Peec AI

engineering manager data science for AI search analytics

In short

This role leads and builds a data science team at an AI search analytics startup, owning the full ML lifecycle for models powering AI search recommendations and reverse-engineering LLM behavior. The company is a Series A startup (backed by 20VC and Singular) with over 100 people across Berlin and New York. It requires 8+ years of data science experience with at least 3+ years in a leadership role at a top-tier startup or FAANG-level company, strong Python and ML skills, and deep understanding of LLMs. The position is onsite in Berlin, full-time.

About Peec AI
Peec AI is an analytics platform for AI search. It helps marketing, SEO, and growth teams measure brand visibility across AI platforms, compare their brands with competitors, and identify opportunities to improve visibility. The company is a Series A startup backed by 20VC and Singular, with a team of over 100 people across Berlin and New York.
Responsibilities
•Build, mentor, and lead a data science team, communicating complex technical ideas to executives, customers, and partners
•Design, train, deploy, and own the models powering AI Search recommendations
•Develop and ship algorithms that reverse-engineer AI search and LLM behavior and create customer-facing product advantages
•Own the full ML lifecycle, from research and experimentation through production deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
•Architect and evolve scalable data and ML systems, making decisions across data pipelines, modeling approaches, evaluation frameworks, and model serving
•Write and review production-grade code, setting the technical bar for the organization
Requirements
•8+ years of professional data science experience
•At least 3+ years in a leadership or managerial role at a top-tier high-growth startup or FAANG-level tech company, such as Tech Lead, EM, or SDM
•Experience building and shipping category-defining ML products in high-growth or frontier environments
•Demonstrated experience personally owning and scaling complex ML systems from research ideas to reliable, high-impact production deployments
•Exceptional command of Python and applied machine learning, with systems-level understanding of APIs, data pipelines, ML infrastructure, and production reliability
•Deep understanding of LLMs and AI search systems, including evaluating, reverse-engineering, and reasoning about emergent model behavior
•Experience making consequential architectural and modeling decisions in cloud-native environments; GCP is preferred
•Strong judgment, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the credibility to set direction and lead through ambiguity
Nice to have
•Recognized contributions to open-source projects or foundational ML tooling
•Public side or research projects demonstrating exceptional technical depth
•Publications or talks at top-tier ML or AI conferences
•Founder experience or senior technical leadership in high-growth startups
•Fluency in TypeScript
Conditions
•Equity, including an aggressive equity compensation package
•Regular team events and off-sites
•Paid dinner and Uber home when working late
•Office space and work environment in Berlin

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