Engineering for digital security.
Cybersecurity, AI and infrastructure. Three disciplines, one team. At GermanAI Defense you work on tasks that combine technical depth, responsibility and impact.
How to apply.
1. Submit your application
Choose a position and send your documents through the online form on this page. Applications by email or mail aren’t processed through the regular workflow. Everything runs encrypted online.
2. Get acquainted
Within 5 business days, we’ll reach out for a first conversation, by phone, video, or in person. In the second round we dive into technical topics and align on next steps together.
3. Contract & onboarding
If it fits both technically and personally, we’ll send your contract offer by email. Your first day at GAD: hardware of your choice, a team buddy, and a structured 4-week onboarding.
Our open positions (10).
Offices in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and Dortmund, 100% remote possible. Click a position for details, or apply directly below.
(Junior) Penetration Tester (f/m/d)
Penetration Tests against Web, API, cloud, and Active Directory. Solid, documented, with a clear remediation path.
Your responsibilities
- Conduct penetration tests against Web, API, cloud, Active Directory, mobile apps, and internal networks
- Contribute to red team engagements and adversary simulation, including OSINT, phishing, and initial-access techniques
- Contribute to our AI-powered pentesting product RedMentis, from attack-path models to reporting automation
- Produce technical reports and management summaries including CVSS scoring and remediation roadmaps
- Support customers with remediation, re-tests, and hardening plans
- Take part in internal practice labs, tool reviews, and tradecraft sessions, guided by experienced pentesters in the team
Your profile
- You hold a degree in computer science, IT security, business informatics, or a comparable field. Alternatively, a completed apprenticeship as an IT specialist (systems integration) with relevant continuing education.
- You bring first hands-on experience in offensive security, for example from internships, working-student roles, CTFs, or your own lab environments (Hack The Box, TryHackMe). Certifications like OSCP are a plus, not a must
- Deep understanding of web apps, Active Directory, cloud (AWS / Azure), and network protocols, plus confident hands-on use of tools like Burp Suite, Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, and BloodHound
- Your way of working is marked by proactivity, structured accuracy, and high quality of output
- You’re a team player and enjoy working with a dedicated engineering team
- Very good written and spoken German and English round out your profile
What awaits you
- Engagements from industry, critical infrastructure, and the public sector
- A real engineering team. Not consulting slides, code, reports, and patches
- Direct influence on the RedMentis product. If something’s missing, you build it
- Fair pay, transparent career paths, training budget
Your benefits with us
- Hybrid model (2 days office Frankfurt region, 3 days remote) or fully remote in the EU
- Hardware of your choice, EU data residency, no forced US cloud
- Certifications (OSEP, CRTO, CRTP) covered
- 30 days’ vacation, company pension, public transport subsidy
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AI / ML Engineer - LLM integration (f/m/d)
Open-source LLMs on European infrastructure. Production-ready, not demo notebooks.
Your responsibilities
- Design and implementation of AI pipelines for customer workloads (anomaly detection, classification, retrieval-augmented generation)
- Integration of open-source LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and others) into production on-premises and EU cloud environments
- Optimization of inference performance and GPU utilization through quantization, vLLM, and TensorRT-LLM
- Build evaluation frameworks and A/B tests for continuous assessment of model quality
- ML-Ops: monitoring, versioning, retraining, drift detection, and data pipelines (ETL)
- Close collaboration with the cybersecurity team on AI-powered detection and response
Your profile
- You hold a degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, mathematics, or a comparable STEM field
- You have several years of professional experience in ML engineering or data science
- Confident with PyTorch, Transformers, vLLM, or TensorRT, plus experience with LLM fine-tuning, RAG architectures, and vector databases
- A rigorous understanding of data protection and EU compliance in AI pipelines
- Your way of working is curious and grounded in clean engineering. You’re a team player and enjoy working with an engineering team.
- Very good German and English round out your profile
What awaits you
- AI use cases with real data, not demo notebooks
- Full control over your tech stack: Python, FastAPI, EU GPU servers, open-source models
- Help shape the GAD AI Service platform from day one
- Structured architecture discussions, not buzzword-bingo meetings
Your benefits with us
- Hybrid model or fully remote in the EU, GPU hardware of your choice
- EU compliance over US cloud convenience
- Conference attendance and training budget
- 30 days’ vacation, company pension, public transport subsidy
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Datacenter Operations Engineer (f/m/d)
High-availability datacenters. You build infrastructure that still holds up in 10 years.
