AI Technical Product Owner for AI Cloud Platform in AI & ML Products team (hybrid)

General Information

Ref#: 4331

Working time: Full-time

Type of contract: Permanent

Date: Friday, May 10, 2024

Country: Romania

Location: Bucharest

Description & Requirements

Your tasks:

Main responsibilities:

Would you like to join the AI Technology team at IONOS (1&1 Internet), Europe’s leading cloud and web hosting provider? We are building a platform that provides AI solutions to customers worldwide, from GenAI / LLM inference, to model training, vector databases and much more!
We are looking for an AI Technical PO with strong drive for our AI & ML Products Team,  Cloud platform, which provides GenAI and Machine Learning Services to customers in IONOS Cloud.
In this role, you will:

• Drive the technical implementation of our AI Model Hosting and wider ML Services product portfolio of IONOS Cloud;
• Work with business stakeholders to assemble the product requirements by understand external and internal customers’ use-cases and identify the best solutions for implementation;
• Lead project implementation with a cross-functional team and work closely with ML Engineers, Developers, Ops, Architects to define the best technical solutions that match our product vision;
• Coordinate business stakeholders and technical implementation teams towards project delivery;
• Create requirements documents such as use cases, business process diagrams and wireframes based on customer needs;
• Keep up with latest models and technologies and help IONOS leverage it from concept to production;
• Find practical solutions to emerging problems;
• Offer transparency and target dates and ensure meeting the deadlines;
• Support in preparing data for training the models or selecting pre-trained models;
• Selecting the best models (performance, speed),  in the area of GenAI, foundation models, LLM according to business needs and industry trends;
• You advise colleagues from various business departments and collaborate to develop solutions in the areas of forecasting, classification, recommender systems or the use of GenAI/LLMs;
• Collaborate with an international organization of software developers and AI enthusiasts.

We appreciate:

We appreciate:

• Proven track record of Product Ownership or Technical Product Management on online hosting or cloud solutions;
• Product-oriented development mindset and a responsible ownership attitude towards software components;
• You have experience in Product Development with classic ML models as well as GenAI-based solutions;
• You are passionate and keep up-to-date with industry the for foundation models: GenAI, LLMs, text2image, speech2text, and more, while helping IONOS leverage them from concept to production;
• You have software development experience in Python or R for building ML / AI applications exposed via REST APIs;
• Experience with specific tools like Jupyter notebooks, Kubeflow, MLflow and similar;
• Studies in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning or a related field;
• Good written and verbal English skills.  

Would be a plus:

• Development skills in Python or R for building ML / AI applications exposed via REST APIs;
• Deep understanding of Data Science and Data Engineering ;
• Overview on REST APIs, systems resilience, concurrency, and scalability concerns;
• Experience with continuous delivery on cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes;
• Openness to take new approaches, learn new concepts and technologies;
• An open collaboration approach and transparent communication.

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

About the company:

As part of United Internet Group, with more than 10,500 employees and 27 million fee-based customer contracts, we are Europe’s leading internet specialist and largest hoster. Building the roof for strong brands such as 1&1, IONOS, STRATO, GMX, WEB DE, MAIL COM, 1&1 Versatel and the Drillisch Online brands, United Internet offers a broad portfolio of Internet access products and cloud applications.
Present in Romania since 2003, we are an Engineering Centre that lives and breathes technology.
Our engineering culture is shaped by the use of cloud native technologies, microservices combined with a DevOps attitude and an innovative mindset. We have a customer centric culture where every colleague is a contributor to our products’ design and success working closely with teams in Bucharest and abroad. Our strength lies in our team spirit and a positive and respectful interaction. In Romania, we have passionate teams sustaining the business segments of Access/Telecommunication, Mail & Media and Hosting, working and enjoying the 1&1 culture together.

Diversity enriches:

Different cultures, nationalities, genders, age groups, sexual orientations, and religions as well as people with disabilities - we encourage diversity. Because only teams that reflect all facets of society offer the best framework conditions for creativity and make a company productive and distinctive. We value diversity and welcome all applications.

Additional information:

About us:

As part of United Internet Group, IONOS is Europe’s leading cloud provider and is setting up the foundation as European Cloud Provider. This includes not just offering storage that can compete with the hyper-scalers, but that offers the full infrastructure stack, including AI & Machine Learning Products. As the largest hosting company in Europe, we manage more than 8 million customer contracts and host over 12 million domains in our own regional data centers in the US and Europe.

About the team:

The AI & ML Products Development department is responsible for building the platform for ML Services products for IONOS Cloud customers, as well as other companies in the United Internet group. Our most recent product development features integration of GenAI foundational models, LLMs and others. We run foundational models on prem in our cloud, such as Meta’s Llama, Mistral or StableDiffusion and offer them via APIs to our cloud customers.We are also working with classic ML models for Computer Vision,  NLP), audio/voice  processing & predictions. Our team is working with technologies such as HugginFace frameworks, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, vLLM, notebooks, MLflow and others. On the platform side, technologies: GoLang, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Python, Hibernate, SQL (PostgreSQL and MySQL) and NOSQL (Redis, MongoDB). We deploy everything to cloud-native Docker / Kubernetes environments, making use of GitHub + Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, and other modern cloud technologies.You will work together with a creative and innovative group of people that love experimenting and learning new things. We are an international team that breaks barriers and solves real customer and business problems.