Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Malt
Freelance consulting marketplace
Open for applications
Freelance consulting marketplace
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Give people the freedom to choose who they work with
Role
Who you are
- Must be located in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom or the Netherlands
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience and a degree (Master or PhD is a plus) in a quantitative field
- Diversified experience building recommender systems (RecSys) or learning to rank models
- Ability to design machine learning (ML) models and put them into production
- Strong knowledge of a programming language, ideally Python
- Experience with ML libraries (Pytorch, Tensorflow, XGBoost, Scikit-Learn, LightGBM, …)
- Good knowledge of SQL
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a positive and cooperative attitude that fosters collaboration and teamwork both inside and outside the department
- Comfortable in navigating and excelling in fast paced environments with no playbook for success, and able to simplify
- Nice to have:
- Experience working with tech and product
- Experience with natural language processing (NLP), graph neural network (GNN) would be a huge advantage
- Experience with a Cloud environment, ideally GCP, as well as Airflow and BigQuery
What the job involves
- Collaborate with other data scientists to improve our search algorithm and recommendation systems used to match freelancers to projects
- Build new data products and models to improve freelancers or clients' experience on Malt
- Implement and test new models in production
- Design measurement and monitoring of models performance
- Advance the Data disciplines at Malt, including driving data best practices such as improving and automating processes, building new data tools and data sets, data education around the company and mentoring and developing others
- Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other onboardees at our office in Paris
Application process
- First call with Alex, Talent Acquisition Manager - Tech & Data, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer your questions. (45 mins)
- Interview with your future manager, Claire (VP Data) to discuss your experience and the role in more detail (30 mins)
- Technical discussion on machine learning with some members from the team (1h)
- Take home test (2 hours or optional if you have enough open source projects online)
- Data Past Project Interview (1h):
- Take home test or open sources projects debrief
- Presentation of a past project to the team
- Discussion with a stakeholder (Product, Marketing, Engineering or Operations)
- Final interview with a C-Level, to discuss Malt's long term vision
Our take
Malt is carving out a unique space in the European freelance marketplace by specialising in connecting companies with technically skilled freelancers like developers, data scientists, and project managers. This targeted approach sets it apart from broader platforms like Upwork and Fiverr, where diverse talents compete for projects often through low bids.
The company further distinguishes itself by offering dedicated account managers to companies. These account managers help source the right talent, handle payments, and manage legal and administrative tasks. This comprehensive service caters to the growing trend of digital nomadism, attracting skilled technical professionals seeking freelance opportunities.
Malt's success is evident in its funding, attracting significant investment, and growing its network to over 800,000 freelancers across five European countries. Its also secured partnerships with major companies like Unilever, Bosch, and L'Oréal, further solidifying its position as a leading player. Following its acquisition of competitor Comatch, it has set ambitious goals to become the go-to freelancer marketplace in Europe.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2021
$91.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$28m
SERIES C
Total funding: $127.9m
Company benefits
- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other onboardees at our office in Paris
- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options
- Lunch vouchers: €9/day on your Swile card
- Transportation: 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)
- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off
- Malt sabbatical: After three years, every Malter is entitled to a one month paid sabbatical leave
- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow
- Work from home for up to 2 days a week
- Annual team building events
Company HQ
Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris, France
Leadership
Vincent Huguet
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously a Corporate Development Manager at Telmex. Founded Mexico's leading online florist Algoespecial, and then co-founded online printer Groupe Aventers.
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