Senior Deep Learning Engineer (all genders)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Karlsruhe (HQ) / Gothenburg / remote in Germany & Sweden

The role
At understandAI, we believe that AI is the most powerful tool our generation has at hand, and we want to make it accessible for real-world applications. 

As a Deep Learning Engineer, you develop new and improve existing machine learning models together with your team. Our goal is to automate data annotations, and therefore you push machine learning to its limits and help us create ground truth quality annotations.
Your tasks
  • You measure and improve our automation workflows
  • You integrate new algorithms and deep learning models into our product
  • You prepare datasets and automate our data pipeline
  • You take part in code reviews, and your teams pair programming sessions
  • You support and develop team colleagues by providing advice, coaching, and technical guidance
  • You read related papers, implement and test innovative ideas 
  • You help the team find a balance between cutting edge research and high-quality code that runs in production
What will you need to be successful?
  • Industry experience with the deployment of models into production
  • Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch or similar machine learning frameworks, preferably on large-scale projects
  • University degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science or a related technical field
  • Solid knowledge in the field of Machine Learning including the latest Deep Learning strategies
  • Fluent in Python and Numpy
  • Expert knowledge in linear algebra, stochastics, and computer vision
  • Good English communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Familiarity with agile software development
What we offer
  • A crucial role in a dynamic and fast-growing team
  • A work environment that fosters trust, respect, and feedback
  • An onboarding buddy to integrate you smoothly into our team
  • Productivity and improvement time between the development sprints
  • A mentor helping you with your personal goals, technical progress in general and your software engineering skills in particular
  • Free snacks, drinks, and the option to join activities like hiking, inline-skating, climbing or board game nights
  • Competitive salary, flexible working hours, work from home
Overview of our tech stack

TensorFlow, PyTorch, Python, Numpy

Contact person
Katrin Maar
HR Business Partner  
katrin.maar@understand.ai
+4917660199870
About us

Understand.ai was founded in 2017 with the vision in mind to make AI accessible to everyone. To achieve this goal, we’re solving the data problem of AI. The tooling and services provided by understand.ai enable our customers to get the right data, at the right quality and right quantity, to make production-grade AI products a reality. Join us to become part of this journey!

Headquartered in Karlsruhe, our team has grown to more than 80 employees since 2017 and is part of the dSPACE Group since 2019. dSPACE is a market innovator and leader in providing solutions and systems for embedded controller software development in the Automotive, Aerospace, and Manufacturing industries. Founded in Germany in 1988, dSPACE employs over 2200 people worldwide, who are committed to making the embedded controls software development process more efficient through innovative tools and services.


Due to our success in growing customer numbers and projects, we need to scale our structure and team sizes in order to continue providing excellent service. Our goal is to make our customers happy and our employees happy. We offer a variety of benefits, but more importantly, we offer an interesting & meaningful work environment and responsibilities, on which you can work with a great level of autonomy. 


We can’t wait to see what kind of future you choose to build at UAI - so click on the “apply for this position” button and together create the gold standard for ground truth data for autonomous transportation!

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