Further AI entrepreneurship centers and universities will join.
Our mission: to build a leading AI cluster spanning Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Switzerland - one that turns the region's research excellence into globally relevant companies.
Our philosophy in three words: Research.
The OpportunityWe are hiring an Expert AI Infrastructure & Frontier Models to drive the Build phase.
Your job: create the formats and support structures that let founders and hubs turn academic breakthroughs into frontier AI solutions and the next generation of AI companies - across key hubs and their partner institutions.
Concretely, you build the formats that:Lower the barriers to infrastructure, inference, data, and evaluation, andSpark innovation around frontier models and platforms.
The ChallengeThis is a deliberate hybrid role, and we want to be honest about that up front.
It joins two profiles that rarely coexist in a single person:The deep technical judgment on large-scale AI infrastructure to build and run frontier AI models (pre- and post-training, inference, data engineering, evaluation,.
)The instinct to strategically build solutions with ecosystem partners that help researchers and founders to overcome the hurdlesYou will move between two worlds: deep technical conversations with ML-infrastructure experts from CSCS/ALPS, Jülich, AWS, Google, and NVIDIA, and high-impact discussions with top innovators and early founders emerging from ecosystems like TUM, ETH, and IPAI.
If that combination energizes you, read on.
Your missionDrive hub collaboration: align technical leads across the hubs and lead flagship projects that catalyze real, cross-border cooperation.
Shape frontier model development: Define approaches to frontier model development with partners and founders that address the current challenges.
Build the open innova.