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As our AI Engineering Lead, you’ll take on the harder challenge: turning ambitious ideas into trusted, production-ready technology. You’ll lead a specialist team, shape the architecture behind our AI ambitions and play a defining role in how AI transforms DataGuard.\nWE PROTECT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE DATA\nWe are a fast-growing security and compliance tech company with a clear purpose: we protect the people behind the data. With over 200 team members worldwide and with offices in Munich, Berlin, London, Stockholm, and Vienna, we help more than 4,000 global customers get certified fast and build a strong and scalable risk posture. With AI-powered automation, self-serve capabilities, and additional tailored expert advice, we offer our customers a seamless security and compliance experience to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving security landscape and challenges like the surge in cyber-attacks.\nWHAT YOU'LL BE DOING\nOwn the target architecture for DataGuard’s AI technology and guide the transition from early-stage solutions to reliable, scalable production systems\n\nLead and develop our three-person AI functional team, setting clear technical direction, priorities and meaningful development paths\n\nUnderstand the DataGuard product ecosystem and identify where AI can create genuine customer and business value across the platform\n\nDefine robust engineering standards for validation, reliability, observability, testing, security, documentation and controlled releases\n\nPartner with Engineering, Product, Data Operations and selected business teams to deliver high-value AI initiatives without creating unsupported or unscalable solutions\n\nBalance architectural depth with pragmatic delivery, making thoughtful trade-offs while maintaining momentum in an ambitious scale-up environment\n\nWHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN\nThe proper tools and capacities to build up and lead an ambitious, international team with diverse skill sets\n\nEnjoy the freedom and trust to bring in and execute your ideas with a quick pace, autonomy, and the ability to make impactful decisions.\n\nGain strategic insights into management topics with the opportunity to actively contribute, working closely alongside leadership and executive peers.\n\nRapid development opportunities, attractive performance bonuses, and the opportunity to strengthen your leadership skills and business expertise\n\nStep into a stable, forward-looking role within a dynamic scale-up poised to shape the fast-growing Security & Compliance industry\n\nTHE QUALITIES YOU'LL NEED FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AT DATAGUARD\nExcellent academic background in computer science, machine learning, mathematics or a related quantitative field\n\nStrong experience taking AI/ML systems from prototype to reliable, scalable production\n\nExcellent architectural judgement and the ability to make clear, pragmatic technical trade-offs\n\nExperience leading a specialist team while remaining technically credible and hands-on\n\nHigh engineering standards across testing, observability, security and release quality\n\nStrong communicator who can turn complex AI topics into clear decisions across technical and business teams\n\nLAST BUT NOT LEAST. 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