Job Description

Who We Are

Founded in 2017, Unit8 is a fast-growing European AI and data analytics consulting and services company dedicated to solving complex problems of traditional industries like automotive, chemical, financial services, manufacturing and pharma. We work with some of the biggest organisations in Europe to solve the challenges that directly affect their business - be it operations, finance, manufacturing or R&D. Since our foundation, we have successfully delivered more than 350 projects and have grown to 170+ talented individuals across 9 office locations in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, US, and Middle East

Unit8’s mission is to drive the adoption of AI and Data Science in the non-digital industries and to help accelerate their digital transformation. Among its activities, Unit8 dedicates a part of its resources and time on projects that deeply matter to us - that includes collaboration on pro-bono and “engineering for good” causes. You can learn more about what we are passionate about at Unit8 Talks and on our website you can find more useful information about our business and recruiting process.

These are some examples of projects that we have been working on

• Building a real-time production line monitoring system for the pharmaceutical industry to improve manufacturing throughput. Technologies: AWS, EKS, CloudFormation, Docker, Python
• Building system for calculating and delivering global climate scores i.e. estimating the impact of climate change on the risk of natural disasters (i.e. floods, wildfires & droughts) for the Insurance Industry. Technologies: PySpark, Python, Proprietary Data Processing Platform
• Building a modern data science platform including a data lake for Chemical Industry. Technologies: Azure, ML Studio, Data Factory, Databricks, Spark

What You’ll Do

Unit8 is growing at a fast pace and your role can evolve and will depend on our clients’ challenges. As a member of agile project teams, your mission will be to build solutions and infrastructure aiming at solving business problems of our clients.

In general, you will:

• Design, build, maintain, and troubleshoot data pipelines and processing systems that are relied on for both production and analytics applications, using variety of open-source and closed-source technologies .
• Help drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality.
• Collaborate with other software engineers, ML experts and stakeholders, taking learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
• Work in multi-functional agile teams to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.
• Interact with our clients to understand their data-related challenges and related tech and business questions they need to answer.

Requirements

About you

As a member of agile project teams, your mission will be to build solutions and infrastructure aiming at solving the business problems of our clients.

• You are a proficient software engineer who knows the fundamentals of computer science and you master the Python programming language.
• You know how to write distributed services and work with high-volume heterogeneous data, preferably with distributed systems such as Spark.
• You are knowledgeable about data governance, data access, and data storage techniques.
• You have strong client-facing skills comfortable interacting with clients (business & technical audience), delivering presentations, problem-solving mindset.
• You understand the value of teamwork
• You are willing to travel to meet with our clients and the team (mainly in Europe - up to 15% of your time).
• An ideal candidate is fluent in English (mandatory) and fluent in Spanish

Benefits

What We Offer

• Opportunity to contribute to the growth of one of the leading Swiss data & AI consultancies

• Chance to establish and grow Unit8’s footprint in Spain
• Work on client projects that have a concrete impact on their business.
• Exposure to a wide variety of projects, industries, and technologies. Each client is different
• Ability to contribute to internal open-source projects like Darts ( https://github.com/unit8co/darts) or building our own MLOps platform.
• Since we do not yet have an office established in Madrid, the initial months will be fully remote However, our long-term goal is to transition to a hybrid working model (2 days/week from the office)
• Flexible working hours
• Dedicated budget for training
• Work with an international team made of more than 15 nationalities.
• Cross offices/company-wide frequent events (off-site or on-line).
• Fun Fund to spend with the team on after-work activities.
• Compensation package including base salary and profit sharing based on the performance of the company

Why Unit8?

At Unit8, we don’t just turn data into value – we empower the people who make it possible. If you are looking for a place where you can take ownership, your next chapter starts here.

• Trust from Day One: We rely on your expertise. Trust is the core of our culture.
• Meaningful Work: You drive things that matter and make others' projects easier through your work.
• Passion-Led Projects: We provide the environment where you can pursue your passion alongside top talent. If you are excited about the future, you belong with us.

Please submit your application materials exclusively in English.

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, skin color, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status.