Senior Deep Learning Engineer (m/f/d) Contract

Grow with us – Start your career at IU now!

Eager to help us bring access to education to everybody with the help of AI? At IU International University we are comitted to make personalized education accessible around the globe through the power of AI. To enable acessibility and personalization from the start, we are on the mission to build the most personal, most helpful and most motivating journey on our website and through our sales channels for potential students across the globe to reach their goal of growth through education. Join us and help us leverage the power of state-of-the-art AI solutions to build the education of tomorrow, today.

Seize this opportunity and support our team in Munich or at one of our other locations or remotely across Germany, starting immediately in full-time as Senior Deep Learning Engineer (m/f/d).

Your tasks

• You develop, deploy and optimise agent based pipelines for personalized content generation and conversational AI.
• You develop, deploy and optimise sequence to sequence models for neural recommender systems based on unstructured customer data.
• You support building a mature training, data and MLOPs environment for state-of-the-art AI development.
• You pro-actively engage with business stakeholders to actively drive the translation of business goals towards impact oriented AI solutions.

Your Profile

• At least 4 years of proven experience as a Deep/Machine Learning Engineer working on NLP or GNNs.
• Expert level knowledge and experience with attention based neural network architectures and policy optimization algorithms.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with GNNs or unstructured sequence to sequence modelling and in MLOPs and Data Engineering best practices.
• Hands on experience with shipping models to production on cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with Kafka is a plus.
• Good knowledge of database technologies, including relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB), with the ability to design and interact with complex data models.
• A pro-active, results-oriented mindset and great communication skills.
• Fluent in English, German language skills are a plus

We offer

• Shape your career: Rapid growth opens up many new opportunities for you. Tell us about your dream career and we’ll help you make it happen.
• Work from wherever you want …: Modern tools and video meetings make it possible: with IU, the boundaries between here and there blur. You want to work from abroad for a while? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefits.
• … and flexible time: It’s your job: We trust you and give you the greatest possible freedom to organize yourself.
• You have the choice: You are free to choose your equipment, because everyone has its own preferences when it comes to hardware.
• Take your knowledge to a new level: Benefit from a 100% discount on tuition fees for an IU combined degree in the tech sector and many other free training courses. There is always something new to learn.
• Get a good rest: we push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees. Need some time off? How about a sabbatical?
• Reach your destination sustainably: Germanys 9 euro ticket is history, we got the DeutschlandTicket for 7 €. You prefer to travel by bike? Then a Jobrad (bike leasing)might be the right choice. We offer many environmentally conscious options to be mobile both professionally and privately.

Who are we? Germany’s largest university – and not just an excellent choice for studying, but also an outstanding Great Place to Work®! As an edutech company, we rely on state-of-the-art technology and data-driven approaches. That’s why AI-driven voice assistants and other GPT systems have long become part of our daily work routine, helping us to focus on exciting projects. Here at IU, over 4,000 employees are dedicated to making a difference. So start now and join the Gamechangers!

Become part of our engineering team at Germany’s largest university! We’re passionate, competitive, open to all things new – and we love data. We live to code anything that makes IU students and IU services better.

Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now!

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Nilofer at nilofer.qayumi@iu.org.

Words are followed by actions: We take our “Culture Of Everyone” very seriously and would like to take this opportunity to expressly point out that you are welcome to join us, regardless of your origin, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation. Even if you have a disability, our doors are wide open to you. We look forward to a diverse community here at IU!