AI / LLM Engineering Working Student - Remote

Overview

CognitX AI GmbH is building a privacy-first AI advisor for data analytics and process automation. We let people ask complex questions about their data in natural language and get trustworthy answers, visualizations, and automated actions. Our architecture connects directly to enterprise sources, and executes analyses through a secure compute layer. On-prem and cloud deployments are first-class.

In Short

• Build and improve agentic workflows for analytics, summaries, and visualizations.
• Implement adapters/tools to connect LLMs with internal and external services.
• Contribute to our FastAPI backend with clean interfaces and validation.
• Develop evaluation metrics to measure accuracy, latency, and cost.
• Optimize prompts and execution strategies for privacy and performance.
• Ship in containers (Docker) and collaborate on deployments (Kubernetes).
• Document decisions and share learnings with the team.

Requirements

• Experience with LLMs/AI agents and Machine Learning fundamentals.
• Strong Python skills for production code and data work.
• Familiarity with APIs and microservices, Git, and containerized development.
• Solid problem-solving and clear communication skills.
• Currently enrolled in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or a related field.

Benefits

• Work on meaningful, privacy-first AI with real enterprise pilots.
• Learn fast with tight mentorship from Senior AI Experts.
• Flexible hours, remote-friendly, and impact from day one.
• Competitive Werkstudent compensation.