Distinguished Engineer (AI-Native Engineering)
Squer Solutions GmbH12 hours ago
Vienna, AustriaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set SQUER’s technical direction for AI-native delivery, including practices, reference architectures, guardrails, and definitions of done for agent output.
- Prototype pipelines, agents, and internal tooling and validate what works in real enterprise environments.
- Advise CTOs, principal engineers, account leads, and strategic clients on AI-native delivery and enterprise governance.
- Drive internal AI enablement through learning paths, dogfooding, and engineering practices across more than 100 engineers.
- Evaluate models, tools, and agent frameworks and make technology recommendations with the TechOffice.
- Own the technical side of partner relationships and certifications.
- Represent SQUER through keynotes, publications, conferences, meetups, pitches, and RFPs.
- Coach and pair with Leads and Principals to increase organizational technical capability.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience with agentic engineering, including coding agents, spec-driven development, MCP, orchestration, and evaluation.
- Experience taking AI-assisted delivery from experimentation to daily team use in a real organization with practical constraints.
- Strong architecture depth in distributed systems, event-driven design, platform engineering, and software delivery practices.
- Ability to work effectively with CIOs and enterprise leaders as well as pair with engineers on legacy codebases.
- Public technical track record through conference talks, writing, open source, or community work is beneficial.
- Ability to communicate uncertainty honestly, defend technical positions publicly, and avoid overselling immature technology.
- Experience working in regulated environments, legacy landscapes, and organizations where change is slow and political.
Benefits
- €5,000 annual training budget, an in-house Leadership Academy, access to tech community activities, and up to 40 hours per year of additional time off for personal education.
- Hybrid work options, flexible hours, EU workations, and additional vacation days.
- Choice of preferred hardware configuration and access to AI tools and licenses including Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Central office with terrace and BBQ, free office lunch, MyClubs sports membership, and either a free Wiener Linien ticket or partial Klimaticket contribution.
- Free massages, referral bonuses, Corporate Benefits, JobRad, annual employee presents, monthly team breakfast, and an annual SQUER offsite.
- Annual gross salary of €75,000–€95,000, with exact placement determined during the hiring process.
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About Squer Solutions GmbH
Squer Solutions GmbH is a Vienna-based software engineering and consulting firm that builds custom digital products and scalable platform solutions for clients via agile delivery. Services include end-to-end product development, cloud and platform engineering, security, DevOps, and agile enablement with team upskilling. Founded in 2019 and independently owned, it works as a services partner across IT and fintech, helping organizations implement and evolve software systems.