CAREERS & RESEARCH AT EXPLICIO®

Build Europe's cognitive infrastructure with us.

We transform unstructured data streams into relational knowledge graphs and, with the Explicio® Grid, create a sovereign, decentralised alternative to central US data centres. We offer maximum creative freedom: work fully flexibly, remote from anywhere in Europe, or at our technology hub in Detmold, Germany.

Explicio is hiring for eleven roles and four leadership mandates on a real stack: Fastify and TypeScript plus Python on Postgres, React on the front end, vLLM, Whisper and Tesseract on NVIDIA GB10 hardware. The location is Detmold or remote across Europe, starting by arrangement.

Start
by arrangement
Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote, across Europe
Application
by e-mail with the subject “Karriere” – no form, no portal
Salary
We name the range before the first conversation.
CULTURE & WAY OF WORKING · WHY EXPLICIO®?

Engineering discipline instead of empty hype.

  1. CULTURE01Remote-first with roots in DetmoldWe measure output, architectural elegance and problem-solving skill – not presence. Our Detmold site serves as a high-end test lab for our on-premises hardware (Explicio® Boxes) and as a strategic meeting point.
  2. CULTURE02Professional setup & top-tier equipmentNo sluggish IT approval process. Every employee receives state-of-the-art equipment (Mac Studio / M-series Max, dual 4K displays) plus a flexible mobility or home-office budget.
  3. CULTURE03System over personWe document and systematise our own work with Explicio®. No micro-politics, no pointless status meetings – deterministic workflows and ownership instead.
WORKING AT EXPLICIO®

High ownership. Real problems. Zero bureaucracy.

We are not building yet another SaaS toy for colourful sticky notes, but the cognitive infrastructure for Europe's industrial and experiential knowledge. Whoever joins us shapes a fundamental system from day one. We offer real impact instead of corporate inertia – and expect entrepreneurial bite in return.

OUR SIDE OF THE DEAL

What we offer

  • Maximum creative freedom (greenfield & impact)You are not stepping into entrenched legacy structures; you actively help build the core systems and the leadership team. Your architecture and strategy decisions shape the company for years.
  • Radical remote-first with a high-end hubWork where you are most productive – 100 % remote across Europe or at our hardware and test hub in Detmold. No control meetings, no presence culture: what counts are working systems and results.
  • Hardware without budget hagglingNo sluggish IT approvals: you choose your preferred top-tier setup (e.g. MacBook Pro M-Max, Studio Displays or custom Linux workstations). For research, model bake-offs and training our own decision models you have direct access to GPU boxes in our own Grid.
  • Academic networking & freedom to publishYou can take part in conferences, accompany your own papers or help shape university courses. We are currently building cooperations with universities and chairs – you do not have to wait for that.
  • Psychological safety & a real learning cultureThose who break new ground make mistakes. With us, failed experiments and wrong assumptions are not punished but systematised as “lessons learned” in our own knowledge graph.
  • Economic substance & sustainable scalingWe fund the build-up ourselves and prepare our European scaling from a position of commercial strength – without dependence on short-term flashes in the pan.
YOUR SIDE OF THE DEAL

What we expect

  • A radical ownership mindset (“act like an owner”)We are not looking for ticket-takers waiting for instructions. You see an architectural gap, a customer problem or a scaling risk? You analyse it, make a proposal and solve it on your own responsibility.
  • System before person (excellent documentation)We live our own philosophy: “eat your own dog food”. Your knowledge, your interface contracts and your architecture decisions must be deterministic, understandable and documented in the system – so that we can scale as an organisation without depending on individuals.
  • Bite for deep tech & real problemsWe crack hard nuts: multimodal ingestion, unstructured data volumes, edge hardware and decentralised compute grids. You want to dig deep into complex matter instead of merely wiring up standard web APIs.
  • Plain speech & intellectual honestyNo political games, no sugar-coating failures. If an approach does not scale or an idea was rubbish, we say so – factually, directly and respectfully.
  • Pragmatism over theoretical perfectionismCode that does not run in production helps nobody. We value runnable, robust prototypes and lean solutions more than castles in the air theorised for months.
EXECUTIVE SEARCH · BUILDING THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Leadership here means architecture, strategy and market presence.

Four mandates, open for applications now, start by arrangement. We fill the technical leadership first, then the engineering positions.

CTODETMOLD / REMOTE

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / VP Engineering (m/f/d)

Responsibility: Overall architecture of the platform – TypeScript gateways, Python workers, Postgres at the core, model routing between EU cloud and Box –, leadership of the engineering teams and responsibility for the box stack from the hardware to the signed release.

