Head of Applied AI/Data

• Market Intelligence: Drive the development of predictive models, anomaly detection, and optimization algorithms tailored to the energy trading domain.
• Core DS Leadership: Oversee the transition of Data Science from product-specific silos into a centralized powerhouse that provides advanced analytics across the entire enmacc ecosystem.
• Statistical Rigor: Maintain high standards for model validation, feature engineering, and experimental design.

1. Modern AI & LLM Adoption

• Generative Strategy: Lead the adoption of LLMs and Generative AI. This includes building production-ready RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems, agentic workflows, and NLP solutions for unstructured trading data (chats, news, contracts).
• AI Productization: Move beyond “wrappers” to build deeply integrated AI features that solve complex domain problems, focusing on evaluation frameworks and cost-efficient scaling.
• Rapid Prototyping: Foster a culture of fast experimentation with the latest AI research to keep enmacc at the cutting edge.
• Strategic Leadership: Build and lead a unified Data & AI group, integrating existing specialists (Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and Data Science) into a high-velocity team.
• AI & LLM Roadmap: Lead the development and deployment of LLM-powered features. This includes exploring RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for domain knowledge, automated trade summarization, and intelligent market assistants.
• Product Innovation: Drive the ML roadmap for product development, identifying where predictive modeling and NLP can create a competitive advantage in energy and commodity markets.
• Technical Excellence: Provide hands-on technical mentorship. You should be as comfortable discussing vector databases and prompt evaluation as you are with CI/CD for ML (MLOps).
• Domain Integration: Partner with Product and Business leaders to translate complex trading requirements into technical AI solutions.

Your Team

You will consolidate a currently distributed team to foster architectural consistency and shared AI standards:

• Data Engineering (from Platform) - Ensuring the data “plumbing” supports real-time AI.
• ML Engineering (from Platform) - Managing the lifecycle of models from experiment to production.
• Data Science (from Product) - Translating business problems into statistical and algorithmic solutions., * AI & ML Expert: Proven experience in Machine Learning and, crucially, modern LLM development (e.g., working with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, open-source models, vector stores, and agentic workflows).
• Technical Foundation: You understand the full stack-from data warehousing to model monitoring. You can lead “the how” as well as “the what.”
• Trading Interest: You are genuinely interested in the trading domain. You see the potential for AI to navigate the complexities of energy markets and commodity flows.
• Strategic Builder: You are excited to define the culture, tech stack, and workflows of a brand-new department from the ground up.

Do you have experience in Natural language processing?, Do you have a Master’s degree?

Pulled from the full job description

• Gym membership
• Work from home, * Competitive compensation package, including 28 days of annual leave.
• Entrepreneurial, impact-driven culture with flat hierarchies and high autonomy.
• Hybrid & Workation flexibility that balances office connection with the freedom to work from home or abroad.
• €2,000 annual L&D budget plus 5 dedicated “Level Up” days to fuel your growth (for all full-time employees).
• Commute & Wellness support, including fully covered gym memberships and paid transportation for office days.
• Inclusive, international team that celebrates diversity and offers language classes to help you settle in.
• AI-first environment where you’ll collaborate with a dedicated AI Philosophy and cross-functional expert groups.
• Premium tech & workspaces, featuring top-tier Apple/Bose hardware in modern, dog-friendly offices.

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Munich, enmacc is a high growth scale-up with a diverse team of over 100 professionals. We’re passionate about energy, technology, and building something that makes a real impact. If you are looking for an entrepreneurial environment where your work directly contributes to a more sustainable and digital energy future, we invite you to submit your application below., enmacc is Europe’s largest over-the-counter trading platform for energy and environmental commodities. We are digitizing the world’s energy markets by replacing manual, outdated processes with speed, transparency, and liquidity.

Our platform empowers a massive network of over 2,400 active traders to manage risk and accelerate the global energy transition. By providing a secure and efficient trading environment for 650+ companies, we facilitate more than 14,000 monthly requests for quotes and 8,000 monthly trades. With a traded volume exceeding 60 TWh per month, enmacc enables energy suppliers, industrial companies, and trading houses to access the liquidity they need to thrive in a shifting market.