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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Quantum-Systems GmbH
- **Location:** Gilching, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Software Code Optimization, Data Auditing, Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Sensor Fusion, Rust (Programming Language), Deep Learning, Model Validation, Discretization, Information Technology, Lidar, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5926743917

## About the Role

* Proven track record designing and training deep learning models for production use
 * Experience with model optimization for resource-constrained environments (quantization, pruning, distillation)
 * Deep expertise in computer vision architectures or VLAs Architecture

Data Engineer (Geospatial Data & Sensor Fusion)

 * Experience managing large-scale datasets, including geospatial, image, or sensor data
 * Familiarity with drone-generated data types (imagery, LiDAR, telemetry, flight logs)
 * Experience with data quality assurance, annotation workflows, and labelling platforms
 * Experience with generation of syntetic data and simulation

What you bring to the team:

 * You hold a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or a related engineering discipline.
 * You bring proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Rust, C++)
 * You are passionate about solving complex technical challenges and enjoy improving real, hands-on UxV products trough your work.
 * Due to your open, communicative, friendly and competent attitude, it is easy for you to be considered as an internal expert.
 * You are highly self-motivated and drive your area of responsibility independently.
 * Communication in English is a matter of course for you.

## Description

As an ML Engineer (m/f/d), you will be a key contributor within our development team. Your responsibilities include preparing and selecting data, training and validating models, as well as deploying them on real embedded UAVs, UGVs, and USVs to enhance their capabilities.

You will work within a world-class team to help push the boundaries of autonomous drone technology.

In this role, you collaborate closely with stakeholders from hardware development, testing, production, and customer operations, driving continuous improvements in the autonomy of our UxV platforms.

By advancing intelligent autonomy, you will actively support Quantum Systems' mission to set the benchmark for next-generation UxV solutions.