Founding Data Scientist (m/w/d)

Dealspec; Berlin; Ibrido; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Dealspec is seeking a Founding Data Scientist in Berlin to build the data foundation and deliver data-intensive platform features. You will work closely with the founding and engineering teams to enable M&A advisors, private equity and search funds to identify sellers and buyers.

You will own the data lifecycle from sourcing and cleaning data to deploying models and integrating them into the product, with mentorship from the founders and exposure to the Berlin startup ecosystem.

Competenze

• 2–3+ years in data science or ML with Python and SQL, preferably in finance.
• Experience cleaning, enriching large datasets and building data pipelines.
• Hands-on NLP, embeddings, and LLMs to extract and structure information.
• Strong statistics, model evaluation, and translating business questions into analyses.
• Excellent English; German preferred.

Mansioni

• Source company, investor, people and market data with reliable pipelines.
• Enrich datasets using external sources and LLMs to extract information.
• Develop entity resolution and matching models across sources.
• Design relational data models for ownership and financial data.
• Build forecasting models to analyze trends and market developments.
• Establish benchmarks and quality checks for data and models.
• Work with engineering to integrate data into the platform.
• Mentorship with founders and network.
• Exposure to Berlin startup ecosystem.
• Regular team events and office involvement.

Conoscenze

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

NLP

LLMs

Statistics

English

German

Strumenti

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

Descrizione del lavoro

We're looking for a Founding Data Scientist to build the data foundation and intelligent data-intensive platform features. You'll work closely with the founding and engineering team to help M&A Advisors, Private Equity & Search Funds identify and assess companies and find relevant sellers and buyers. You'll own the process end-to-end, from sourcing and preparing data to integrating your models and analyses into our product.

What you will do

Your Main Responsibilities

• Build and improve our foundation of company, investor, people and market data
• Develop and deploy systems for sourcing, enrichment, matching and forecasting
• Measure and ensure data quality and model performance

Your Profile

• Strong experience (2–3+ years) in Data Science or applied Machine Learning with Python and SQL, ideally working with company or financial data
• Experience combining, cleaning and enriching large, diverse datasets and building reliable data pipelines
• Hands‑on experience with NLP, embeddings and LLMs to extract, structure and analyze unstructured information
• Strong understanding of statistics and model evaluation, with the ability to translate business questions into analyses and production-ready solutions
• Strong organizational & prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills in English and preferrably German

Your Tasks

• Source company, investor, people and market data with reliably built pipelines to keep it accurate and up to date
• Enrich datasets using external sources and LLMs to extract and structure information from websites, registries and documents
• Develop entity resolution and matching models to connect companies, investors and people across sources and identify relevant targets
• Design relational data models that capture ownership structures, financial data and relationships between companies, investors and people
• Build forecasting models to analyze trends and predict relevant company, investor eand market developments
• Establish benchmarks and quality checks to evaluate data coverage, enrichment accuracy and model performance
• Work closely with the engineering and founding teams to integrate data into our platform and shape our development priorities
• Attractive compensation package with equity (job specific)
• Direct mentorship with the founders and their network
• Meaningful work that reaches our software & service clients
• Exposure to M&A Advisors, Private Equity, Search Funds as well as the Berlin Startup Ecosystem
• Regular team events, social activities and company off-sites
• Amazing office at "The Delta Campus" in Berlin with a food court, gym, rooftop, unlimited snacks & drinks

If this role sounds like a good fit, we’d love to hear from you.