Tech Lead - ML & Intelligent Automation

Job Title: Tech Lead - Machine Learning and Intelligent Automation

Location: Munich, Germany

Reports To: Chief Product Officer (CPO)

Tech Lead - ML & Intelligent Automation

You burn for delivering customer value. You love shipping solutions to customers and prioritize pragmatic solutions in production over perfect solutions that stay in research.

Company Overview

IPS (Intelligent Power Solutions) is a fast-growing international software company headquartered in Pullach (Munich), Germany, with a strong presence across global markets. We develop advanced solutions that transform operational data into actionable intelligence, enabling critical business and technical decisions in asset-intensive sectors.

Our product portfolio helps electrical power companies streamline operations and ensure a reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable power supply for their customers.

About the role

We're looking for a Tech Lead ML & Intelligent Automation who sits at the intersection of machine learning, intelligent automation, and real-world product delivery. You'll own the technical direction of our ML and automation efforts: defining architecture and standards, designing and delivering solutions, and making sure ML features reach customers.

You'll work in tandem with Product Management and Engineering, ensuring product ideas become real features, bringing experience with technical feasibility, trade-offs, and new technical advancements.

What you'll do

• Drive end-to-end delivery of ML and automation solutions — from scoping and architecture through to production rollout and measurable business outcomes.
• Set the standard for building safe, reliable, and maintainable AI systems — including guardrails, observability, and responsible deployment practices.
• Work in tandem with Product Managers and Product Engineering teams to deliver ML and intelligent automation features within products.
• Coach and support junior ML engineers and data analysts, embedding best practices and helping colleagues grow their technical maturity.
• Own and evolve the team's automation capabilities, identifying repetitive workflows and turning them into robust, maintainable scripts and pipelines.

What you bring

• Proven AI/ML delivery: You have designed and shipped AI solutions that produced measurable business value and know how to move solutions from protype to production.
• Safety and reliability focus: You have experience making AI and ML systems safe, reliable, tested, and observable.
• Python proficiency: Strong Python proficiency across the ML and automation stack. You are comfortable writing production-grade code.
• Automation experience: Experience building and shipping automation scripts that are robust and maintainable in production.

Preferred

• People leadership: Team lead experience — inspiring and mentoring junior engineers, delegating, and creating an environment where the team ships and grows together.

What we offer

• A roadmap and backlog of ML features that are core to our product offering
• A modern development environment with agile delivery teams Interesting problems in the energy space where you’ll contribute to making the energy transition happen, making our energy systems more stable, and sustainable.
• Be part of a purpose-driven, international company driving digital transformation in the energy sector.
• Work in a collaborative, flexible environment with strong growth prospects.

How you think about this role

A good solution deployed today beats a perfect one that ships next quarter. You navigate the tension between rigor and pragmatism without losing either. You treat the Product Team relationship as a continuous dialogue, not a hand-off. You understand that the Tech Lead's job is to shape how the team builds, while also taking responsibility for it getting built and shipped.