Your responsibilities
- Build, operate, and maintain sovereign datacenters at EU sites (Tier-III standard or higher)
- Ownership of power supply, cooling, network backbone, and monitoring
- Capacity planning and scaling of server, storage, and network infrastructure
- Incident response, root-cause analysis, and implementation of automation pipelines (Ansible, Terraform)
- 24/7 NOC on-call in rotation, plus management of hardware suppliers and network carriers
- Participate in audits and preparation for ISO 27001 / TISAX / BSI-IT-Grundschutz certifications
Your profile
- You hold a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, business informatics, or a comparable field. Alternatively, a completed apprenticeship as an IT specialist (systems integration) or IT system electronics technician.
- You have several years of professional experience in datacenter operations (Tier-III standard or higher)
- Solid knowledge of BGP, OSPF, MPLS, EVPN, and spine-leaf topologies, plus experience with UPS, HVAC, and fire-protection systems
- Your way of working is pragmatic, solution-oriented, and reliable
- You’re a team player and enjoy working with an operations team
- Willingness to travel between sites rounds out your profile
What awaits you
- Participate in building a new facility from the ground up
- Focus on sustainable cooling, water recovery, and energy efficiency
- Direct contact with engineering, not just maintenance
- Structured shifts with on-call allowance
Your benefits with us
- Travel and accommodation reimbursement between sites
- High-quality workshop and diagnostic tools
- Certifications (Cisco, Juniper, Schneider Electric) covered
- 30 days’ vacation, company pension, public transport subsidy
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Compliance & Privacy Lead (f/m/d)
Data protection and compliance as engineering requirements. You design, not just review.
Your responsibilities
- Ownership of GDPR compliance, TDDDG, ISO 27001, and continuous ISMS maintenance
- Drive NIS-2 Directive and EU AI Act implementation across the company and customer projects
- BAFA foreign-trade and dual-use checks for customer engagements
- Customer DPIAs, DPA negotiations, risk assessments, and audit support
- Train and raise awareness among employees on data protection and information security
- Interface between management, engineering, and external legal counsel
Your profile
- You hold a degree in law, business law, or business informatics, or a comparable qualification with certifications such as CIPP/E, DSB-TÜV, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
- You have several years of professional experience in data protection and/or IT compliance, ideally in B2B tech
- Deep understanding of GDPR, TDDDG, and national data-protection laws, plus experience with ISO 27001 or comparable frameworks
- Your work is precise and structured. You hold your ground confidently in negotiations, including with management and external legal counsel.
- You’re a team player and enjoy collaborating across engineering, legal, and sales
- Negotiation-level German and strong English round out your profile
What awaits you
- Direct reporting line to management
- Compliance is part of product strategy, not a roadblock
- Work on EU AI Act implementation and datacenter compliance
- Clear topics with measurable impact on customer acquisition
Your benefits with us
- Training budget for CIPP, DSB, ISO Lead Auditor
- Access to engineering reality, not an abstract compliance silo
- Hybrid model or fully remote in the EU, company pension
- 30 days’ vacation, public transport subsidy
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(Junior) Sales Manager (f/m/d)
Your start in B2B sales. You learn our solutions from the ground up and bring home your first own deals.
Your responsibilities
- You reach out to prospects from our CRM, run first calls, and find out where their pain really is
- You present our services (cybersecurity, GRC & compliance, AI Services) and the solutions MiRA and RedMentis clearly, also for non-technical people
- You guide smaller deals from first enquiry to signature, with a senior at your side
- You keep contacts, meetings, and notes clean in the CRM and your pipeline up to date
- You work closely with marketing and the experienced sales colleagues and grow with every conversation
Your profile
- First experience in sales, customer contact, or selling (also from working-student roles, internships, or side jobs) or a genuine drive to learn it
- You enjoy talking to people, you listen, and a no does not throw you off
- Technology does not scare you, you want to understand what we sell
- Structure and reliability: you keep your promises and document cleanly
- Negotiation-level German, good English
What awaits you
- Structured onboarding with a dedicated mentor from the senior team
- A clear career path from junior to sales manager
- A product portfolio you can sell with a clear conscience
- Fast, honest feedback instead of rigid hierarchy
Your benefits with us
- Attractive base salary plus uncapped commission on your deals
- 30 days of vacation, company pension, public-transport subsidy
- Modern equipment, hybrid working
- Training budget and access to the GAD Academy
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Senior Sales Manager (f/m/d)
You own the full sales cycle, from first outreach to signed contract, and build your own book of business.
