Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Munich or Berlin, Germany

Company

hirify.global is a defence technology startup developing and manufacturing software-defined, scalable unmanned systems for NATO Allies and their partners.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain Python software and ETL pipelines for flight data, rosbags, video, and external data deliveries.
• Develop tools for video sub-sampling, frame extraction, dataset packaging, and self-service data access.
• Build metadata databases, data catalogs, schemas, and lineage tracking for datasets, recordings, sensors, and labels.
• Own technical workflows for data curation and labeling, coordinate with external annotation vendors, and implement automated quality assurance.
• Develop backend APIs, dashboards, and data-access tools for AI and engineering teams.
• Improve testing, typing, documentation, logging, CI/CD, access management, and automation across the data platform.

Requirements

• Strong experience writing clean, typed, tested, and maintainable Python.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating ETL or data-ingestion pipelines.
• Strong SQL and database design skills, preferably with PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience with object storage such as GCP/GCS or S3, plus Docker and CI/CD fundamentals.
• Comfort working in Unix/Linux environments with shell scripting and standard Unix tools.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and coordinate data labeling and curation with external vendors and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with synthetic data, GenAI-assisted workflows, auto-labeling, or data augmentation.
• Familiarity with DVC, LakeFS, FiftyOne, COCO, or large-scale data curation workflows.
• Experience with BigQuery, Cloud Run, IAM, robotics data formats, or multimodal data such as video and lidar.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a young startup environment with evolving priorities and significant ownership.
• Build data systems used directly by perception, autonomy, AI, and engineering teams.
• Critical thinking, grit, adaptability, and learning ability are valued over matching every qualification.
• Permanent, full-time employment.

Hiring process

• The process emphasizes critical thinking, grit, and the ability to learn rather than a perfect checklist match.