COODETMOLD / HYBRID

Chief Operating Officer (COO) / VP Operations (m/f/d)

Responsibility: Operation and scaling of business processes, supply chain and rollout of the Explicio® Boxes, audits and evidence (ISMS, CRA file), interface between engineering and customer.

CCOREMOTE / DACH REGION

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) / Head of Enterprise Sales (m/f/d)

Responsibility: Building enterprise sales for mid-sized companies, industry and the public sector; a partner network of trade associations and system integrators – organic first, without an advertising budget until the first customer revenue.

CFODETMOLD / REMOTE

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) / VP Finance & Compliance (m/f/d)

Responsibility: Commercial steering, accounting for the Box Service model (48-month plan, service instead of purchase), review of funding options, liaison with tax advisers and legal counsel.

SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGY

Every core discipline of a deep-tech software house.

11 positions · 4 mandates · start by arrangement
A · CORE ENGINEERING & BACKEND
Lead Backend Architect (TypeScript / Python) (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Postgres as core, queue and vector space (pgvector), tenant isolation via row-level security, Fastify/TypeScript gateways, Python workers (FastAPI in the ai-gateway), model routing between EU cloud and Box.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

Senior Backend Developer (FastAPI / PostgreSQL / Docker) (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Asynchronous ingestion pipelines, typed edges in the knowledge graph, row-level security, idempotency at every write, the golden set as a regression wall.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

Distributed Systems / Grid Engineer (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Capacity API and scheduler of the Explicio® Grid, box fleet with Docker Compose, TPM attestation, signed A/B updates with automatic rollback, load tests with a thousand virtual boxes.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

B · FRONTEND & VISUALISATION
Senior Frontend Engineer (React / Vite / TanStack) (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Workbench with widgets, our own canvas knowledge graph in 2D and 3D, WebSocket events, design tokens, 37 languages including right-to-left.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

Product Designer (UI/UX & Design Systems) (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Making complex knowledge structures intuitively graspable, flat design to CI guidelines (“scientific elegance”), one token system for workbench, operations portal and website.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

C · RETRIEVAL, GRAPH & MEDIA UNDERSTANDING
Retrieval & Knowledge-Graph Engineer (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Hybrid retrieval (vector + full text, RRF), edge typing, evidence chain per answer, bake-offs against the golden set – selection instead of training for the language model; we train our decision models ourselves.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

Computer Vision & Multimodal Engineer (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Pipelines for documents, photos, video and speech: vLLM with vision models, Whisper and Tesseract on NVIDIA GB10; page windows, stitching, scene detection.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

D · SECURITY, DEVOPS & QUALITY
SecOps & DevOps Engineer (Linux / Docker / Edge Hardware) (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Hardening of the Explicio® Box, TPM-bound identity, cosign-signed releases with a software bill of materials per image, registry, Caddy, building the ISMS on the way to ISO 27001.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

QA & Automation Test Engineer (m/f/d)Details

Focus: End-to-end walls against the real stack, golden set, load-test harness (fleetload), contract drift checks, Playwright across three apps.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

E · GTM & CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Enterprise Solution Architect / Pre-Sales (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Integration of the Explicio® Box into customer networks, channel connection (Teams, Slack, e-mail, messengers), bulk import from archives and mailboxes, collaboration with system integrators.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

Technical Customer Success Manager (m/f/d)Details

Focus: Onboarding and setup assistant, finding knowledge islands, accompanying handovers when people leave, translating feedback into product tickets.

Location
Detmold hub or 100 % remote (across Europe)
Start
by arrangement
Salary
We name the salary range before the first conversation.

We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of gender, origin, age, religion, disability or sexual identity.

DIRECT CONTACT & ENTRY

No standard CV. Show us how you think.

We are expanding our team strategically: first the technical leadership, then the engineering positions. All positions are open for applications now, start by arrangement. If it fits professionally but not yet in terms of timing, we stay in touch – with your consent – via the talent pool.

THE PROCESS
  1. 01No tedious HR screening. Your submission lands directly on the desk of the operational management or the relevant team. Applications are read by a human – Explicio does not rate people, not even its own applicants.
  2. 02For developers & researchers: Simply send us your GitHub profile, published papers or a project you are proud of.
  3. 03For theses: Send us a short project sketch (abstract) of your topic or ask about open topics.
TALENT POOL · YOUR CONSENT

If you would like us to keep your documents beyond the current procedure, include this sentence in your e-mail:

I agree that my documents may remain in the talent pool of TACP Operations GmbH & Co. KG for up to 24 months; I can withdraw this consent at any time.

Without this sentence we delete your documents six months after the procedure has ended. What we store, where and for how long is set out in the privacy notice for applicants (German). Privacy notice for applicants →

LOCATION OPTIONS
Detmold hubHardware lab & core office
100 % remoteAcross Europe with regular team off-sites
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