Lead Software Engineer – AI for HR (m/f/d)
Company Description
Job Description
SIXT is rethinking HR around AI, and you build it. HR leadership sets the priorities; you decide how to deliver them and you ship them: agents that match applicants, answer employee questions correctly, and take a contract change from request to payroll without a ticket.
This is an individual contributor role with full technical ownership. No direct reports and no plan to get any: your seniority shows in the technical calls you make, the code you ship and the standards others adopt. You belong to our software engineering organization, so you get the platform teams, code review culture and engineering peers of a large tech org, pointed at a problem most of them never touch. HR is your customer, and every SIXT employee worldwide feels what you ship. Decisions live in short design docs, and releases go out weekly behind evals.
If you'd rather ship agents that thousands of employees rely on than demo them in a sandbox, apply now and join Team Orange.
YOUR ROLE AT SIXT
- You take the key technical decisions for AI in HR: how agents connect to our HR core, recruiting and payroll platforms, where data lives, and which actions an agent may take on its own. You build on AWS, LLM APIs and SIXT's internal AI platforms
- You write production code every week, with Claude Code and LLM APIs as everyday tools, and you set the engineering bar for the engineers bui
