Head of AI (m/f/d) Photonic Computing & AI Automation

Your Responsibilities 

• Strategic AI Architecture: Define and execute the company-wide AI automation strategy, building and maintaining a cutting-edge internal tool stack (LLMs, agents, workflows, and APIs) tailored to Q.ANT's scaling needs.

• High-Impact Automation: Identify, prioritize, and implement pragmatic AI solutions across all departments—ranging from sales ops, finance, HR, and reporting to engineering and code generation.

• Workflow Acceleration: Partner closely with technical teams to design and implement AI-driven development workflows, including test automation and automated documentation architecture.

• Enablement & Evangelism: Act as the internal champion for AI literacy. Educate, train, and provide playbooks to empower all employees to effectively and safely leverage AI in their daily work.

• Governance & Compliance: Establish strict best practices for prompting, tooling, and safe AI usage, ensuring data security, privacy, and full compliance across the organization.

• Impact & ROI Monitoring: Define and track concrete success metrics (e.g., process cycle times, engineering velocity, AI tool adoption rates) to ensure a strong focus on ROI and operational speed.

• Professional Experience: You possess 5–10 years of experience building, applying, or deploying AI/ML systems or software engineering solutions in a practical, product-focused, or operations-driven environment.

• Technical & Tool Fluency: You have deep hands-on experience with modern AI tools, large language models (LLMs), AI agents, automation frameworks, and API integrations.

• Startup Mindset: You have a proven track record of executing fast in rapid, resource-constrained, or deep-tech environments, prioritizing speed over perfection and impact over elegance.

• Analytical Leadership: You are highly organized and analytical with a lean process focus, capable of translating complex business bottlenecks into agile, scalable AI solutions.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: You possess exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to align diverse technical teams and cross-functional business stakeholders.

• Communication Excellence: Fluency in written and spoken English is required; proficiency in German is a distinct advantage for local stakeholder alignment.

• We hire for attitude and train for skills.

• We encourage self-responsibility and accelerate professional development.

• We move fast and encourage experimentation.

• You have the opportunity to be part of developing breakthrough photonic computing technology and have a lasting impact on the future of computing.

• You can be part of a passionate international, highly skilled cross-functional team.

• You will have access to the founders of the company.