Principal AI/ML Scientist & Engineer - Berlin

Pipedrive is hiring a Principal AI/ML Scientist & Engineer in Berlin to lead applied scientists and machine-learning engineers while remaining hands-on with production systems. Hirings Online verified the official vacancy on August 6, 2026 and created this original briefing around the role's leadership, architecture, and German work-authorization requirements.

Technical and leadership scope

• Set technical direction for AI and machine-learning products that use structured CRM data and unstructured content to produce useful customer outcomes.
• Guide autonomous workflows, real-time reasoning, retrieval-augmented systems, vector search, and the infrastructure needed to experiment and deploy reliably.
• Mentor senior technical staff, raise engineering standards, and work as a high-impact individual contributor on the most important systems.
• Partner with platform teams on LLM operations, cloud architecture, data pipelines, feature stores, Kafka, containers, and distributed services.

Profile Pipedrive is seeking

• The employer asks for at least eight years in applied science or engineering across the complete production ML and AI lifecycle.
• Candidates need evidence of leading and scaling technical teams while still shipping systems that delivered customer or business value.
• Hands-on familiarity with agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, AWS or GCP, and modern data infrastructure is expected.
• Strong product judgment matters: your application should connect model and architecture choices to reliability, adoption, revenue, efficiency, or another real outcome.

Eligibility and application strategy

• This is a full-time hybrid position in Berlin. Pipedrive explicitly limits consideration to people who already have the legal right to work in Germany.
• The employer states that visa sponsorship and relocation assistance are not available for this vacancy. Do not apply on the assumption that sponsorship will be arranged later.
• Send an English resume or LinkedIn profile and include a short, specific reason your application deserves attention, as requested on the official page.
• No salary or closing date is published. Apply through Pipedrive's official Lever form and never provide payment or financial credentials during recruitment.