# Careers at Explicio: AI, platform and Box fleet
https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/
Last updated: 2026-11-09

> 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.

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.
Leadership & C-suite ↓Software & engineering ↓[Explicio® Campus & research](https://www.explicio.com/en/explicio-campus/)

- **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.

- CULTURE 01 Remote-first with roots in Detmold We 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.
- CULTURE 02 Professional setup & top-tier equipment No 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.
- CULTURE 03 System over person We 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 hub Work 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 haggling No 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 publish You 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 culture Those 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 scaling We 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 problems We 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 honesty No 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 perfectionism Code 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.

CTO DETMOLD / 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.
[Enquire about the mandate →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Chief%20Technology%20Officer%20(CTO)%20%2F%20VP%20Engineering%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/cto-vp-engineering/)

COO DETMOLD / 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.
[Enquire about the mandate →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Chief%20Operating%20Officer%20(COO)%20%2F%20VP%20Operations%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/coo-vp-operations/)

CCO REMOTE / 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.
[Enquire about the mandate →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Chief%20Commercial%20Officer%20(CCO)%20%2F%20Head%20of%20Enterprise%20Sales%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/cco-head-of-enterprise-sales/)

CFO DETMOLD / 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.
[Enquire about the mandate →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Chief%20Financial%20Officer%20(CFO)%20%2F%20VP%20Finance%20%26%20Compliance%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/cfo-vp-finance-compliance/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Lead%20Backend%20Architect%20(TypeScript%20%2F%20Python)%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/lead-backend-architect/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Senior%20Backend%20Developer%20(FastAPI%20%2F%20PostgreSQL%20%2F%20Docker)%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/senior-backend-developer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Distributed%20Systems%20%2F%20Grid%20Engineer%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/distributed-systems-grid-engineer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Senior%20Frontend%20Engineer%20(React%20%2F%20Vite%20%2F%20TanStack)%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/senior-frontend-engineer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Product%20Designer%20(UI%2FUX%20%26%20Design%20Systems)%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/product-designer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Retrieval%20%26%20Knowledge-Graph%20Engineer%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/retrieval-knowledge-graph-engineer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Computer%20Vision%20%26%20Multimodal%20Engineer%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/computer-vision-multimodal-engineer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20SecOps%20%26%20DevOps%20Engineer%20(Linux%20%2F%20Docker%20%2F%20Edge%20Hardware)%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/secops-devops-engineer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20QA%20%26%20Automation%20Test%20Engineer%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/qa-automation-test-engineer/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Enterprise%20Solution%20Architect%20%2F%20Pre-Sales%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/enterprise-solution-architect/)

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.
[Apply →](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere%3A%20Technical%20Customer%20Success%20Manager%20(m%2Ff%2Fd)) [View posting →](https://www.explicio.com/en/careers/technical-customer-success-manager/)

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
- 01 No 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.
- 02 For developers & researchers: Simply send us your GitHub profile, published papers or a project you are proud of.
- 03 For theses: Send us a short project sketch (abstract) of your topic or ask about open topics.

[Apply now: career@explicio.com](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Karriere) [Enquire about a thesis / research project](mailto:career@explicio.com?subject=Campus)

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 →](https://www.explicio.com/en/karriere-datenschutz/)

LOCATION OPTIONS Detmold hub Hardware lab & core office
100 % remote Across Europe with regular team off-sites