Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been in talks to become U.S. Ambassador to Germany for the Trump administration, sources told The New York Post.

The Trump team could fill the top diplomatic post in Berlin as soon as this week, sources said. It couldn’t immediately be confirmed, however, whether Thiel is still in the running.

Rumors of Thiel’s candidacy for the cushy job have circulated from Europe to Silicon Valley since the holiday season, even as Thiel has repeatedly denied in interviews that he’s interested in a full-time government position.

“No decisions have been made,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Post, declining to comment further.

A spokesman for Thiel didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment Thursday.

Thiel’s talks for the diplomatic post come amid speculation he might run for governor of California. But one source downplayed the idea, opining that “he could never win.” Another said, meanwhile, that Berlin might be a “stepping stone” for such an ambition.

Chatter that Thiel was “likely” to become German ambassador has rippled through tech and government circles in Berlin in recent weeks, according to a source.

“At first I thought it was silly,” one Silicon Valley insider told The Post. “But maybe it’s a good way for him to get away, which somebody said he wouldn’t mind doing, given all the negative energy he faced.”

Thiel got blasted for backing Trump during the election season by the left-leaning tech crowd, which has bristled at, among other things, the president-elect’s threats on immigration.

The tone changed last month, however, when titans including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Larry Page, Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk flocked to a summit with the president-elect at Trump Tower that was organized by Thiel.

Born in West Germany to German parents before he was brought to the U.S. as a toddler, Thiel also speaks German.

Although he has mainly focused on US tech as an investor, Thiel has long warned U.S. tech companies about growing antitrust sentiment in Europe.

Earlier this week, Trump ruffled feathers in Germany as he threatened border taxes for German auto makers who built cars in Mexico, called NATO “obsolete” and said the EU was just a “vehicle for Germany.”

As talk has surfaced about Thiel’s possible assignment, some insiders have questioned whether it would be high-profile enough for the ambitious Thiel.

Others, however, note that Trump has been aggressively cleaning house at U.S. embassies worldwide. Firings of all Obama-appointed ambassadors could portend a broader revamp, sources say.

For example, the U.S.’s traditional hierarchy of ambassadorships, placing the U.K. at the top, with France and Japan traditionally the second and third most coveted posts, is in need of an overhaul, many agree.

“Germany is running Europe now,” one source noted.

On Thursday, Trump named Jets owner Woody Johnson as U.K. ambassador.

This report originally appeared on NYPost.com.