AI Specialist (m/f/nb)

Our recipe for success

We are a reliable partner who makes the sourcing of technical supplies as easy and efficient as it gets for customers. We do this with passion and innovativeness, day in day out. Our product range comprises millions of quality items, customer‑centric solutions and services, and face‑to‑face expert advice. We are fully committed to this mission. We see change as a catalyst for opportunities, and supply customers with everything they need to successfully complete their projects. As a family‑run business, operating in a sustainable way and building long‑term business relationships are paramount to us. We stand for quality and reliability.

Your contribution to success

• Use Case Discovery & Framing: You will moderate workshops with the business units, identify pain points, and translate technical requirements into precise AI problems (target variables, data sources, model approaches).
• End-to-end project management: You will coordinate cross‑functional teams laterally and accompany AI solutions from feasibility studies to prototypes to go-live.
• Technical prototyping management: You will lead the development of PoCs (e.g., forecasting, NLP, or computer vision) and ensure model quality through experiment design and iterations.
• Scaling & standardization: You will develop AI blueprints and best practices to make solutions reusable across the group and avoid technical debt.
• Production & MLOps: Together with Engineering, you will define deployment pipelines, monitoring, and interfaces to ensure the stable transition of AI models into operation.
• Change Management & Impact: You will ensure the adoption of the tools in the specialist departments through training and tracking of KPIs (time/cost savings, quality gains).

Your success factors

• Completed degree in (business) informatics, physics, industrial engineering, business administration with a focus on operations, or a comparable qualification.
• You have in-depth experience in the technical implementation of AI solutions and combine this with a strong project management mindset (agile methods preferred).
• You have the ability to explain complex algorithms to stakeholders in an understandable way and translate business benefits into technical metrics.
• You are confident in data profiling and in evaluating data quality and availability for machine learning models.
• You are proactive and solution‑oriented, think in terms of systems, and have the stamina to drive change processes in a large organization.
• You are fluent in German and have a good command of English.

Your benefits

• We Are a Great Place to Work

  Our tolerant and empathic work environment enables you to help shape our company’s future, thereby giving you lots of room for personal development. Our unique company culture was officially recognised by the Great Place to Work institute.

• We Improve Your Work‑Life Balance

  Flexitime and hybrid working arrangements as well as a special leave allowance enable you to organise your workday around your needs. And we care about your children. Our head office in Hirschau operates a child day‑care centre that looks after your little ones.

• We Communicate at a Peer Level

  We are a family‑run business. Means friendly interaction is paramount to us. And when it comes to being a trust‑based horizontal organisation, around here, we practise what we preach.

• We Promote Health

  Which is why we offer a variety of services and activities centred around health and fitness. Regular medical checkups are top of the agenda. Moreover, for all those who like to keep fit, there is Conrad Sports Club based at our Hirschau office that provides a range of activities, coaching sessions and even an in‑house tennis court. Being healthy isn’t just about exercising, it’s also about a balanced diet. This is why food served in our cafeterias at Hirschau and Wernberg uses local produce and is freshly prepared.

At Conrad Electronic, we actively promote diversity and equality for all employees. Our jobs are open to all qualified applicants, regardless of their gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or ideology, disability, age or sexual identity.