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# Principal Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Almedia
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, SQL Databases, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=542934c885005451

## About the Role

* A strong track record of taking ambiguous, high-impact problems from first principles to production independently
 * Deep expertise in statistics, causal inference, and experimentation at scale
 * Mastery of Python and SQL, with extensive hands-on cloud and production systems experience
 * A history of setting technical direction and raising the bar for engineering teams around you
 * The communication range to influence both engineers and senior business stakeholders

Bonus points for

 * Passion for gaming and a strong intuition for player behaviour
 * Experience in adtech, monetisation platforms, or the gambling industry
 * Familiarity with gaming KPIs such as pLTV, retention, and ROAS

## Description

You'll take ownership of the hardest ML problems across Almedia's products and growth. This is a hands-on role for someone who identifies what matters most, sets the technical direction, and drives it end to end with minimal oversight.

Types of problems you'll be solving

 * Designing and owning the strategy for user reward schemes at scale, across behaviour signals and market dynamics
 * Architecting real-time personalisation systems for reward values that operate at production scale
 * Defining how we detect and diagnose underperforming campaigns, and building the systems that act on it, * Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact ML systems: from problem framing through to production and iteration
 * Set the technical bar for ML across the org, establishing best practices and raising the quality of decisions
 * Define where ML creates the most business value and align the roadmap accordingly
 * Apply advanced statistical and causal inference methods with rigour and production-readiness
 * Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape how technical capability maps to strategic priorities

## About Almedia

At Almedia our mission is to engineer the future of user acquisition and revolutionize the advertising technology landscape.   
  
As a market leader, with our platform Freecash, we are reshaping how businesses connect with their audiences.


**Tech Stack:** React, Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL
**Industries:** Advertising, Gaming

[Company profile](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/companies/4058-almedia)

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