Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Picnic
Amsterdam, Netherlands
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Fraud Prevention and Detection Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Recommender Systems Standard Sql Software Engineering Kubernetes Information Technology Operational Systems Machine Learning Operations Docker

Job description

As a Machine Learning Engineer at Picnic, you will design and deploy intelligent systems to solve our company’s biggest challenges. Beyond building models, you will productionize them with strong monitoring and seamless integration into operational systems. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved and that solutions deliver real-world impact.

All using high quality data. Our data is registered, logged, and consistent, enabling you to focus on building and improving models rather than cleaning data. This role combines the skills of a consultant, software engineer, and applied mathematician., * Identify and execute improvement possibilities together with other ML Engineers and (product) analysts

  • Collaborate on your project from inception to production, to continuous improvement
  • Develop tools and enhancements for our cloud-based Machine Learning platform

You could work on various projects and fields, such as:

  • Demand forecasting: delivery, article, trip volumes, used Picnic-wide
  • Fraud detection: helping us keep troublemakers out of our store
  • Recommendation systems: generating useful in-app grocery suggestions
  • Search and ranking: helping our customers find exactly what they need
  • Predicting delivery drop-off times: making sure we’re on-time at every customer’s door
  • Vision: ensuring quality control and smooth operations within our warehouses

Check out some of our previous machine learning projects here: https://blog.picnic.nl/tagged/machine-learning

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or higher in AI, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in data science or applied machine learning
  • Excellent communication skills, you can clearly explain complex ideas in non-technical terms and enjoy working closely with business stakeholders to solve problems together
  • Experienced in designing, deploying, and maintaining production ML systems, with solid software engineering and ML principles
  • Strong Python and SQL skills
  • Able to define the long-term vision and technical architecture for ML solutions within your domain
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI is a plus

Benefits & conditions

Health insurance discount & bike plan

We have a partnership with CZ (a health insurance provider). Picnic employees get a discount on CZ insurance packages between 5% and 15%. Furthermore, through our partnership with Lease a Bike, you can rent-to-own a new (e)bike at a discounted rate

About the company

With more than 80 nationalities across 3 countries, you’ll be part of a diverse company with plenty of cool stuff to get involved with, from board game evenings to after-work drinks to our company ski trip and more!

Make a difference

You’ll work in an awesome startup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact. Our fully electric vehicles and sustainable business model mean you’ll also be contributing to making the world a better place!

Fresh Lunch, coffee, and snacks

Our offices are equipped with fully-fledged coffee bars and a kitchen and chefs. They prepare delicious fresh and warm lunches every day so you can keep your energy up.

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