Lead Machine Learning Engineer

TBAuctionsAmsterdamOn-siteFull-time2 weeks ago

TBAuctions is seeking a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to head its ML & AI team and platform, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership. The role owns end-to-end ML/AI architecture, MLOps, recommendation and search systems, and AI agents, requiring 7+ years in ML engineering including 2 years leading technical direction.

What you'll do

Own the architecture of ML & AI systems end to end: data pipelines, feature and model stores, training and serving infrastructure
Design the architecture and orchestration of the AI agents platform with evaluation, monitoring and guardrails
Strengthen and contribute to the MLOps setup: automated training, validation, deployment, monitoring, experiment tracking and CI/CD
Design and build recommendation, search and ranking systems end to end
Deploy models as robust APIs and scalable microservices with Kubernetes
Design systems, write and review code, and raise the bar on engineering best practices
Identify and prioritize highest-impact opportunities and own the ML & AI roadmap
Frame business problems as ML tasks, define business metrics, and run A/B tests
Drive continuous improvement of ML & AI products
Work closely with product managers and other tech leads to align priorities
Manage business stakeholders and align them on priorities, scope and trade-offs
Lead, mentor, hire and grow a team of ML engineers

What you need

Must-have

PythonPySparkMLlibScikit-learnTensorFlowPyTorchMLflowKubernetes

Nice-to-have

JavaKotlin

Soft skills

CommunicationLeadershipMentoringStakeholder managementProblem framing

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