Senior Data Platform Architect | Robotics Hyperscaler | Munich

Senior Data Platform Architect | Robotics Hyperscaler | Munich On-Site)

AI Futures are partnered exclusively with the most exciting AI startup in Germany to find a Senior Data Platform Architect.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a new industry by building the operating system for physical-world intelligence. Funded by Tier 1 VCs the company are developing a new category of autonomous systems capable of delivering low-signature, persistent intelligence at scale, creating a programmable layer that connects the physical world to organisations and turns deployments into real insight. With initial applications in defence and long-term applications across security, infrastructure and industry, the company is scaling from 50 to 200 people in 2026.

This is a chance to get in at the perfect time, work on one of the most technically ambitious AI deployments in the world, learn from a team of A Players and exited founders, experience long-term career development and profit from the equity upside.

The Role:

• Hands‑on architect responsible for the end‑to‑end data flow from devices to cloud, treating data as a product and enabling analytics and ML/AI at scale.
• Own the data architecture from device → field hub → cloud, ensuring data is available for analytics, training and AI use cases
• Design and evolve a data‑mesh‑aligned platform, where data products are well‑defined, governed, and consumable by teams
• Enable ML/AI workflows by ensuring high‑quality, well‑modeled, and accessible datasets
• Work with heterogeneous data types, including sensor data, motion data, audio, images, and video
• Define and enforce data governance, including multi‑tenant customer isolation and controlled data sharing
• Acts as a hands‑on architect, building and improving pipelines, schemas, and platform tooling while guiding decisions via ADRs

The Candidate:

• 50–70% hands‑on contribution to platform and pipeline implementation
• Strong experience designing scalable telemetry and data platforms
• Practical application of data mesh principles and data products
• Experience working with heterogeneous data (sensor, audio, image, video)
• Strong focus on ML/AI enablement and analytics workloads
• Expertise in data modeling, data quality, schema evolution, and metadata management
• Strong understanding of data governance, including multi‑tenant and customer data isolation
• Hands‑on experience with AWS‑based data platforms e.g. S3, Glue, Spark, Iceberg
• Uses ADRs and collaborative architectural decision‑making
• Improves CFRs i.e. reliability, scalability, security, performance

This is an opportunity to get in at the perfect time, work on one of the most technically ambitious AI deployments ever, learn from a team of A Players and exited founders, grow with the company and get equity.

Package with strong VSOP opportunity.

If you would like to explore this opportunity, please message me by 6pm Wednesday 12th August.

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