About the Company

Who We Are:
Prior Labs is building breakthrough foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases—the backbone of science and business. Foundation models have transformed text and images, but structured data has remained largely untouched. We’re tackling this $100B+ opportunity to revolutionize how we approach scientific discovery, medical research, financial modeling, and business intelligence.

Our Impact:
We aim to be the world-leading organization working on structured data. Our TabPFN v2 model, recently published in Nature, sets the new state-of-the-art for small structured data. Our models have gained significant traction with 1M+ downloads and 3,500+ GitHub stars. We are now building the next generation of models that combine AI advancements with specialized architectures for structured data.

Backing and Momentum:
With €9M in pre-seed funding from top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, XTX Ventures, and Hector Foundation—and support from leaders at Hugging Face, DeepMind, and Silo AI—we’re moving rapidly toward commercialization.

About the Role

Location:
Berlin, Freiburg

Employment Type:
Full-time

Department:
All

Compensation:
€90K – €140K • Offers Equity

What You'll Do:

• Architect & Design: Design robust, scalable, and secure backend systems and production-grade APIs for serving and finetuning our foundation models.
• Build & Implement: Develop high-quality, maintainable code (Python/FastAPI experience highly valued) for core backend services.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional experience in a cloud engineering, data platform, or SRE role, with a proven track record of managing production infrastructure.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data-intensive systems, with a strong understanding of data modeling, storage, and processing technologies.
• Strong, hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Significant experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python.

What Sets You Apart:

• Experience building or managing infrastructure specifically for machine learning (MLOps, model serving frameworks, feature stores, data pipelines).
• Hands-on experience with modern data warehousing and processing platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
• Experience in a technical leadership or mentorship role.
• Contributions to relevant open-source projects.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package with meaningful equity.
• 30 days of paid vacation + public holidays.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, transportation, and fitness.
• Work with state-of-the-art ML architecture, substantial compute resources, and with a world-class team.