Experienced Machine Learning Engineer

About Picnic

Picnic is the world’s fastest-growing online supermarket. With a unique business model and a highly engaged customer base, we aim to revolutionize the world of logistics, delivery, and groceries. Beyond that, we love working towards a greener future by using purpose-built route-planning algorithms and running a 100% electrical fleet of delivery vans. But we’re just getting started.

Position

• Projects in various fields, such as:
  • Recommendation systems: generating useful in-app grocery suggestions for our customer
  • Search and suggest
  • Fraud and outlier detection
  • Forecasting demand: order volumes, article demand and trip forecasting, used Picnic-wide
  • Predicting delivery drop-off times for our distribution
  • Natural Language Processing: create automated systems to categorize and label Customer Success tickets
• Speccing projects with our data scientists and business stakeholders
• Taking the machine learning models already in production and helping them scale efficiently
• Defining and building the platform necessary to take our machine learning infrastructure to the next level
• Guiding the data science team in producing high quality, scalable code

Your qualification

• Master’s degree or higher in AI, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field
• 6 years of work experience
• Very experienced in Python and SQL
• Strong software engineering background: testing, setting up a (model-as-a-)service, coding standards, etc.
• Strong infra background: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and comparable tools
• Successful track record of developing and deploying production grade machine learning solutions at scale
• Familiar with unstructured data and related tools like NoSQL databases
• Superb communication skills and ability to transfer knowledge to the rest of the team
• Quality control: Commitment to excellence, performance, and efficiency

Technologies we use

• Python (Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, aiohttp - or we build our own packages)
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• SQL (Snowflake, Postgres)
• MongoDB
• Git
• Tableau

What we offer

Located in Amsterdam, our fun-filled office is the best place for you to focus on your Picnic projects. Equipped with your favorite hardware and surrounded by like-minded people, you’ll grow professionally and personally, while enjoying the startup life along the way. We like to keep our 40-hour work-week flexible around here.

Our tech team consists of 15 product teams, which handle tons of innovative projects. Sharing, mentoring and keeping up to date is a must at Picnic: Meetups, webinars, Lunch & Learn sessions, and our very own Tech academy make sure that’s taken care of. Your soft skills will get some attention as well, with tailored training and courses.

Our salaries are market competitive and our pension program will put your mind at ease.

Relocation package? Sure! If you join Picnic from abroad, we’ll cover your trip to Amsterdam, sponsor your Visa, and offer you a month of accommodation while you settle in.

If you are joining us from a country that doesn’t allow traveling to the Netherlands just yet due to Covid-19, there's a chance that your onboarding could take place remotely. We had lots of new team members starting their Picnic-journey remotely already, you can have a peek at how it's going here. What are you waiting for?