Permanent role
One senior engineer with AI instead of a whole team
Coding agents have changed the economics of software delivery. Concept, development, testing, integration and operations – for many roadmaps, work that needed an agency or a team of developers a year ago, I can now deliver on my own, with data protection built in.
Employee
Hire one instead of a team
For companies that want AI expertise in-house for the long term.
Instead of recruiting, onboarding and managing a whole development team, you hire one Senior AI Engineer who works with coding agents. The knowledge, the tooling and your AI governance stay inside your company.
- Full-time – for employers across Europe and the UK, remote from Austria or hybrid in Styria
- Rolls out your enterprise AI toolchain – SSO and audit logs, with GDPR and EU AI Act requirements taken into account from day one
- Makes your existing team productive with coding agents
- No recruiter fee – and a work sample on a realistic problem from your domain before you decide
The financial case
What a year of delivery really costs
The same roadmap, staffed three ways. Estimated annual costs for a mid-sized company in Austria and Germany.
Agency team
€480,000–960,000per year
½ project lead, 2–3 developers, ½ QA – 3–4 FTE at €800–1,200 per person-day
In-house development team
€250,000–510,000per year
3–4 developers incl. 20–30% employer costs, plus recruiting fees in year one
One Senior AI Engineer
By agreement
Far below both alternatives
One senior plus an enterprise AI subscription – priced to your scope after a short call
1
accountable senior instead of a team of three to four
€0
recruiter fees, agency markups and change-request surcharges
How the numbers are calculated
Own estimates based on typical market rates in Austria and Germany, 2026: agency rates of €800–1,200 per person-day for 3–4 FTE at 200 billable days; salaries of €60,000–80,000 gross for 3–4 developers plus 20–30% employer costs; recruiting fees of 20–30% of an annual salary. My fee is agreed individually; even with the enterprise AI subscription it stays well below both alternatives. The comparison assumes comparable delivered output – which you check on a real task before you commit. As a contractor, you pay for agreed deliverables or booked days instead of a salary – with no employer costs, no recruiting fees and no long-term commitment.
Why it holds up in a mid-sized or large company
Data protection by design
AI tooling only in the setup you approve – an enterprise plan under commercial terms: no training on your code or data, a data processing agreement with the provider, configurable retention. Where data must not leave the EU or your network, the AI I build for you runs in EU cloud regions or on-premise.
No single point of failure
Tests, CI, documentation and runbooks live in your repository, so your team or a successor can take over at any time.
Prepared for approval
Technical documentation for your EU AI Act risk assessment, audit logs and role-based access – the basis IT security, your legal team and the works council need for their review and a works agreement.
Sounds like what you need?
Tell me about your project or role – I’d love to hear from you.