About this role
What we build <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Most companies find out about supplier insolvencies, cyber attacks, factory fires or floods that affect their supply chain when it's already a crisis. Prewave exists to change that. We're an AI-native company giving BMW Group, Hilti and Lufthansa real-time visibility into supply chain risks before they become headlines. </span><p><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">We're looking for a </span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;">Data Science Engineer</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> who takes ownership of </span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">turning vast, complex data into actionable intelligence</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> from day one. Someone who uses AI as a default part of how they work - and knows when to trust their own judgment. </span></p> What you'll own <ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Decode the data </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">– Leverage </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">natural language processing (NLP)</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> to extract meaning from diverse datasets.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Think like a scientist </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">– Formulate hypotheses, uncover patterns, and pinpoint optimization opportunities.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Build smarter AI </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">– Develop, fine-tune, and deploy </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">machine learning</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> models using </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Torch</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> and </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">TensorFlow</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Bridge research & reality</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> – Transform cutting-edge algorithms into production-ready solutions.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Keep models sharp </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">– Monitor, enhance, and continuously improve model performance and accuracy.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Expand the data universe</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> – Identify and integrate </span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">new data sources</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> to enrich our intelligence.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Collaborate & innovate</span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> – Work with cross-functional teams to tackle business challenges with data-driven solutions.</span></p></li></ul> What we are looking for <p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">You are the right fit if you have:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related fields</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">3+ years of experience in developing, deploying and scaling machine learning models to production</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Experience with NLP or other machine learning technologies, machine learning techniques and tools like Torch or Tensorflow</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Good experience in working with Python and Scala </span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Knowledge of SQL and relational databases</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Strong problem-solving skills, comfortable with ambiguity and open-ended questions</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">End-to-end ownership, from prototyping a model to deploying and monitoring it in production</span></p></li></ul><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Nice to have:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Master’s degree in a related field</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Understanding of cloud-based services, especially Google Cloud Platform or AWS</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Knowledge of NoSQL database systems</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Knowledge of agile software development techniques</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:none;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Experience with agent engineering and AI tools like Cursor, Claude etc. </span></p></li></ul> What's our working style <p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">We're a </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">robust AI-native</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> team building an AI-native resilience product - and we hire for both. For us, AI-native has always meant humans and AI working together, not one replacing the other. We use tools like </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;">Claude and Cursor</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> as a normal part of the job, to think faster, work smarter and spend less time on the repetitive stuff. We treat AI fluency as a skill like any other - something you build, experiment with and keep developing. </span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">What that works alongside is </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">real ownership</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">. You'll have the space and the trust to figure things out your way - with a strong team around you and plenty of support when you need it. Things move fast here and the brief won't always be complete, but that's what makes the work interesting.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">The people who do best at Prewave are </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">curious </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">by default, go after things rather than wait to be handed them, and don't lose their footing when the plan changes.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">We score </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">six values</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:#141413;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> in every interview - creating positive impact, optimising for customer value, being an ambitious innovator, operating with urgency, doing things that make sense and collaborating with kindness - so you always know what we're looking for and can prepare accordingly. </span></p> The Package <p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Minimum EUR </span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(61,61,58);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;">45,738</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> gross annually based on IT Collective Agreement. Flexible hours and hybrid working.</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;"> </span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,19);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;">Your birthday off. MyClubs partnership. Mental health support. Regular health check-ups and initiatives. Company-wide training. Fun team events. Device of choice. Work from anywhere - up to 8 weeks a year. </span></p>