You will work closely with our Customer Success and Product Development teams to help manufacturing companies bring their data into IQA, our SaaS solution for digital lean management. As a Data Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for the preparation, validation and integration of customer data. You will play a crucial role in making customer data come alive in IQA and helping manufacturers run more efficiently than ever before. Your tasks include:

• Analyzing, understanding, and processing manufacturing process data from our customers to enable a smooth onboarding experience
• Developing robust data processing pipelines and workflows that enable fast, efficient, and reliable onboarding and continuous data integration for our customers
• Creating customer value by exploring customer usage patterns to help improve our software and ensure IQA delivers measurable impact
• Being the link between data and people by engaging directly with customers to gather data, understand requirements, and plan for ongoing data ingestion and integration
• Simulating manufacturing processes to generate synthetic datasets for demos, testing, and validation of new IQA features

• Strong Python skills, including experience with data science and scientific computing libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy, simPy) 
• Solid background in data analysis, processing and transformation as well as familarity with databases and building data pipelines. Knowledge of ERP systems or IIoT platforms is a plus
• A genuine enthusiasm for driving the digital transformation of manufacturing and contributing to more sustainable production through innovative solutions like IQA
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work independently with a proactive mindset and strong sense of ownership
• Willingness to travel occasionaly for customer meetings and workshops
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or related technical fields
• Excellent language skills (English and German C1)
• Some knowledge of manufacturing processes is a bonus
• If you choose to work remotely: Residence within Germany and willing to travel to Cologne (by train) from time to time for in-person workshops or team events

• We work differently, we highly value transparency, integrity and authenticity. We trust and respect each other, which leads to a very collaborative working environment where we ensure that everyone can contribute ideas and decisions are made based on competency.
• We are agile and fast paced, you will have the opportunity to take on as much responsibility as you want to and go beyond your job description to push your personal and our progress. 
• We truly care about work culture and make it a priority by regularly spending time reflecting on our teamwork, by actively committing work time to keep our strong team spirit and by incorporating activities into the workday to create balance.
• We contribute to fighting climate change by helping our industrial manufacturing customers reduce their carbon emissions with our products, by being aware of our own environmental impact and by being carbon neutral as a company.
• All other benefits that make work more pleasant like flexible hours, part-time options, possibility to work remote, regular team events and offsites, 30 days PTO, weekly yoga sessions etc.