Your Responsibilities

Vendor Lifecycle & Operational Relationship Management

• Own the end-to-end third-party operational lifecycle, from initial onboarding and technical integration to continuous monitoring and eventual offboarding.
• Build and maintain strong, strategic relationships with key external partners, acting as the primary point of escalation for operational bottlenecks and service disruptions.
• Collaborate closely with Compliance, Procurement and Legal teams to ensure operational readiness and compliance requirements are met during the vendor selection and renewal phases.

Digital Operational Resilience & DORA Compliance

• Lead the implementation and ongoing management of ICT third-party risk management controls in strict alignment with DORA requirements.
• Maintain an accurate and up-to-date Register of Information detailing all ICT third-party service dependencies.
• Partner with InfoSec, Compliance, and Risk teams to conduct regular vendor risk assessments, evaluate concentration risks, and ensure third parties participate in required operational resilience testing (e.g., TLPT).
• Develop and maintain joint business continuity plans, robust vendor escalation matrices, and incident management protocols, ensuring alignment with DORA’s incident reporting mandates.

Performance & SLA Monitoring

• Define, implement, and track rigorous KPIs and SLAs for all third-party providers.
• Conduct regular Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and performance audits with key vendors to ensure continuous improvement and strict adherence to service availability targets.
• Design and maintain operational dashboards (e.g., via Looker, Tableau) to monitor vendor performance, dependency health, and risk metrics in real-time.

Process Optimization & Integration

• Design seamless operational workflows that integrate third-party services into our internal value chain without friction.
• Transition reactive, detective vendor controls into automated, preventive systems to build stronger system-based safeguarding mechanisms.
• Map and document product setups and process dependencies, ensuring the exact impact of third-party outages on customer orders is clearly understood and mitigated.

Your Profile

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Operations, Vendor Management, or Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), specifically within a regulated financial, FinTech, or SaaS environment.
• Regulatory knowledge (DORA): particularly its pillars relating to ICT third-party risk management, incident reporting, and resilience testing.
• Risk & Controls: Deep understanding of vendor due diligence, SLA formulation, and transitioning operational controls from detective to preventive models.
• Analytical Skills: Highly data-driven with the ability to build performance metrics and utilize data visualization tools [e.g., Looker, Snowflake, Excel/Google Sheets] to monitor vendor health.
• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams, compliance officers, C-level executives, and external partners.
• AI: Early adopter of AI productivity tools with a keen interest in how emerging AI governance impacts third-party risk and ICT resilience.
• Language: Fluent in English and a good command of German (B2).

Join our mission, join our team – and grow with us!

At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which connects more than 75 different nationalities.

As part of our team, you will benefit from:

• Employee Development Budget of €2,000 and four full training days per year.
• Flexible working hours, home office and 30 vacation days.
• A company pension scheme (Betriebliche Altersvorsorge), which we support with 20%.
• Enjoy more than 50+ different sports with Urban Sports Club: We subsidize your membership with more than €20 per month. 
• Do you miss being in the office? The Deutschland Ticket gets you there, which we subsidize with €25 per month.
• Love cycling? With JobRad, lease the bike of your choice and enjoy tax savings, plus Raisin covers your monthly insurance costs.
• Hungry all the time? Snacks, daily fresh fruit as well as drinks provided at the office.
• You are moving from another country or city to join us? We may support your relocation.

Software engineers and AI agents alike suffer from the same problem: finding that one person or place that will answer their tough, specific question. Many solutions promise to solve this with similarity search in vector databases. Unfortunately, finding the answer is often a puzzle with pieces to be collected across a myriad of contradictory sources and cannot be solved without surgical search and careful reasoning.

Spectrum collects data from an organization's code, docs, and issues, and organizes knowledge in a unified ontology that AI agents can efficiently search through and reason over. We aim to revolutionize the semantic layer space for software-building organizations and move beyond specs that fall out of sync with code, introducing a living spec – one that's extracted from the whole system and used to keep it aligned. Spectrum is meant to be the single source of truth for all product and architectural knowledge.

A resident of JetBrains' startup incubator, Spectrum enjoys startup speed and autonomy, and is backed by 25 years of developer tooling expertise. We are looking for a Senior ML Researcher to develop the core methods that make Spectrum possible – novel approaches to temporal ontology extraction, contradiction detection, and semantic alignment across heterogeneous software artifacts. You will help define and execute the research agenda, while also collaborating with JetBrains Research and external academic advisors.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing methods for LLM-based ontology construction from code, documentation, and issue trackers, including contradiction detection and reasoning over the resulting knowledge graph.
• Creating datasets, metrics, and benchmarks that drive measurable improvements across the system.
• Prototyping and validating research ideas, then collaborating with ML and software engineers to bring them to production.
• Collaborating with JetBrains Research and external academic advisors to shape our research agenda.
• Publishing research findings at top venues and representing Spectrum in the research community.

We expect you to have:

• A PhD (or equivalent research experience) in NLP, knowledge graphs, ontology learning, information extraction, or a closely related field.
• A strong publication record in at least one of the following areas: knowledge graph construction, ontology learning, information extraction, or NLP.
• Experience applying LLMs to structured knowledge extraction tasks.
• Experience designing and running rigorous experiments, including hypothesis formulation, ablation studies, and statistical evaluation.
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills, with the ability to implement research ideas from scratch.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

Our ideal candidate would also have:

• Experience with ontology engineering, semantic web technologies (OWL, RDF, SPARQL), or ontology alignment.
• A background in code analysis, developer tools, or software engineering research.
• Experience with knowledge graph embedding methods or graph neural networks.
• Experience in early-stage startups – you enjoy the zero-to-one phase.
• Actively contributed to relevant open-source projects.

What we offer:

• A competitive salary and JetBrains benefits.
• A generous runway and corporate resources with startup autonomy.
• Full support for publishing ML research and attending industry conferences.
• Collaboration with JetBrains Research and external academic advisors in the knowledge graph and ontology learning community.
• A motivated team that moves fast, with short feedback loops, rapid prototyping, and lots of ownership.
• A rare applied research role where your methods ship in a real product used by software teams.

Why join JetBrains? 

• Strong base salary. We offer competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience.
• Flexible work location. Enjoy the freedom to work from home or from the office.
• Remote work. Spend up to 30 days per year working remotely from abroad.
• Extra time off. More days to relax, recharge, and do the things you love.
• Medical insurance allowance. Enjoy peace of mind for you and your family
• Learning and development opportunities. Access to conferences, courses, and language classes.
• Language classes. Pick up the local language or sharpen your English skills.
• Fuel your day. Enjoy a hot meal or receive a lunch allowance on workdays.
• Mental health support. To help you feel your best, we provide easy access to professional mental health services.
• Sports benefit. Enjoy an on-site gym or sports club stipend.
• Internal events. Join company-wide celebrations and team gatherings.

*Some benefits may vary depending on location.

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