Jr AI Engineer

About this Position At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 50,000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

What You´ll Do

• Build agentic LLM applications (tool-calling, routing, multi-step orchestration) and RAG pipelines over enterprise documents and data.
• Define evaluation criteria (accuracy, groundedness, cost, latency) before building AI features and iterate against them.
• Integrate AI into business interfaces (Teams/chat/voice) and enterprise data platforms (SQL warehouse, NL-to-SQL, BI).
• Develop scalable AI pipelines and integrate models into enterprise systems.
• Evaluate AI use cases, model performance, accuracy, and business impact.
• Collaborate with business, data, and technology teams to identify AI opportunities.
• Implement responsible AI, governance, security, and monitoring practices.
• Optimize AI solutions for scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Stay updated on emerging AI technologies and industry trends.
• Works closely with:
• Business stakeholders
• Data & analytics teams
• Enterprise architecture
• Digital transformation teams
• IT & security

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
• 1 - 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and teamwork abilities.
• Agent frameworks (LangGraph / LangChain) and tool/function-calling.
• Async API development (FastAPI), Pydantic-style validation, modern Python tooling (uv).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD-based deployment.
• Machine Learning & Deep Learning
• Python, SQL, APIs.
• LLMs, Prompt Engineering, RAG architecture.
• Cloud platforms (Azure)
• Problem-solving & stakeholder communication.
• Microsoft Teams bot / conversational-AI development (Bot Framework / Teams AI SDK (nice to have)
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-server architectures for multi-agent systems (nice to have).
• SAP BTP (developer) is a plus
• Git

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Comprehensive Health Insurance for employee + dependents
• Employee Assistance Programme provides a wide range of mental health and wellbeing benefits

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.