Machine Learning Engineer

• As a Machine Learning Engineer at Booking.com, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the travel experience for millions of users
• Your responsibilities include developing, training, and deploying advanced machine learning models to tackle complex problems such as fraud detection, personalized recommendations, and optimizing promotional campaigns
• You will collaborate closely with machine learning scientists, software engineers, and product managers to translate business challenges into machine learning solutions
• Additionally, you will engage in applied research to innovate and evolve new technologies, contributing to the development of reusable models
• Work in a multi-disciplined, highly skilled team where you will be developing scalable production-grade data and ML pipelines across the entire ML cycle while working closely with the teams’ applied machine learning scientists
• Work primarily with the Google Cloud Platform, utilizing and maintaining the infrastructure for technologies like BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Composer, Airflow and diverse set of ML frameworks
• Be responsible for SLIs/SLOs for ML systems, ensure system and model health, monitor data quality, performance and business impact, and devise mitigation plans
• Drive a culture of quality for all ML practitioners, maintain data security, integrity and quality, and make choices over the right technologies and coding methodologies
• Identify underlying issues and opportunities across the ML development cycle and introduce tools to be used within and outside the team for efficient development and testing
• Continuously evolve your craft, keeping up to date with the latest technologies
• Collaborate with relevant ML teams across the company to improve, scale and extend machine learning tooling and infrastructure

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Free access to Headspace for you and your loved ones
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Meditation and Breastfeeding rooms at the office
• Booking Cares - 2 days per year to volunteer and learn
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Pension plan
• Annual paid time off
• Parental leave - 22 weeks
• Grandparent leave - 10 days
• Care leave - 10 days
• Bereavement leave - up to 4 weeks
• Anniversary leave
• Working from Home Furniture and Ergonomic Support
• Working from Abroad - up to 20 days per year
• Discounts & Wallet credits to spend on our products
• Upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3
• Friends & Family Booking.com discount vouchers
• Free access to online learning platforms
• Development and mentorship programs to support career growth
• Access to trainings and workshops
• Team development opportunities
• Local discount programs
• Game rooms in offices
• On-site meals, coffee and snacks including vegan options- Experience running Machine Learning systems in production is a must, with knowledge on how to generate predictions for ML frameworks with high throughput
• BSc or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields
• Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience working in a cloud environment is a plus
• You have a ‘can do’ attitude and you act proactively and not reactively
• Willingness to learn and understand complex and multidisciplinary business problems and concepts related to booking.com business operations especially in marketing and finance fields
• Strong working knowledge of big data retrieval and processing tools
• Strong skills in coding and problem solving. Proficiency in at least one programming language; preferably Python. Knowledge of Java is a plus
• Demonstrable experience of multiple machine learning facets, such as working with large data sets, experimentation, scalability and optimization
• 3+ years of relevant work experience, involved with the application of Machine Learning Engineering to business problems in a commercial environment