Senior Machine Learning Engineer - #2137658

About Staffbase

We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is t o help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication. Our industry-leading and award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email solutions – create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.

Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in Berlin, New York, London, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers—reaching over 16.4 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.

We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.

Your Role

As a founding Senior Machine Learning Engineer on our innovative Mission Control team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products. Your solutions will transform Staffbase customers into strategic storytellers and help measure impact of their communications. You will drive the development of scalable, robust ML-based systems that redefine customer’s experiences.

Our environment

• Working with skilled and similar-minded professionals in a team that values diversity and inclusivity
• We aim to create a flexible and agile work environment that promotes the well-being and work-life balance of our employees
• We believe that team events during working hours play a vital role in building an exceptionally effective team, and we encourage them
• We are enthusiastic about technology and committed to using it to improve the world
• We follow the "You build it, you run it" approach and take pride in it

What you’ll be doing

• Build & Deploy ML Solutions: Build and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable ML pipelines for processing large volumes of textual data. Work with orchestration tools (e.g., Dagster) to manage complex data workflows
• Collaborate & Innovate: Work cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering teams to create user-centric, ML-driven solutions
• Experiment & Learn: Run experiments, embrace fast failures, and iterate quickly for continuous product improvement
• Mentor & Grow: Share knowledge, support team growth, and stay ahead of AI trends to drive innovation

What you need to be successful

• 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning
• 2+ years of experience in Natural Language Processing
• 6+ months of experience with building applications leveraging Large Language Models
• Experience with MLOps best practices, model monitoring, and model versioning
• Experience working in a product team in a software development environment
• Proven experience leading ML projects, making strategic technical decisions, and mentoring engineers and data scientists
• Experience building and deploying ML models in cloud environments, utilizing containerization and orchestration tools
• Strong product-oriented thinking with a deep understanding of customer needs and domain-specific challenges
• Strong programming and engineering skills, with the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable ML systems

What you'll get

• Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including an Long-Term Incentive Plan
• Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of €1560
• Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of €1000, and one day off for growth per year (increase to two days in 2nd year)
• Recharge - with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
• Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance €35, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
• Support-we’re offering a company pension scheme
• Sports & Health - join our sport courses in the offices. The offices are equipped with fruits, drinks and snacks
• Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp
• Volunteers Day- you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
• Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid