Experienced Machine Learning Engineer

About Picnic

Building the supermarket on wheels
Started in 2015 in the Netherlands, Picnic now delivers groceries to millions across three countries, growing fast. The idea? We’re bringing back the milkman. Imagine personal service and fresh products but in a modern, sustainable way. We’re looking for bright minds to shape the future of grocery shopping with us. Ready to join the revolution?

Tech at Picnic
At Picnic we merge advanced technology with a customer-centric approach. We aim to create a simple, affordable, and enjoyable grocery shopping experience. Work on various aspects like our mobile app, store backend, internal development platforms, delivery routing, warehouse logistics, and ML models – all built in-house. We’re looking for problem-solvers who thrive in a collaborative environment. We are open to junior and experienced software, data and ML engineers. Our diverse team welcomes innovative and bold ideas.

Picnic perks
1. With a diverse team of over 80 nationalities, you’re sure to find your people
2. You’ll work in an awesome scaleup environment with the freedom to drive your own projects and create a visible impact
3. We offer a well rounded relocation package to help you make your new step

“At Picnic, we build the technology that powers the transition towards a sustainable food
supply chain where we delight customers with more choice, fresher products, and less
waste. The team behind this innovation loves to crack hard problems, uses data to
explore unbeaten paths, and strives to stay ahead of the curve in this fast-paced
industry.”
– Daniel Gebler, CTO

Want to learn more? Check out our blogs!

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?