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Working Student: AI Engineer, Agentic Systems (m/f/d)

Posted Oct 10, 2026

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Retorio GmbH

Munich

EnglishWerkstudentWorking student (Werkstudent)InternshipNo German needed

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Salary (estimate)

Full-time reference: about €55,000/year

About this job

Duration: 5 months | Hours: ~20/week

About Retorio

We are an AI start-up in the heart of Munich setting the global standard for AI coaching. Most AI companies aim to replace human work. Retorio does the opposite, empowering enterprise sales and service teams through science-driven AI coaching. The platform runs realistic client conversation simulations and behavioral analysis to build trusted advisors across global teams at companies like Vodafone, Merck, and Daimler Truck.

Tasks

You build agents that run in production. Not demos, not notebooks. Our real-time conversation engine, content generation, and result generation are all agentic systems serving Fortune 500 customers every day, and you own pieces of that: design, deploy, scale, and prove they work.

Our product is grounded in behavioral science research, and we hold our engineering to the same standard. Every change to an agent starts as a hypothesis and ends with a measurement. That means the work is not only prompts and graphs. You will write backend services, run your own deployments, and build the tooling that tells you whether your change actually improved anything.

Your Tasks

Design and build agentic systems: multi-step reasoning, tool calling, MCP, memory, retrieval, structured outputs

Run the research loop: read what is current, form a hypothesis, build the experiment, measure, then decide. Kill your own ideas when the numbers say so

Evaluate rigorously: eval datasets, offline and online scoring, LLM-as-judge, A/B tests, tracing and dashboards. We ship on evidence, not vibes

Build the backend around the agents: Python services and APIs, streaming interfaces, database and schema work

Own the DevOps: containerize, deploy on GCP (Cloud Run, CI/CD), instrument logs, metrics, traces, and alerts, then debug your own production incidents

Scale what you ship: latency, cost per conversation, model routing and fallbacks across providers, graceful failure when a model or a vendor misbehaves

Take features from prototype to production traffic end to end, with the AI engineering team

Enrolled student in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
Strong Python. TypeScript is a plus
Research-driven: you read papers, benchmarks, and model cards critically, and you can tell a real result from a cherry-picked one. You reach for an experiment before an opinion
You have built agents yourself (side project, hackathon, research, internship) and can explain the design decisions
Current on how agentic systems work today: tool calling, MCP, context engineering, orchestration patterns, eval practice, and where each one breaks
Solid backend fundamentals: HTTP APIs, async, databases, version control, testing
Comfortable in the cloud: containers, deployments, logs, metrics, traces. GCP experience is a plus
You do the unglamorous parts too. A flaky deployment pipeline and a slow query are part of making an agent work
You know that an agent working once on your machine is 20% of the job
Fluent in English

Bonus: LangGraph or LangChain experience (any orchestration framework counts, and none is fine if you can reason about agent design); observability and eval tooling such as Langfuse, LangSmith, or Braintrust; streaming and real-time systems (WebSockets, gRPC); infrastructure as code and CI/CD; LLM cost and rate-limit work; published research or a thesis in ML or NLP.

Competitive compensation above market rate
Public transportation benefits
Flexible scheduling around your studies
Real ownership from day one: you deploy to production, not to a sandbox
Direct impact: your work reaches Fortune 500 clients within weeks
Freedom to experiment with frontier models and tooling, with a budget behind it
An engineering environment built to a compliance standard: GDPR and DSGVO compliant, EU AI Act aligned, ISO 27001 certified, EU data residency on GCP
Potential extension beyond the initial engagement

Send your CV and a link to an agent you built. Tell us what broke in production, how you found out, and what you measured to confirm the fix.

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Job facts

Employer: Retorio GmbH
Role: Working Student: AI Engineer, Agentic Systems (m/f/d)
City: Munich
Work mode: not stated
Language: English
Seniority: Werkstudent
Posted: Oct 10, 2026
Source: Arbeitnow

Company rating

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