Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Matching Squad

About

Join our Staffing Tribe as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the Matching squad. You’ll have the opportunity to drive impact across our European markets and beyond, owning complex ML systems and defining production standards to drive innovation across our pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver machine learning models and pipelines in close collaboration with Data Science, Research, and Engineering teams.
• Own and evolve complex ML systems, ensuring they remain scalable, reliable, and maintainable in production.
• Drive technical excellence and best practices across the entire ML lifecycle, from modeling and evaluation to deployment and monitoring.
• Define and implement production standards that increase the quality and speed of development across the Data & ML organization.
• Translate complex business problems into robust ML solutions with measurable and durable impact on product outcomes.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, supporting the growth of ML practices and elevating the skills of less experienced team members.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and deploying machine learning models in production environments.
• Ideally educated to a high level in Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong knowledge of a programming language, ideally Python.
• Experience with ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, Scikit‑Learn, LightGBM, …).
• Good knowledge of SQL.
• Expertise in search, recommender systems, or NLP including LLM to influence system design and long‑term technical strategy.
• Fluent in English, with the ability to distill complex ideas clearly across teams.

Benefits

• Onboarding program: spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services at our office in Paris.
• Equity: every employee is entitled to stock options.
• Malt sabbatical: one month fully paid sabbatical leave every three years.
• Free books: we will order any books you want to read relevant to Malt’s business, without approval processes.
• Team building events organized every year.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Malt, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recruit based on skills, experience, and potential, without any form of discrimination related to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability. Our mission is to create a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and safe to thrive.

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