Senior AI Engineer

Avenga; Köln; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global technology consultancy is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Köln. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing scalable web scraping pipelines and integrating AI components for content management. Key qualifications include extensive experience in Python back-end development, web scraping, and NLP methods. This role offers competitive benefits, including flexible work arrangements and professional development opportunities.

Leistungen

Private health insurance

Well-being programs

Flexible and hybrid work models

Training and language classes

Social events

Great offices

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of experience in Python back-end development.
• Proven experience in web scraping and data extraction.
• Good knowledge of NLP techniques and deploying transformer-based models.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems.
• Comfortable using PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Git.
• Experience with dockerizing solutions and deploying to on-premises infrastructure.
• English: Upper-intermediate or higher.

Aufgaben

• Design and develop scalable web scraping pipelines.
• Implement content extraction and noise reduction logic.
• Integrate AI components for translation and summarization.
• Build pipelines to de-duplicate and normalize multilingual news content.
• Collaborate to optimize model inference performance.
• Design APIs to deliver aggregated news content.
• Monitor and maintain scrapers, adapting to site structure changes.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Kenntnisse

Python back-end development

Web scraping

NLP techniques

AI / ML methods

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Docker

Git

Tools

BeautifulSoup

Scrapy

Kubernetes

Redis

Selenium

Jobbeschreibung

At Avenga, we believe that human creativity empowers technology that matters. Operating globally, our 6000+ specialists provide a full spectrum of services, including business and tech advisory, enterprise solutions, CX, UX, and UI design, managed services, product development, and software development.

This is the job

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our team in collaboration with an innovative American client. As a Senior AI Engineer, you’ll have the autonomy to shape the core technology powering next-generation news platforms, directly influencing how news is aggregated and understood at scale.

Ready for the next step in your AI career? We’d love to meet you!

This is you

• 5+ years of experience in Python back-end development;
• Proven experience in web scraping and data extraction with tools such as BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, or similar;
• Good knowledge of NLP techniques and deploying / using transformer-based on-prem models (e.g., Qwen, BERT);
• Experience applying AI / ML methods for content translation, clustering, and summarization;
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems;
• Comfortable using PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Git;
• Experience with dockerizing solutions and deploying to on-premises infrastructure (Kubernetes clusters);
• English: Upper-intermediate or higher.

Nice-to-have skills :

• Experience working with multilingual datasets.

This is your role

• Design and develop scalable web scraping pipelines using BeautifulSoup, Requests, and / or Selenium;
• Implement content extraction and noise reduction logic for both structured and unstructured web data;
• Integrate AI components for translation, content categorization, clustering of similar news items, summarization (with preference for Qwen 32B model);
• Build pipelines to de-duplicate and normalize multilingual news content;
• Collaborate with AI / ML engineers to optimize model inference performance and ensure efficient data flow;
• Design APIs and back-end infrastructure to deliver aggregated news content to end-users;
• Monitor and maintain scrapers, adapting to site structure changes and ensuring data quality and integrity;
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, actively contributing to a collaborative team environment.

What awaits you at Avenga?

Through our values, Better Minds, Bolder Ideas, and Bigger Hearts, we strive to provide you with the tools, autonomy, trust, and assistance you need to excel. Enjoy benefits like private health insurance, well-being programs, flexible and hybrid work models, laptops and gear, training, language classes, social events, great offices, and more.

We take pride in the diverse skills and character of our teams, welcoming everyone to apply and contribute to our collective strength.