AI Enablement (f/m/d)

As we enter our next stage of growth, we are looking for an exceptional Applied AI Engineer to join our Engineering team, reporting directly to Yurii Opryshko and working closely together with our SVP Engineering Roberto Fajardo, as well as our business functions. This is a senior individual contributor role at the frontier of how Upvest leverages AI to fundamentally change how our teams work. AI is reshaping how financial infrastructure companies operate — and at Upvest, we're moving fast. As our first dedicated Applied AI hire, you won't be joining a function: you'll be building one.

Responsibilities

Identify where AI creates the most leverage across the business; select and integrate the right tooling; ship solutions that teams actually use; connect AI tools to Upvest's internal systems, integrating Claude and other LLMs with internal tools, APIs, and data sources via the Model Context Protocol (MCP); build lightweight integrations where needed; identify high-impact automation opportunities; build end-to-end workflows using tools like n8n; work 1:1 with others across the business as an in-house AI consultant; run discovery sessions, write internal playbooks, and coach colleagues on prompt engineering and AI tooling

Requirements

Hands-on experience shipping AI agents and building end-to-end automations with tools like n8n; Experience building or working with MCP servers and connecting LLMs to internal tools, APIs and data sources; Experience upskilling non-technical teams on AI tooling and driving real adoption; Ability to define ROI, iterate, and ship without over-engineering; Ability to connect technical work to business outcomes; Ability to run discovery sessions and present confidently to senior, non-technical audiences; Experience in fintech or closely adjacent regulated industry with compliance constraints; 5+ years in a scale-up in roles such as solutions engineer, technical consultant, AI product engineer, or similar; Based in Berlin (mandatory); English required

Nice to have

German

Benefits

€20,000 per year for best-in-class AI tools; €1,500 annual budget for personal and professional training; 30 days of annual leave; sports benefits; confidential professional coaching; flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year; participation in employee equity program; flexible work environment; company-wide events such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and holiday party