Head of Applied AI (m/f/d)

Job description

*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.* **Your mission:** As the Head of Applied AI, you will lead enmacc’s transition into an AI-first trading platform. You will unify our distributed data talent into a high-performance subdepartment, spearheading a dual-track strategy: leveraging **Classical Data Science** for market intelligence and **Modern LLM Development** for product automation. You are the bridge between raw energy market data and the intelligent features that will define the future of commodity trading. **Your Responsibilities** #### **1. Data Science & Predictive ML** - **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. #### **2. 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. **Your profile** - **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. *Don't match every single requirement? We still want to hear from you!* ### **Our offer** - 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. ***About enmacc*** *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.* *As anEqual Opportunity Employer, enmacc is a diverse environment where all backgrounds, identities, and cultures are welcomed and celebrated. If you're excited about this role, apply and help us shape the future of energy trading!*