Your responsibilities
- You win new customers for our entire portfolio and close deals with mid-market and larger organisations
- You steer complex sales processes with multiple stakeholders, from discovery through proposal and proof of concept to closing
- You negotiate terms and contracts at eye level with management, IT leadership, and procurement
- You develop existing customers and unlock cross- and upselling potential across the full range of services
- You pass on your knowledge to the juniors and help sharpen our sales process
- You manage pipeline and forecasts cleanly in the CRM
Your profile
- Several years of experience in B2B sales, ideally for explanation-heavy IT, software, or security solutions
- Proven closing strength: you have won deals across the full cycle yourself
- You move confidently between technical and commercial stakeholders
- Self-drive, dependability, and a good sense for the right next step
- Negotiation-level German and English
What awaits you
- A full portfolio with real market demand (NIS 2, GDPR, and the EU AI Act drive the need)
- Short paths to management, real freedom to decide
- Freedom to build your own book of business
- The chance to shape the sales of a growing company
Your benefits with us
- Strong base salary plus uncapped, performance-based commission
- Company car or mobility budget
- 30 days of vacation, company pension, public-transport subsidy, hybrid working
- Training budget for sales and professional certifications
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Cybersecurity Sales Consultant / Pre-Sales (f/m/d)
You are the bridge between technology and customer. You translate complex security solutions into clear value and turn trust into a deal.
Your responsibilities
- You join the sales managers in technically demanding conversations and answer the questions where pure sales hits its limits
- You analyse the customer's security posture and requirements and derive the right solution from our portfolio
- You build solution concepts, run product demos (incl. MiRA, RedMentis), and support proof-of-concept phases
- You advise on standards and obligations (ISO 27001, NIS 2, GDPR, EU AI Act) and explain what they mean for the customer in concrete terms
- You support tenders and the technical parts of proposals
- You feed market signals back to product and engineering
Your profile
- A solid understanding of IT security, cloud, or compliance, from a technical or advisory role
- You can explain complex topics simply, also for management without an IT background
- Experience in pre-sales, IT consulting, or as a technical contact in sales
- A confident presence in front of customers and joy in working with the sales team
- Negotiation-level German, good English
What awaits you
- A role that carries weight: without you the big deals do not happen
- Close collaboration with engineering and management
- Variety between consulting, demo, and concept
- A field with strongly rising demand
Your benefits with us
- Attractive base salary plus a performance-based component
- 30 days of vacation, company pension, public-transport subsidy, hybrid working
- Training budget for professional and security certifications
- Access to the GAD Academy and modern equipment
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Business Development Manager GAD Academy (f/m/d)
You bring our trainings on ISO 27001, NIS 2, GDPR, and the EU AI Act into companies. You win corporate customers for the GAD Academy and build partnerships.
Your responsibilities
- You win companies, associations, and public bodies as customers for the GAD Academy trainings
- You advise on the right format (in-house, open, online) and put together tailored training packages
- You build long-term partnerships, for example with associations, chambers, and education providers
- You guide enquiries from the Academy configurator from the first question to the booking
- You work closely with the trainers and feed market signals back into course planning
- You keep customers, meetings, and quotes clean in the CRM
Your profile
- Experience in sales or customer care, ideally in education, consulting, or professional development
- Interest in information security and compliance. You do not need to be an expert, but you want to understand the topics
- You enjoy explaining, you listen, and you find out what a customer really needs
- Organised and dependable in quoting and scheduling
- Negotiation-level German, good English
What awaits you
- A field with clear legal demand (NIS 2, GDPR, and the EU AI Act make training mandatory)
- Meaningful products: you sell knowledge that genuinely makes organisations safer
- Close collaboration with trainers and management
- Room to help build up the Academy's sales
Your benefits with us
- Base salary plus performance-based commission on booked trainings
- 30 days of vacation, company pension, public-transport subsidy, hybrid working
- Training budget and free participation in all GAD Academy courses
- Modern equipment
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Head of Sales (f/m/d)
You build up our sales and lead the team. You turn single deals into a predictable, growing pipeline.
