About this role
<p><strong>IT TAKES REAL INTELLIGENCE TO PIONEER THE ARTIFICIAL KIND.</strong></p> <p>Networks are about more than just IT. They are about connecting people who make things possible. Close teamwork is key to understanding how IT can help integrate processes into systems. We put this insight into practice, and it's part of our success. </p><p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">We drive the AI transformation of the BMW Group with innovative platform services. Our team develops and operates secure, scalable solutions for the entire lifecycle of AI models, enabling sustainable, efficient, and compliance-compliant AI use cases.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">What awaits you?</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">You take strategic ownership of an AI Moderation Layer as a hardened platform service: define architecture standards, security policies, SLAs/SLOs, and ensure global scalability and integration with AI platform services.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Leading the design of a multi-layered defense strategy, you protect against jailbreaks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and tool misuse through advanced input/output scanners, safety filters, and autonomous agents.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">You establish and continuously improve the security lifecycle for LLMs/Agents: threat modeling, attack simulations, red teaming, LLM-specific pentests, automated security assessments, and incident response frameworks.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Acting as a trusted advisor, you collaborate with legal, compliance, and data protection teams to shape governance and regulatory alignment for AI security.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">You drive operational excellence: define KPIs, implement canary rollouts, optimize cost/performance, scale to additional data sources, and ensure 24/7 reliability.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Mentoring and guiding an agile team of engineers and data scientists, you foster best practices in architecture, security, and platform engineering.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Ensuring enterprise-grade quality, you oversee platform services in terms of architecture, code, IT security, compliance, documentation, and operational KPIs.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">What should you bring along?</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">University degree in computer science, mathematics, or a comparable field with an IT focus, or equivalent qualification.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">8+ years of experience in software or platform security and architecture in cloud environments (Azure/AWS), including containerized microservices, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, service mesh, SLOs, high availability, and disaster recovery.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Deep expertise in LLM and agent security: advanced protection against jailbreaks, prompt and indirect injection, input/output scanners, policy engines, and moderation strategies.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Proven leadership in security lifecycle and compliance: threat modeling, red teaming, LLM-specific pentests, automated security assessments in CI/CD, telemetry, alerting, and incident response.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Strong engineering background with architectural decision-making: Python, C# or TypeScript, REST and event-driven systems, observability practices, and experience with agile methods.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; business fluent English required, German is a plus.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor teams in complex, high-security environments.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Would you like to help drive the AI transformation at BMW? Apply now!</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Find out more about Artificial Intelligence at the BMW Group </span><a href="https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/innovation/artificial-intelligence.html"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">here</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Note: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Please apply exclusively online via our career portal. Applications through other channels (especially email) cannot be considered.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">What do we offer?</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Challenging projects with which we shape the mobility of tomorrow together.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Diverse personal and professional development opportunities.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Attractive, fair, and performance-based remuneration.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">High job security.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Annual special payments such as vacation pay, Christmas bonus, and profit sharing.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Flexible working hours including six weeks of annual leave and overtime compensation.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Discounted BMW & MINI conditions.</span></li> <li style="color:black;margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0cm;line-height:normal;margin-right:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Many other benefits at </span><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.bmwgroup.jobs/de/en/about-us/benefits/benefits-professionals.html"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">bmw.jobs/benefits</span></a></span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Earliest starting date: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">from now on<br><strong>Type of employment: </strong>unlimited<br><strong>Working hours: </strong>full-time</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">When you apply, the next steps in the selection process include an online test followed by interviews with the hiring manager (either virtual or in person).</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">You can find helpful tips on your application and the application process <a title="" href="https://www.bmwgroup.jobs/de/en/jobs/apply.html" target="_self">here</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">At BMW Group, we place great value on equal treatment and equal opportunities. Our recruiting decisions are based on the personality, experience, and skills of the applicants. </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">Learn more </span><a href="https://www.bmwgroup.jobs/de/en/about-us/equal-opportunities.html"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">here</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">.</span></p>