Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Software, Data
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 75.000 to 95.000€ gross/year
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you set the technical direction for AI-native engineering, develop prototypes and architectures, evaluate tools, and work closely with executives to create evidence-based solutions.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- At SQUER, we help established companies become AI-native engineering organizations.
- As Distinguished Engineer, AI-Native Engineering, you set the technical direction for that work, and you build the proof yourself.
- This is our most senior individual contributor role.
- It exists because the interesting questions in AI-native delivery don't have answers yet, and someone has to go find them, then convince a room full of skeptical enterprise architects that the answer holds.
- You spend part of your time in front of CTOs and on conference stages, and part of it in a terminal finding out whether the thing you're about to recommend actually works.
- Set the technical direction for AI-native delivery at SQUER: the practices, the reference architectures, the guardrails, the definition of done for agent output.
- Not as a document nobody reads, but as something our teams actually use.
- Build what doesn't exist yet.
- Prototyp the pipelines, agents, and internal tooling that our clients will ask for in two years, and be honest about what fails.
- Act as technical counterpart to CTOs, principal engineers, and account leads at our strategic accounts.
- You go where the conversation is stuck, not where the ticket is.
- Take the uncomfortable positions publicly, and back them with evidence: what AI actually changes about platform strategy, where agentic delivery breaks, what enterprise governance has to look like when code writes itself.
- Drive SQUER's own AI enablement: learning paths, internal dogfooding, and the engineering practices behind our AI fluency, across more than a hundred engineers.
- Evaluate models, tools, and agent frameworks, and decide with the TechOffice what we bet on.
- Verantwortung für die technische Seite unserer Partnerbeziehungen und Zertifizierungen übernehmen.
- Represent SQUER where it counts: keynotes, publications, our own conference and meetup formats, and the technical hard parts of pitches and RFPs.
- Grow our Leads and Principals through coaching and pairing.
- Your impact is measured by what the organisation can do, not by what you shipped alone.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Deep hands-on practice with agentic engineering: coding agents, spec-driven development, MCP, orchestration, evaluation.
- You have your own workflows, and you can explain in detail where they fail.
- You have taken AI-assisted delivery from experiment to something a team relies on daily, in a real organisation with real constraints.
- Genuine architecture depth beyond AI: distributed systems, event-driven design, platform engineering, CI/CD.
- AI-native delivery falls apart without it.
- You can hold your own in a strategy discussion with a CIO in the morning and pair with an engineer on a legacy codebase in the afternoon, and both sides take you seriously.
- Public track record is beneficial: conference talks, writing, open source, community work.
- You are comfortable defending a position in front of an audience that came to disagree.
- You infect people with enthusiasm without overselling.
- You can say "this doesn't work yet" to a client who wants to hear the opposite.
- Enterprise reality is not new to you: regulated environments, legacy landscapes, organisations where change is slow and political.
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What we offer
- Why You'll Love Working at SQUER: Ownership & Responsibility: at SQUER, we believe in empowering our team.
- In our flat hierarchies, your ideas and actions matter more than titles.
- Take the reins, make an impact and grow with us.
- Learn & Grow: Tap into a € 5,000 annual training budget to sharpen your skills and take advantage of our in-house Leadership Academy.
- Join and be part of our active tech community through meetups, hackathons and training sessions.
- Get up to 40 hours per year of additional time off for your personal education.
- Exciting Challenges & Real Impact: Dive into diverse projects where your work truly makes a difference – for our clients and for SQUER.
- Flexibility for Performance: Benefit from hybrid work options, flexible hours, workations within the EU, and additional vacation days – giving you the freedom to perform at your best.
- Tailored Tools for Success: Choose your preferred hardware configuration and leverage our suite of AI tools and licenses (Anthropic, OpenAI, and more) to suit your working style.
- We Value You: Beyond perks and benefits, we offer a competitive annual salary to recognize your exceptional contributions.
- Be part of a thriving team culture: At SQUER, collaboration and connection are at the heart of what we do.
- Through open communication, shared successes, and meaningful team events – including our annual SQUER offsite – we cultivate a culture where everyone feels valued and inspired to grow together.
- A Perks-Packed Workplace: Work in a central office with a spacious terrace and BBQ, enjoy free lunch in the office, MyClubs sports membership, and either a free “Wiener Linien” ticket or a partial contribution to the “Klimaticket”.
- Plus, enjoy free massages, referral bonuses, Corporate Benefits, and JobRad.
- Annual employee presents and a monthly team breakfast add extra value to your work experience.
- We believe in transparent and fair compensation.
- For this role, the annual gross salary ranges between € 75,000 and € 95,000 – the exact placement depends on the seniority level we assess together during the process.
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Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
- 🏝Extra Holidays
- ⏸Educational Leave/Sabbatical
- 🏖️Workation
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
- 🐕Animals Welcome
- 🕺No Dresscode
Higher Take-Home Pay
Health, Fitness & Fun
- 🚲Jobbike
- 💰Team Budget for Free Use
- 🏋🏿♂️Fitness Offers
- 🧘♀️Massage, Yoga, etc.
- 🎳Team Events
- 🎮Gaming Room
- 🤫Relaxation Rooms
- ⚽️Tabletop Soccer, etc.
- 👨🏻🎓Mentor Program
Food & Drink
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About Your Employer
SQUER
Wien, München
We are a full-service provider that thinks agile and solves complex problems with technology. The result is efficient software solutions, successful product developments, and a precise agile evolution of our partner businesses.
Description
- Company Size
- 50-249 Employees
- Founding Year
- 2019
- Language
- German, English
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Hybrid
- Industry
- Consulting, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Distinguished Engineer AI-Native Engineering
- Salary
- 75.000 to 95.000€ gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad.49.093 to 59.747 € net/year
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- Easy Apply
- Easy Apply
- English Only
- English only required