Team Lead Applied AI Engineering / Forward-Deployed AI 2 Lead (f/m/d)

Job Posting: Team Lead Applied AI Engineering / Forward-Deployed AI 2 Lead

Location: Global

Department: DI AUT IT AIDA AI 2

Job Grade: non senior management / ÜT fähig

Mode of Employment: Permanent / Full-time & Part-time

GRIP: IT-IT-INTEC-TL999 / IT Team Leader

External Posting?: No

Hiring Manger: Belen Bandiera

The official start of this Leadership role is planned for October 1st 2026. As part of our transformation towards ONE Tech Company it plays a key role in shaping the future of our organization.

What we offer you

• Flexible training opportunities for both your professional and personal development that you can tailor to your interests
• (Global) development programs that can be customized according to your wishes and ambitions
• Diverse health and wellness offerings
• A work environment where you can contribute with your whole personality and truly feel like part of Siemens

Since each of over 300,000 team members feels that other benefits are particularly important, and we cannot list our entire benefit portfolio here, you can find more information here.

The individual benefits are subject to regulatory, contractual, or corporate conditions.

At Siemens, our Total Rewards approach is designed to inspire innovation, reward impact, and support your well-being at every stage of your career. From competitive pay and benefits to recognition and devleopment opportunities, we help you thrive both personally and professionally.

Transform the everyday.

In this role, you will lead a team of Applied AI Engineers working closely with Siemens DI functions to identify, design, deliver, and operate impactful AI solutions. You will help stakeholders understand what is possible with AI, translate domain challenges into concrete impactful use cases, and guide solutions from early discovery through prototype, MVP, and production readiness.

How you will make an Impact with us

• Lead a team of Applied AI Engineers delivering impactful AI solutions for Siemens DI business functions.
• Partner with domain/functions experts and business stakeholders to transform internal processes with AI.
• Translate business pain points or business process into clear AI use cases, technical solution concepts, value KPIs, and delivery plans.
• Guide AI solutions from consulting and PoV/prototype through MVP and production-ready operation.
• Provide technical leadership on AI architecture, software engineering, evaluation, monitoring, and security.
• Coach AI engineers in both technical excellence and stakeholder-facing consulting.
• Build trust with senior stakeholders by explaining AI opportunities, limitations, risks, and value potential.
• Ensure AI solutions are robust, secure, maintainable, compliant, and measurable.
• Collaborate with DI IT, HUB, platform teams, cybersecurity, legal, worker-council stakeholders, product teams, and domain organizations.

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, or software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience leading AI engineers/ Data Scientist, or complex cross-functional technical software initiatives.
• Proven hands-on experience designing, building, and delivering AI/ML solutions cloud first, including evaluation, guardrails, and observability.
• Strong software engineering foundation, including Python, APIs, data pipelines, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production operations in the cloud.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both executives and AI engineers.
• Strong business-value orientation and ability to define measurable business outcomes and drive the technical implantation to measure them after go live.
• Experience in enterprise environments with security, compliance, data governance, and integration constraints.
• High ownership, pragmatic judgment, and the ability to create clarity in ambiguous situations.
• In this role, your focus will be on sales (configuration, pricing, quoting, sales ops & performance) related business functions and SHERPA related use cases.

You are the right person if

• You can walk into a domain conversation, understand the real process, and identify where AI could create value.
• You are obsessed with creating real measurable impact with AI
• You can inspire stakeholders with what is possible, helping them transform the way they work in their departments with AI, while staying grounded in feasibility, data, risk, and measurable impact.
• You can guide your team in architecture and challenge engineering decisions.
• You enjoy developing people and raising the engineering bar.
• You want to build AI solutions that move beyond demos and become sustainable, production-ready capabilities.

Languages: Fluent in English, additional languages are a plus

You are much more than your qualifications, and we believe in the potential of every single candidate. We look forward to getting to know you!

Please note, this position will be based in the Siemens location where the selected candidate currently is located. The role has been assessed as a level (TL999). The actual compensation range will vary based on work location, applicable salary structure, experience, qualifications, and internal equity. Candidates will receive compensation information relevant to their location during the recruitment process in accordance with local legal requirements and Siemens compensation practices. For further information regarding the compensation details that apply to you and your country, please contact the recruiter directly.

At Siemens, our Total Rewards approach is designed to inspire innovation, reward impact, and support your well-being at every stage of your career. From competitive pay and benefits to recognition and development opportunities, we help you thrive both personally and professionally.

Our Commitment to Equity and Inclusion in our Diverse Global Workforce. At Siemens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values your skills and provides equitable opportunities to progress. For us, competitiveness goes hand in hand with diverse teams and a shared sense of belonging. Our technology is powered by innovation, fueled by the diverse thinking and the unique merits of our people. We welcome you to bring your authentic self and transform the everyday, for everyone, together with us.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from persons with disabilities. In the case of equal qualifications, severely disabled applicants and applicants with equivalent status will be given preference About us

Siemens Digital Industries Automation (DI AUT) is one of the world’s leading providers of industrial automation. Our innovative automation portfolio enables companies of all sizes in both the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their automation—and thus their digital transformation—across the entire value chain. This allows our customers to increase productivity and flexibility and become future-ready through technologies such as software-defined systems and artificial intelligence. Siemens Xcelerator—the open digital business platform—helps to implement this more easily, quickly, and at scale. Together with partners and a broad ecosystem, Siemens supports its customers on their journey toward becoming a Digital Enterprise. otc2026di