Automation Engineer (All genders)

<br><strong>About Us</strong><p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;">STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionising the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop, and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective — providing operators with a decisive edge in contested environments.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;">We are focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems — not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe, today.</span></p></p><br><strong>About the team</strong><p>The Operations Excellence team sits within the COO organization and serves as a strategic partner to managers, team leads, and colleagues across Stark. By delivering data-driven insights, leading critical projects, and driving continuous process improvement, we help the organization operate more efficiently, scale effectively, and achieve its goals faster.As an individual contributor, you will take end-to-end ownership of complex initiatives with significant business impact. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you will have the opportunity to influence key decisions, shape core operating processes, and contribute directly to the success of one of Europe’s fastest-growing unicorns.</p><br><strong>Your mission</strong><p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">As Automation Engineer, you build and deploy automations that eliminate manual effort across operations and the back-office. You work across RPA, LLM-based tooling, and API integrations — and you are as likely to be automating an invoice approval chain as a production line data feed. You measure success in hours saved and errors eliminated.</span></p></p><br><strong>Responsibilities</strong><p><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Design and build RPA workflows for operational and back-office processes — UiPath, Power Automate, or equivalent</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Develop LLM-based automation tools for document-heavy workflows: invoice extraction, quality certificates, order processing, email triage</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Integrate automation solutions with ERP, MES, and business applications via APIs</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Build agent-based workflows where multi-step reasoning or decision-making is required</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Test, deploy, and maintain automations in production — including monitoring, alerting, and incident response</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Document automation logic, dependencies, and maintenance procedures thoroughly</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Work with operational and back-office teams to identify, scope, and prioritise new automation opportunities</span></p></li></ul></p><br><strong>Qualifications</strong><p><ul><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">3–6 years building automations in an operational or business process context</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Has shipped working automations into production — not just proof-of-concept or demo environments</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">RPA tools — UiPath, Power Automate, or equivalent (hands-on production experience)</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Python scripting — for custom automation logic, API integration, and LLM tool use</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">API integration — REST APIs, webhooks, data exchange across ERP and business systems</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Process analysis and QA mindset — automations must be reliable, not just functional</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar</span></p></li></ul></p><br><strong>Nice to have</strong><p><ul><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">LLM-based tooling — prompt engineering, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar)</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">ERP system familiarity (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar)</span></p></li><li style="font-style:italic;"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:'Inter Tight', sans-serif;color:#111111;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Manufacturing or back-office finance/ops experience</span></p></li></ul></p><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>