Your responsibilities
- You lead and develop the sales team and grow the crew further
- You own sales targets, forecast, and pipeline across the entire GAD portfolio
- You develop our sales strategy, processes, and pricing logic, and introduce new tools
- You are personally involved in the important deals and negotiate at management level
- You work closely with marketing, engineering, and management on a shared growth line
- You report to management and make sales measurable
Your profile
- Several years of experience in B2B sales, with a proven leadership or team-lead role
- You have sold successfully yourself and know how to get a team there
- Experience with sales steering, forecasting, and CRM
- Ideally a background in IT, software, security, or explanation-heavy services
- Clear communication, a role-model attitude, entrepreneurial thinking
- Negotiation-level German and English
What awaits you
- A key role with direct impact on growth
- Freedom to shape sales from the ground up
- Short paths to management
- A portfolio with strong market demand
Your benefits with us
- Attractive base salary plus performance pay on the team result
- Company car or mobility budget
- 30 days of vacation, company pension, public-transport subsidy, hybrid working
- Training budget for leadership and professional topics
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SOC Analyst Security Operations (24/7) (f/m/d)
You keep an eye on our customers' security posture around the clock. You spot attacks early and act before damage is done.
Your responsibilities
- You monitor systems and networks in 24/7 operation and analyse alerts (SIEM)
- You detect suspicious activity, prioritise it, and trigger the right steps
- You handle security incidents from the first alert to containment and documentation
- You work together with the red team (RedMentis) and the customer teams
- You help improve detection rules and playbooks continuously
- You keep your analyses and handovers clean and documented
Your profile
- Interest in IT security and joy in tracking down attack patterns
- First experience with networks, operating systems, or security tools (SIEM, EDR), or strong willingness to learn
- A calm, careful way of working, even when things move fast
- Willingness to work shifts in 24/7 operation
- Good German and English (technical texts)
What awaits you
- A clear entry into cybersecurity with real learning
- Modern tools and an experienced team that trains you
- Variety: no alert is like the other
- A development path toward senior analyst or incident response
Your benefits with us
- Attractive shift allowances on top of the base salary
- 30 days of vacation, company pension, public-transport subsidy
- Training budget for security certifications
- Access to the GAD Academy and modern equipment
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Open questions? Answers.
Can I apply for multiple positions at once?
Yes. If multiple positions interest you, apply for each one individually through the respective application form. We’ll route your documents to the right teams and coordinate internally.
Are there application deadlines?
No, we don’t have fixed deadlines. As soon as we find the right person for a position, we take the listing down. As long as a position is visible here, you can apply.
Which documents do I need?
Required: resume as PDF (max. 5 MB), contact details, and a few required form fields. Optional: cover letter, references, and certificates. What we really care about is your career path and the work that has interested you. Not a perfectly formatted cover letter.
Can I apply by mail or email?
Please use the online form on this page. For data-protection and process reasons, we don’t process applications by mail or email through the regular workflow. Everything runs through the encrypted application form. If your file is too large, drop us a note at info@germanaidefense.de.
I’m having trouble applying online. What can I do?
Send us a brief email at info@germanaidefense.de describing the issue (browser, error message, screenshot if helpful). We’ll respond within one business day and find a solution.
Can I make changes after submitting?
Yes. Just send an email to info@germanaidefense.de with your changes or an updated file. We’ll swap the documents before review.
How can I withdraw my application?
Send a brief email to info@germanaidefense.de requesting withdrawal. We’ll confirm receipt and delete your documents in accordance with our application data-protection notice.
How long does the application process take?
For most positions, it takes about 3 to 5 weeks from the time we receive your application to a contract offer. You’ll get a response within the first 5 business days, followed by first and second interviews. We know speed matters and keep the process as lean as possible.
What happens to my application data?
Your documents are used exclusively for the current application process and treated confidentially. If you’re not hired, we’ll delete your data no later than 6 months after the process ends. Details in our privacy policy.