Full-time R&D Engineer (f/m/d)

VAARHAFT is a young startup that deals with the authentication of digital media. In an age of publicly accessible generative AI, creating deepfakes has become child's play, meaning that the authenticity of digital images and videos can no longer be blindly trusted.

Our mission is to preserve the credibility of digital media and protect companies from fraud involving manipulated images, videos, or documents with our solutions. We are active in all industries where the credibility of digital images is essential. Among other things, we prevent image-based insurance fraud and uncover document forgeries in the banking sector.

As an R&D Engineer (f/m/d), you will play an important role in product development and work directly at the heart of VAARHAFT to realize our vision and secure our technological leadership. Your core contribution will be the strategic research and further development of the underlying neural network-based model architectures.

If you want to contribute your motivation and innovative ideas for the protection of credible digital media in a fast-paced environment and solve complex problems, you've come to the right place.

Tasks

Your responsibilities:

• You will analyze the latest research findings and deep tech approaches.
• You will design, test, and implement innovative processes to continuously exceed the performance of our own models.
• Through your continuous innovative strength, you will ensure that our technology remains the best on the market in the fight against manipulated digital media.

Requirements

Your qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, data science, machine learning or a comparable, highly quantitative field.
• Several years of proven experience in the research and development of deep learning models and neural network architectures in computer vision.
• Proven success in independently designing and implementing research projects.
• Confident in using AI application layers (e.g., Gemini, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude-Code, Codex, Gemini-CLI).
• Problem-solving skills and analytical thinking.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a passion for complex problems and their solutions.
• Nice to have: Experience with process automation frameworks (e.g., N8N, Make).

Benefits

Your benefits:

• Insights into a young startup where you can actively contribute
• New challenges with a steep learning curve in a motivated team and a fast-paced work environment
• Flat hierarchies and individual talent development
• Real startup life in our co-working spaces in the cities of Hamburg and Berlin, as well as flexible working hours and the option to work remotely up to 100% of the time
• Regular team-building events
• Urban Sports offer

At VAARHAFT, we value diversity and equal opportunity. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, disability, age, or sexual identity. It is important to us to create an inclusive and non-discriminatory work environment where everyone can fully develop their talents.