{"id":4022210,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dish-senior-data-scientist-ai-engineering-mfd","title":"Senior Data Scientist (AI Engineering) (m/f/d)","company":{"id":723132,"name":"Dish","domain":"dish.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/dish-4","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Personio","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Düsseldorf, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Hallucination","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"dbt","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T11:46:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T15:28:54Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"Your Contribution\nDo you combine strong statistical and machine learning expertise with the ability to build agentic AI solutions from the ground up?\nJoin us to create AI that makes a difference twice: for DISH, by digitizing and automating commercial processes, and for hundreds of thousands of restaurants, by helping them run their businesses smarter. As a trusted AI partner to the business, you will turn complex challenges into pragmatic solutions and drive innovation from idea to production.\nMenu of Responsibilities\nBuild predictive machine learning models and use statistical analysis to generate actionable business insights.\nPartner with Commercial, Marketing and Operations stakeholders to identify needs, shape use cases and translate business challenges into effective AI solutions.\nDesign, build, evaluate and scale production-ready agentic AI solutions that automate and improve commercial processes.\nPrepare and facilitate AI and data science workshops that turn ideas into concrete digitization opportunities.\nApply spec-driven development and strengthen standards, best practices and automation across the end-to-end data science and AI workflow.\nEvaluate emerging AI tools, frameworks and architectures and adopt them when they deliver clear business or technical value.\nIngredients for Success\nMust-HaveProven experience in data science and machine learning, with strong Python and SQL skills and hands-on expertise in statistical analysis and predictive modeling.\nProven hands-on experience building LLM-based applications or AI agents, with the ability and motivation to develop production-ready agentic solutions.\nSolid understanding of LLM evaluation, retrieval and grounding, hallucination risks, and cost-performance trade-offs.\n\nAbility to turn business problems into pragmatic, production-ready AI solutions, balancing business value, technical quality and scalability.\nStrong communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders and co-create solutions.\nStrong ownership, initiative and collaborative problem-solving skills, combined with professional proficiency in English.\nNice-to-Have\nExperience with MLOps, data engineering, dbt or comparable data-modeling approaches, solution architecture, Google\nRecipe Card\nDISH has more than 410k customers across multiple countries, with a diverse team representing over 34 nationalities. Our products range from reservation solutions to payment terminals, providing a broad toolkit for independent, small to medium-sized restaurants to digitize their businesses. With around 200 employees, we work closely with METRO across its countries to transform the HoReCa sector with our innovative solutions.Join our HoReCa Revolution\nReady to build AI solutions that change how a business works? This is your opportunity to take ownership of meaningful AI challenges, influence how we work with data and AI, and build solutions with visible impact for DISH and our customers.Be one part of many chefs\n GET THINGS DONE QUICKLYJoin our fast-paced environment where we push boundaries and actively challenge ourselves to digitize the HoReCa (Hotel, Restaurant, and Catering) world. By joining DISH, you will directly contribute to our goal of becoming a data-driven company within the METRO Growth Plan.\nOWNERSHIP\nAt DISH, you own your projects, regardless of your job level. We encourage you to stand up for your ideas, think outside the box, and always question the status quo. Your unique perspective can make all the difference!\nFLEXWORK\nWe know that life happens and we cater your needs to integrate work from where you work most productive.\nINNOVATION & AGILE WORK\nWe understand the value of learning from mistakes and know that every setback is an opportunity for growth and improvement. In our agile working culture, we learn from each other and embrace an entrepreneurial mindset.\nDISHVERSITY\nJoin an international company with members from over 34 different cultures. Together, we celebrate diversity and respect our multinational backgrounds.\nDISHPOWERMENT\nOur commitment extends beyond business success - we want our employees to thrive! There are loads of opportunities for skill-building and career development. You are never alone; we have got your back! Whether it is your manager, your team, or colleagues from other departments, they are all here to empower you!\nCUSTOMER CENTRICITY\nUnderstanding our customer is essential. We are experts in the market and are passionate about creating digital solutions for our customers to truly live their passion. 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