Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Who you are

• We are looking for a senior computer vision / machine learning engineer who has successfully built and shipped real-world products, ideally involving action recognition on video.
• You combine deep hands-on technical expertise with a pragmatic, experimental mindset and are comfortable working in a high-ambiguity, 0→1 product environment.
• You should enjoy collaborating closely with product and engineering stakeholders, shaping the technical direction, and iterating quickly on ideas to validate the riskiest assumptions
• University degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field (advanced degree is a plus but not mandatory)
• Significant hands-on experience in computer vision and machine learning, including designing, training, evaluating and deploying models in production
• Proven track record of building end-to-end CV/ML systems from 0→1 (ideally commercial products rather than purely academic projects)
• Strong expertise with video-based pipelines and human action or behavior recognition (e.g. retail, autonomous checkout or similar domains)
• Hands-on experience with vision transformers for temporal video understanding. Experience fine-tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is a strong plus
• Solid software engineering skills (e.g. Python and modern ML/CV frameworks) and experience working with real-world, noisy data
• Ability to work in a dynamic, high-uncertainty environment, prioritize experiments, and iterate quickly on technical approaches
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (e.g. product, backend, data, operations) and communicate complex technical topics clearly in English (B2 level or higher)
• Eligible to work in the hiring location
• Experience with privacy-aware or GDPR-compliant data pipelines, especially for video data
• Background in building or selecting annotation tools and workflows for computer vision training data
• Prior work on retail, autonomous stores using computer vision

What the job involves

• As a Senior Computer Vision/Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the technical discovery and early development of Scandit's new solution – from validating the riskiest assumptions to building and iterating on the first end-to-end prototypes. You will work closely with product, other engineering teams, and external stakeholders to turn real-world video data into robust, privacy-aware computer vision models that can operate in live retail environments
• This role connects cutting-edge CV/ML research with real-world product constraints – requiring both deep technical expertise and a pragmatic, experimental approach to building production-ready systems under ambiguity and time pressure
• Defining and prioritizing technical experiments to validate key risks (e.g. precision, recall, latency) for computer vision models in retail stores
• Designing and implementing end-to-end CV/ML pipelines on real-world video data, from data ingestion and preprocessing through model training, evaluation, and deployment
• Setting up and refining the human annotation workflow to create high-quality training and test datasets from video streams
• Collaborating with product managers and engineering leaders to clarify requirements, align on milestones, and translate business needs into technical roadmaps
• Selecting, adapting, and optimizing state-of-the-art computer vision architectures for suspicious behavior and action detection in unconstrained environments
• Providing technical leadership in the space of video-based computer vision applications, helping shape best practices and future hiring for the team

Benefits

• Additional day off on your birthday
• Hybrid working
• Health insurance & pension
• Equity plan