Hybrid Senior AI Engineer

at LiveEO

• Job title: Senior AI Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Python, PyTorch, Remote Sensing
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Senior AI Engineer developing multimodal architectures and training systems for satellite imagery analysis at LiveEO. Blend of research and practical engineering for impactful AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype multimodal architectures that combine optical and SAR inputs;
• Explore or adapt emerging foundation models for remote sensing tasks;
• Benchmark different modeling strategies and evaluate performance across diverse datasets;
• Build scalable training pipelines including tiling, sampling, augmentations, and distributed training workflows;
• Optimize pipelines for throughput, memory, and cost using Databricks, PyTorch Lightning, and MLflow;
• Automate experimentation, tracking, and comparison using MLflow and Databricks;
• Ensure your models and pipelines integrate smoothly into LiveEO’s production systems.

Requirements

• Strong Python engineering fundamentals with clean, maintainable coding style;
• Deep experience with PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning;
• Experience implementing and training deep learning models at scale;
• Strong understanding of ML experimentation, versioning, and tracking via MLflow and Databricks;
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills;
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud platforms;
• Geospatial experience is highly preferred, including tools such as GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, STAC, and basic SAR preprocessing libraries.

Benefits

• The opportunity to create a product that can improve business processes and lives across the globe;
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model - we trust our employees to get their work done while maintaining a healthy work-life balance;
• We empower employees to drive their own career development, take initiative and have the freedom to be creative and bold;
• Not an overtime culture - we take care that overtime is done only as a necessity and always offset with time off and rest;
• A collaborative and learning environment - frequent internal workshops, knowledge sharing sessions, journal clubs and hackathons;
• Office located in the centre of Berlin Kreuzberg with free fruit, nuts and drinks;
• Potential to participate in the employee stock option program;
• Urban Sports membership and BVG subsidy, corporate pension program;
• A diverse and vibrant international environment of 30+ different nationalities.