Working Student (f/m/d) – AI Engineering & Data Science

Description

You will join the Enterprise AI Center of Excellence, the company's technology group that embeds AI into business processes using high-quality data and next-generation search architecture.

The group designs, builds and runs AI platforms, custom solutions and digital assistants that make work simpler across the company's products and create business value.

Teams are agile and self-directed, and they value trust, creativity and ongoing learning.

The company has served organizations for over 50 years, covering finance, procurement, HR, supply chain and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with data scientists, data engineers, MLOps engineers and AI engineers on ML models and AI agents across the full lifecycle: data exploration, training, fine-tuning and optimization, production deployment, testing and monitoring.
• Talk with stakeholders to learn their business processes and the input data behind the models.
• Support a high-visibility AI project alongside experienced data scientists and AI developers.
• Learn data-centric AI development practices.
• Build on a modern cloud stack, including SAP BTP and hyperscaler services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one other programming or scripting language.
• Experience with one or more machine learning frameworks or agentic AI frameworks.
• Solid understanding of statistical methods and how to assess model quality.
• Strong spoken and written English.
• Genuine interest in applying machine learning or agentic AI to business problems.
• Experience working with complex tabular data.
• Nice to have: experience with explainability and interpretability of machine learning models.
• Nice to have: experience with deep learning architectures.
• Nice to have: knowledge of large-scale data analysis with Spark.
• Nice to have: experience with CI/CD frameworks.
• Nice to have: experience with MLOps tools.

Conditions

Regular on-site work at the Walldorf or Munich office is required, so the role is hybrid.

This is a paid working student position based in Germany.

The company is committed to equal employment opportunity and offers accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Paid working student role.