at Self-Initiated Project

  • Designed and implemented a full machine learning pipeline for churn prediction using the Telco dataset.
  • Applied preprocessing techniques including missing value handling, categorical encoding, feature scaling, and PCA.
  • Built and compared over 15 models (logistic regression, random forest, XGBoost, etc.) and evaluated them using accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, ROC AUC, and PR AUC.
  • Tuned hyperparameters with GridSearchCV, achieving 80.6% accuracy with random forest and XGBoost.
  • Created visual reports (bar plots, heatmaps, radar charts) to interpret model performance and churn drivers.
  • Exported reusable pipelines and trained models with joblib for deployment.
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AI Engineers statistics

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Experience

16 years

Position duration

2.1 years

Positions per freelancer

12

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence

Top industries

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automotive

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

100%

Master's degree or higher

81%

Doctorate

10%

Certifications per freelancer

2

Most common languages

English, German, French

Speak two or more languages

100%

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Daily rate avg. 802 €

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Median rate 800 €

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About the role

What they build

AI engineers turn business problems into working systems. They design, train, adapt, and ship models that can classify, predict, recommend, generate text, or automate decisions. In practice, that often means building LLM-based features, retrieval pipelines, and model services that plug into existing products.

Typical deliverables

  • Model prototypes and proof-of-concepts
  • Production-ready AI services and APIs
  • Prompted or fine-tuned LLM workflows
  • Data pipelines for training and evaluation
  • Monitoring, logging, and retraining logic
  • Documentation for handover and ops teams

Skills that matter

A strong AI Engineer combines software engineering with applied machine learning. They write clean Python, work with APIs, manage data quality, and understand how to evaluate model output beyond a demo. They also need solid judgment about latency, cost, privacy, and failure modes.

Common tools and methods include Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenAI or open-source LLM stacks, vector databases, Docker, and cloud services. Many companies also look for experience with MLOps, feature stores, prompt engineering, and structured evaluation.

When to bring one in

Companies hire freelance AI engineers when they need focused delivery without building a full internal team first. This is common for product launches, internal automation, customer support bots, document processing, forecasting, or adding AI features to an existing platform. Munich teams in software, mobility, manufacturing, insurance, and industrial tech often need hands-on experts who can work with product, data, and engineering at the same time.

What good looks like

A good AI engineer does more than tune models. They ask the right questions about the business goal, the data, and the risk. They can explain why one approach fits better than another, and they know when a simpler rule-based solution is better than a model.

  • Clear scope and measurable output
  • Strong data and code discipline
  • Reliable evaluation, not just demo results
  • Awareness of security, privacy, and maintainability
  • Easy collaboration with product and engineering teams

Working style

Freelance AI engineers often join for short, focused work or to unblock a team that already has data and infrastructure in place. They may work remotely with regular reviews, or on-site in Munich when they need closer contact with stakeholders, labs, or internal systems. English is often enough, but German helps in cross-functional teams and in regulated or operational environments.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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An AI Engineer builds and integrates systems that use machine learning or generative AI to solve a real business problem. That can include model development, LLM integration, data pipelines, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. The best candidates do not stop at a notebook; they deliver something that can run in a product or workflow.

A freelance AI Engineer makes sense when you need focused delivery, faster start-up, or specialized knowledge for a defined project. That is common for prototypes, internal automation, model upgrades, or a production rollout that needs extra hands. If the need is still being defined, a freelancer can help shape the scope before you commit to a long-term hire.

A strong AI Engineer needs solid Python skills, practical machine learning knowledge, and the ability to ship code into real systems. Look for experience with APIs, cloud tools, data preprocessing, model evaluation, and deployment patterns. For generative AI work, LLM workflows, prompting, retrieval, and safety checks matter as well.

The terms often overlap, but they are not always identical. A machine learning engineer usually focuses more on training, deployment, and operationalizing models, while an AI engineer may also cover generative AI apps, workflow automation, and product integration. In hiring, the exact scope matters more than the title.

Ask for concrete examples of shipped systems, not just model experiments. A good AI Engineer can explain the data used, how quality was measured, what went wrong in testing, and how the solution was maintained after launch. Strong candidates also know when to reject a complex model in favor of a simpler approach.

Both can work well, depending on the project. Many AI engineers can deliver remotely if they have access to the right data, systems, and stakeholders. On-site time in Munich helps when the work depends on workshops, sensitive environments, or close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Munich companies often bring in an AI Engineer for industrial automation, mobility use cases, enterprise software, document intelligence, and customer-facing AI features. The role is also useful when teams need help moving from a proof of concept to a stable service. The best fit is usually a project with real data, a clear business owner, and a need for working software.

An AI Engineer focuses on building the model-driven solution itself, including data preparation, experimentation, and application logic. An MLOps engineer is more centered on deployment pipelines, model operations, infrastructure, and monitoring at scale. Many projects need both, and in smaller teams one person may cover parts of both roles.

The average hourly rate for AI Engineers in Munich is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 802 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as AI Engineers in Munich, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 81% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as AI Engineers in Munich have 16 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as AI Engineers in Munich are English (100%), German (96%), and French (29%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as AI Engineers in Munich are Information Technology (92%), Manufacturing (63%), and Automotive (50%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as AI Engineers in Munich are Information Technology (96%), Product Development (96%), and Business Intelligence (75%).

FRATCH AI Engineers main locations

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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