Would you like to play an active and hands-on role in shaping the development of IPAI?
As an innovation platform for applied AI, we pursue the goal of successfully bringing artificial intelligence into use in companies and institutions. With IPAI, we have set ourselves the ambition of becoming the “Global Home of Human AI”. We are creating a space for successful AI transformation and collaboration, generating further momentum for a true AI hotspot in Europe.
You are responsible for IPAI’s infrastructure substrate: the compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and operational foundations that everything else depends on. You translate strategic goals, regulatory requirements, and ecosystem needs into concrete, implementable infrastructure architectures, and ensure they are built and operated to a high standard.
Your Tasks
- Own IPAI’s infrastructure architecture end to end, defining target architectures for compute (including GPUs), storage, networking, identity, security, and isolation models.
- Translate strategic, legal, and governance requirements into concrete systems, balancing performance, cost, sovereignty, compliance, and usability.
- Specify and drive implementation of infrastructure solutions, ensuring architectures are implementable, operable, and resilient in practice.
- Act as the primary technical interface to internal IT, external providers, and partners, aligning IPAI’s needs with enterprise and public-sector realities.
- Define operational and security standards, including access models, monitoring, reliability expectations, and auditability.
- Continuously evolve the infrastructure foundation, anticipating future needs of IPAI services and members while maintaining stability and trust.
Your profile
- Extensive experience as an Infrastructure Architect, Platform Architect, or senior infrastructure engineer in complex, regulated, or multi-stakeholder environments.
- Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale infrastructure systems that are used by multiple teams or external users.
- Experience working with public-sector, enterprise IT, or regulated industries is highly desirable.
Deep understanding of modern infrastructure stacks, including cloud and/or on-prem environments, networking, storage, identity and access management, and security architectures. - Hands-on experience with infrastructure implementation and automation (e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform or similar tooling).
- Strong grasp of reliability, scalability, observability, and cost-management principles.
- Ability to design clear platform interfaces and constraints that enable higher-level services to operate effectively.
- Strong systems thinker with excellent judgment in making and explaining trade-offs.
Credible communicator across engineering, legal, governance, and executive audiences.
Our offer
As a growing company, we operate in a highly dynamic environment characterized by constant change. We are looking for top talent eager to drive our ambitious goals forward with significant creative freedom and a passion for excellence. If this resonates with you, apply today!
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- Corporate Culture. At the heart of our community, our culture is defined by trust in our employees, collaboration with strong partners, and a high level of dynamism. We strive for diversity and embrace a modern approach to work-life blending.
- Ecosystem. In addition to an attractive compensation package and a workspace equipped with state-of-the-art technology and full support for agile working, we are already bringing our vision to life. Together with numerous partners and members, we live this vision every day at our location in the heart of Heilbronn.
- Responsibility. As a pioneer and a founding member of the IPAI team, you represent the success of our vision – in Baden-Württemberg, across Europe, and beyond.
- Team. To turn our vision of a world-class European ecosystem into reality – right here in Heilbronn – we believe in the power of working together on-site. At the same time, to help you dynamically shape both your professional and private life, flexible working hours and mobile work options are a natural part of our setup.
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We are looking forward to your application!
Schwarz Corporate Solutions KG · Larissa Bühler · Referenz-No. 2234
Im Zukunftspark 11/13, 74076 Heilbronn
www.jobs.schwarz
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