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<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 Data & Machine Learning Engineer, you own the data infrastructure and ML model development for the OAA team's AI use cases. You build the pipelines that feed models with clean, reliable data from both operational systems and back-office sources, deploy models into production, and ensure they perform reliably — from yield prediction on the line to anomaly detection in financial data.</span></p></p><br><strong>Responsibilities</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;">Design and build data pipelines from operational (MES, ERP) and back-office sources feeding ML models</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 ML models for production and back-office use cases — from experimentation through to production deployment</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;">Deploy models into production: serving infrastructure, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining workflows</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 the OAA Lead and stakeholders to scope and validate ML use cases — feasibility, data availability, ROI</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;">Collaborate with the Automation Engineer to integrate model outputs into automated workflows</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;">Maintain and improve deployed models as data distributions and operational conditions evolve</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 data pipelines, model architectures, feature definitions, and deployment configurations</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;">4–7 years in data engineering or ML engineering</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;">Demonstrated experience deploying ML models to production: not just research or notebook-level work</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: core language for data engineering and ML development</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;">SQL: data extraction, validation, and pipeline development</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;">ML frameworks: scikit-learn, PyTorch, 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;">MLOps fundamentals: model versioning, serving, monitoring, retraining</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;">MSc in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or equivalent</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;">Data pipeline tooling: Airflow, dbt, 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;">Cloud data platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure</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;">Experience with industrial, time-series, or back-office financial data</span></p></li></ul></p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>