Senior Consultant Data Science
Permanent | Full-time
Location: Frankfurt am Main (hybrid)
Languages: German & English (C1+)
About the Role
We are supporting a well-established Data & AI consulting organisation based in Germany, working with clients across multiple industries on advanced, production-grade AI solutions.
In this role, you will design, build, and deploy Generative AI and NLP systems that solve complex, real-world business problems. You will work closely with customers and internal teams, taking responsibility as a developer, expert, or technical lead, depending on the project context.
The position combines hands-on technical depth, client-facing responsibility, and mentoring, with strong exposure to modern NLP and LLM-based architectures.
Your Responsibilities
- Design and implement Generative AI and NLP systems optimised for performance, latency, cost, scalability, and complexity
- Work closely with customer stakeholders and internal teams throughout project delivery
- Contribute as a developer, expert, or Technical Lead across diverse NLP use cases, such as:
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and knowledge management systems
- Agent-based architectures and multi-agent workflows
- Fine-tuning and optimisation of language models for domain-specific tasks
- Guide and mentor less experienced team members, providing technical leadership and constructive feedback
- Support multiple projects as a subject-matter expert to solve complex technical challenges
- Design and implement robust, scalable ML pipelines following modern MLOps LLMOps best practices across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Contribute to internal product development and the evolution of the AI service portfolio
- Support proposal development and handle technical communication during pre-sales and acquisition processes
- Stay up to date with the latest developments in NLP, Generative AI, tools, frameworks, and research, and apply them pragmatically to customer solutions
Your Profile
- Strong background in machine learning and deep learning, with a focus on transformer models, large language models, and Generative AI
- Several years of hands-on experience with production-ready ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
- Practical experience with common NLP and LLM tooling, including:
- LLM APIs and inference platforms
- Frameworks for prompt orchestration, agents, and pipelines
- Vector databases, embeddings, and high-performance inference
- Dataset creation, evaluation, and deployment workflows
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks and typical LLM-based workflows such as:
- Conversational AI
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Information extraction
- Tool calling and LLM-based evaluation
- Solid understanding of advanced approaches such as Agentic RAG, Graph-based retrieval, multi-agent systems, text-to-SQL, or code retrieval
- Experience with fine-tuning, post-training, inference optimisation, and PEFT methods
- Ability to write clean, performant, and maintainable code and deploy AI systems into production
- Experience with cloud environments and MLOps workflows (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Strong communication skills and confidence when interacting with both technical and business stakeholders
- Structured, reliable, and quality-focused working style
- Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites within the DACH region
What’s Offered
- Data science and AI consulting as a core business, with cutting-edge NLP and GenAI use cases
- Technically challenging, diverse projects and a steep learning curve
- Continuous professional and personal development through mentoring and structured feedback
- Open, inclusive, and collaborative working culture with flat hierarchies
- Agile working environment with short decision-making paths
- Transparent and competitive compensation structure
- Hybrid working model with a modern office environment and flexible remote options (including limited work from other EU countries)
- Comprehensive benefits package including modern IT equipment, mobility support, wellness programs, and additional perks