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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Confidential company · Cologne · Posted Oct 1, 2026

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Public summary

Join a growing technology company based in Cologne, founded by leading European automotive and technology corporations. The company develops sovereign AI solutions aligned with European dataspace initiatives, focusing on secure and standardized data transfer in the automotive value chain. This role leads the Machine Learning team, drives AI architecture, and collaborates with product teams and dataspace experts.

Location and work setup

Location
Cologne
Remote status
Hybrid
German requirement signal
No German Required Detected
Detected job language
English

Responsibilities

Lead the Machine Learning team, architect AI model training and fine-tuning using sovereign dataspace technology, define technical ML roadmap, support product management in AI/ML architecture evaluations, recruit and mentor ML engineers, foster inclusive and collaborative team culture, collaborate with dataspace technology experts and product teams, contribute to open-source projects.

Qualifications

Master's degree or higher in Machine Learning, Computer Science or related field; 7+ years experience in Machine Learning including federated learning; 3+ years in technical project and people leadership; proven ability to bring ML products to market; deep knowledge of ML infrastructure, large language models and AI tooling; excellent stakeholder management skills; strong interest and knowledge in sovereign AI and dataspace technologies (Catena-X, Gaia-X, IDSA); experience with open-source projects.

Skills

Machine Learning Federated Learning Team Leadership Project Management Stakeholder Management Open-Source Contribution ML Infrastructure Large Language Models AI Tooling Technical Architecture Recruiting Mentoring