Senior Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Choco
3-5 days a week in office
Enabling a sustainable food system
Open for applications
Enabling a sustainable food system
201-500 employees
Open for applications
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Choco's mission is to lead a change in one of the oldest industries on the planet.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll need to be at the forefront of applied AI research and development, staying on top of industry advancements and constantly seeking ways to improve, validate, and deploy the latest models effectively
- You must be an exceptional applied researcher with the ability to turn complex AI technologies into scalable, reliable systems in production
- Excellence in engineering skills is a must, as you will be responsible for ensuring our AI models run efficiently, can scale, and meet the rigorous demands of our platform
- We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-execution environment—someone who can learn quickly, adapt to new technologies, take ownership and deliver impactful solutions
- You will collaborate with an amazing team, working alongside peers, engineers, and other experts to help us realize our ambitious vision
- If you have a passion for AI, the drive to innovate, and the engineering skills to execute at the highest level, we want to hear from you
- Expertise with LLMs: Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art language models like GPT-4o, including safely deploying them in production environments. Familiarity with applications and architectures involving conversational agents, fine-tuning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Search and Recommendations: Proven expertise in building personalized search and recommendation systems, with a deep understanding of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP) challenges like Named Entity Recognition (NER)
- Engineering Excellence: Strong programming and engineering skills, with the ability to design, build, and maintain scalable AI systems
- Communication and Collaboration: Clear, effective communication skills, with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into practical, actionable solutions for cross-functional teams
- Startup Mindset: Experience in fast-paced environments, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, take ownership of projects, and - most importantly - get shit done
- Our current tech stack includes AWS serverless stack, Databricks + mlflow, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic Cloud, the newest models from different vendors incl. OpenAI, Python with common libraries and frameworks. For data transformations, we primarily use SQL, dbt & PySpark
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer ready to make a true impact
- We have assembled an absolutely world-class AI team that you will be working with
- We work with cutting-edge tech and are an innovation driver in our industry and the broader European ecosystem
- We move fast. We commit to delivering user increments and advancing research on a weekly basis
- Team members rotate between a variety of challenging problems
- One week, you might be validating hypotheses and assumptions, demonstrating your conclusions in a defendable and reproducible way. The next week, you could be building a proof of concept, and in the third, you'll be shipping the first iteration of your work directly to our users
- Lead end-to-end development of AI and ML systems, incl. experimentation, deployment, optimization and monitoring
- Collaborate with and be part of cross-functional teams to integrate sophisticated models into our systems
- Carry the team through support, coaching, feedback, tooling, documentation, establishing best practices and knowledge sharing
- Develop innovative solutions for complex business challenges
- Understand and interpret complex business and customer challenges, translating them into actionable AI solutions
- Ensure AI systems are scalable, efficient, and effective
- Lead by example, demonstrating a strong work ethic, quick iterations, and a commitment to continuous delivery. Embrace and drive Choco's ambitious goals, thriving in a fast-paced, challenging startup environment
- Employ an agile approach, emphasizing swift delivery, responsiveness to feedback, and continuous improvement
Our take
The restaurant industry has seen vast technological innovations throughout the last decade, yet the state of supply chain ordering and administration does not reflect this. Restaurants are still using archaic paperwork to order from suppliers, and this has the tendency to become clunky, inaccurate, and result in food waste. Choco exists to improve this situation by connecting restaurants and suppliers through its food ecosystem management software.
Choco isn't the only company to notice the potential for disruption in this space, but it has taken a unique approach by providing bespoke inventory applications and analytical tools to both restaurants and suppliers. It has a large and rapidly growing userbase and its supply chain now links more than 30,000 businesses, with more than £1.2 billion in goods traded on its platform.
Choco raised large amounts of capital in several funding rounds and achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. It has eyes on expansion, currently working with clients across the U.S. and Europe but planning to begin operations in South America, the Middle East, and Asia in the near future.
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$26.3m
LATE VC
Dec 2022
$34.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335.8m
Company values
- Team
- Ownership
- Focus
- Understanding
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Daniel Khachab
(CEO)Experienced as Global Venture Development Manager and CEO of Rocket Internet SE. Co-founded Choco as CEO in 2018.
Julian Hammer
(CMO)Before co-founding Choco freelanced in product & marketing with Ace & Tate, BuzzHire and UpLabs. Before that was Senior Venture Associate with EPIC Companies and the Head of Marketing Intelligence for Global Savings Group.
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