Senior Software Engineer

Vor 5 Tagen

Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland Cortea AI Vollzeit 80.000 € - 120.000 €
About us

We're Cortea, a Berlin startup transforming audits with AI. Manual, document-heavy audits waste expert time; we automate the repetitive parts so experts focus on judgment. Backed by top-tier VCs with €10m+ funding, live product, paying customers. We value first-principles thinking, speed, trust, and kindness. We build side by side in our Berlin office.

Your Role

Own search at Cortea. You'll design and ship retrieval, ranking, and evaluation systems that power our AI agents. You'll also build the data pipelines behind them. You'll work closely with product, design, and founders to turn messy, real-world documents into precise answers.

What you'll do

  • Build and tune retrieval and ranking: lexical + neural

  • Own evaluation: datasets, metrics, dashboards, and regressions

  • Design data pipelines for ingestion, enrichment, and classification

  • Ship production code: Python services, APIs, SQL models, tests

  • Improve relevance through experimentation and systematic analysis

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a software engineer or applied scientist with hands-on information retrieval work

  • IR fundamentals: BM25, TF-IDF, and neural retrieval

  • Evaluation: comfortable with NDCG, MRR, and when to use each

  • Data & software: Python (asyncio, type hints, pandas) and strong SQL (modeling, window functions, CTEs, optimization)

  • Production APIs: design, implementation, and maintenance

Bonus

  • Ranking systems: learning-to-rank, re-ranking, relevance tuning

  • Distributed compute / orchestration: Spark, Ray, or Temporal

  • Search engines: Elasticsearch / OpenSearch at scale

  • Warehouses: BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar

  • Post-training LMs for retrieval/ranking

  • Data engineering experience

No one checks every box. If you've shipped retrieval systems and like owning evaluations and pipelines, let's talk.

What we offer

  • High impact & growth: Shape strategy at a scaling AI startup from day one

  • Mission-driven culture: Ambitious team valuing first-principles thinking and bold ideas

  • Competitive compensation: €80-€120k salary plus significant equity

  • Personal development: Learning budget for courses and conferences

  • Startup perks: Flexible vacation, team lunches, retreats, central Berlin office

Interview process

  • First Call — Intro to Cortea with our Founders Associate Leon

  • Second Call — Technical interview with Rino

  • Third Call — Deep dive into our culture with Philipp

  • On-site Half-Day (Berlin) — Meet the team and work on a real problem together

We're an equal-opportunity team and encourage women and underrepresented groups to apply.

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