About the role
Between AI possibilities and engineering reality, there is usually a gap. Your job is to close it! Some of the most valuable expertise at Etteplan has been built over years of solving complex engineering challenges, designing plants and delivering successful projects. Every day, our engineers make critical decisions, solve complex problems and create value for our customers. Your mission is to identify where AI can support that work, remove unnecessary effort and help engineering teams focus on what they do best.
Responsibilities
•You evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify where they can create tangible value for engineering teams.
•Rather than introducing tools for the sake of innovation, you focus on solutions that improve the way projects are executed.
•You work closely with engineering teams to understand where time is lost, information is difficult to access or repetitive tasks slow projects down.
•Together, you identify high-value use cases and translate them into practical AI-supported solutions that fit naturally into existing engineering workflows.
•You bring AI solutions into live customer projects and validate their impact under real-world conditions.
•You establish baselines, measure outcomes and demonstrate tangible improvements in efficiency, consistency and delivery performance.
•Everything you build is documented, versioned and handed over so that engineering colleagues can run and extend it themselves.
•You support our regional network of AI champions with building blocks and hands-on help.
Requirements
•Understanding of plant engineering, ideally electrical engineering, instrumentation or automation
•Strong affinity for AI, prompting, agents, retrieval and modern AI workflows
•Experience working with Python and integrating data sources, tools and APIs
•Something you have actually shipped into real use, at work or on your own time
•A pragmatic mindset focused on delivery and impact
•The ability to bridge engineering expertise and technology
•Strong collaboration skills and the patience to work side-by-side with experienced domain experts
•Fluent German and English
Nice to have
•Experience in process industries such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals or energy
•Familiarity with engineering software ecosystems and their interfaces
•Experience working with RAG, agents, multimodal AI or retrieval-based solutions
•Experience capturing and operationalising expert knowledge
•Projects, experiments or side initiatives that demonstrate your curiosity and builder mindset
Conditions
•Direct access to decision makers: you report to the Vice President Smart Factory Germany and work closely with our Group AI organisation in Finland.
•You are the first person in this role in Germany. The blank page is part of the offer.
