
Custom Surgical is a medtech company dedicated to becoming the global leader in digitalization and AI for diagnostic and surgical procedures in eyecare, empowering professionals with innovative imaging and data solutions. By delivering a universal, high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-use #MicroREC optical system, we enable doctors worldwide to record or take pictures of their microsurgeries or slit lamp diagnostics with their own smartphones in a simple way. #MicroRECApp is our second product and an application that allows doctors to improve their captures and recordings and manage their medical data anywhere and at any time. Get to know more about these and other products at: customsurgical.co

Custom Surgical is a medtech company dedicated to becoming the global leader in digitalization and AI for diagnostic and surgical procedures in eyecare, empowering professionals with innovative imaging and data solutions. By delivering a universal, high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-use #MicroREC optical system, we enable doctors worldwide to record or take pictures of their microsurgeries or slit lamp diagnostics with their own smartphones in a simple way. #MicroRECApp is our second product and an application that allows doctors to improve their captures and recordings and manage their medical data anywhere and at any time. Get to know more about these and other products at: customsurgical.co
Location: Munich, Germany
Product: MicroREC smartphone optical adapters and MicroREC mobile apps
Team size: Approximately 16 employees
Notable investor: Luminate NY (seed/accelerator)
Regulatory / quality: Claims FDA listing, EUDAMED registration, ISO 9001:2015
Digitization and AI-enabled imaging solutions for ophthalmic microscopy and slit-lamp diagnostics.
MedTech / Eyecare
Seed round closed on Oct 28, 2022; Crunchbase lists Luminate as investor. Company blog documents a $600,000 convertible note from Luminate NY tied to accelerator awards.
“Received seed-stage/accelerator investment from Luminate NY (including convertible-note funding tied to accelerator awards)”
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We are looking for a highly skilled Senior AI/ML Engineer (AI Lead) to take ownership of Custom Surgical’s AI technical direction and help translate real-world clinical data into robust, scalable AI systems.
This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strong product and system thinking. You will design, build, and guide AI/ML solutions across computer vision, multimodal models, and emerging AI capabilities, working closely with Engineering, Product, and clinical stakeholders.
You will play a key role in shaping how AI is applied across Custom Surgical’s products, ensuring technical excellence while enabling long-term scalability, reliability, and regulatory readiness.
Tasks
Own and drive the technical direction of AI/ML development across Custom Surgical;
Design, implement, and maintain computer vision and multimodal ML systems for real-world clinical data;
Lead model development from experimentation to production, ensuring robustness, performance, and scalability ;
Define best practices for training pipelines, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of ML models;
Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to align AI capabilities with real user workflows;
Mentor and support junior and mid-level AI/ML engineers through reviews, guidance, and technical leadership;
Contribute to architectural decisions around data pipelines, model lifecycle, and infrastructure ;
Ensure AI systems are built with quality, safety, and regulatory constraints in mind;
Stay up to date with advances in AI/ML and assess their relevance for real-world medical applications.
Requirements
Strong experience as an AI/ML Engineer working on production-grade systems;
Solid background in computer vision and deep learning ;
Hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow ;
Strong proficiency in Python and ML experimentation workflows;
Experience taking ML models from research to production environments ;
Ability to design and reason about end-to-end ML systems , not just individual models;
Experience collaborating with software engineers and product teams;
Fluency in English (spoken and written);
Based in Munich or willing to relocate (on-site collaboration required).
Nice to have (but not required):
Experience with LLMs or multimodal AI systems ;
Background in medical imaging, healthcare, or regulated environments ;
Experience with cloud-based ML infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS);
Prior experience in a technical leadership or mentoring role ;
Familiarity with data annotation workflows or weak supervision techniques.
What we expect from Custom Surgical Candidates:
You are an owner — you take end-to-end responsibility for complex technical problems and drive long-term improvements;
You have a growth mindset and enjoy building systems that evolve over time;
You’re proactive and solutions-oriented — you work across teams to unblock progress and deliver outcomes when it matters;
You are open, sincere, and comfortable giving and receiving frequent feedback ;
You thrive in an international, young, and flexible company ;
You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
You enjoy mentoring others and raising the technical bar of the team.
Benefits
Time flexibility and trust-based working culture;
Home office when needed, with on-site collaboration in Munich;
No unnecessary bureaucracy — high autonomy to shape AI architecture and priorities;
WellPass / Deutschlandticket + JobRad bike leasing with insurance;
Direct impact on products used daily by clinicians worldwide;
The opportunity to define how AI is responsibly deployed in a regulated medical domain.