Senior Data Scientist (AI Engineering) (m/f/d)

Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

Approximate annual gross salary: €78,000

Company

hirify.global develops digital solutions for independent and small to medium-sized restaurants, including reservation solutions and payment terminals, serving more than 410,000 customers across multiple countries.

What you will do

• Build predictive machine learning models and apply statistical analysis to generate actionable business insights.
• Partner with Commercial, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders to identify needs, shape use cases, and translate business challenges into AI solutions.
• Design, build, evaluate, and scale production-ready agentic AI solutions that automate and improve commercial processes.
• Prepare and facilitate AI and data science workshops that turn ideas into concrete digitization opportunities.
• Apply spec-driven development and strengthen standards, best practices, and automation across the data science and AI workflow.
• Evaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks, and architectures and adopt them when they provide clear business or technical value.

Requirements

• Proven experience in data science and machine learning, including strong Python and SQL skills and hands-on statistical analysis and predictive modeling.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications or AI agents, with the ability and motivation to develop production-ready agentic solutions.
• Solid understanding of LLM evaluation, retrieval and grounding, hallucination risks, and cost-performance trade-offs.
• Ability to turn business problems into pragmatic, production-ready AI solutions while balancing business value, technical quality, and scalability.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including explaining complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders and co-creating solutions.
• Strong ownership, initiative, and collaborative problem-solving skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Nice to have

• Experience with MLOps, data engineering, dbt or comparable data-modeling approaches, solution architecture, or Google technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment in a fast-paced, agile, and entrepreneurial environment.
• Flexwork supports working from the location where productivity is highest.
• Ownership of projects and opportunities for skill-building and career development.
• International environment with colleagues from more than 34 nationalities.
• Private pension scheme, JobRad, DISH Sports Club with campus gym and sports communities, Corporate Benefits, and access to METRO stores.