Tracium GmbH

Senior Data Engineer — Document & AI Pipelines

Berlin, Germany remote Mid Salary not listed
remote Mid level Technology & IT Curated
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About the role

About Tracium
Tracium builds AI-assisted technical documentation software that turns complex manuals and engineering documents into structured, traceable information. Starting with maritime, we help technical teams extract maintenance information and create documentation through document intelligence and S1000D authoring.
Your role
You will build the data foundation connecting source documents, AI processing, human review, and downstream systems. Your focus will be reliable processing, clear data models, and traceability throughout the document lifecycle.
What you’ll do
Design document ingestion and processing pipelines for PDFs, XML, and related technical data.

Build workflows for parsing, enrichment, validation, indexing, and export.

Define data models for document structure, extracted entities, maintenance tasks, and source references.

Implement document versioning, processing history, and reproducible reprocessing.

Make pipelines resilient through retries, monitoring, automated checks, and clear failure handling.

Work with AI engineers to productionise extraction and retrieval workflows.

Support integrations with authoring tools, customer APIs, and ERP systems.

What you bring
Experience designing and operating production data pipelines.

Strong Python, SQL, and data modelling skills.

Experience with workflow orchestration, asynchronous processing, and object storage.

A practical approach to testing, observability, and data quality.

Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and infrastructure as code.

The ability to take ownership from initial design through production support.

Clear communication in English.

Useful additional experience
Document processing, XML.

Search indexes, vector databases, or AI data pipelines.

Multi-tenant platforms and private deployment environments.

Why join Tracium?
Own the data architecture of a growing product and help make complex technical information dependable, searchable, and usable.
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Send your CV or professional profile and a brief description of a pipeline or data platform you have built, including your contribution and the challenges you solved.
We welcome applicants of all backgrounds. You do not need to meet every listed requirement to apply.
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Technology & IT MySQL Python Sales SQL Writing Mid level

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  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the Senior Data Engineer — Document & AI Pipelines role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Tracium GmbH?
  3. Which of MySQL, Python and Sales have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. Describe a time you solved a problem without waiting to be told exactly what to do.
  5. How do you stay organised and communicate clearly when working remotely?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with MySQL, Python and Sales.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
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I am interested in the Senior Data Engineer — Document & AI Pipelines role because I can bring practical experience in MySQL, Python and Sales, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Tracium GmbH needs from this hire.

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