Machine Learning Software Engineer

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The Machine Learning / AI team’s mission is to dramatically improve our customers’ experience by automating tasks they do on their products, such as categorising products in a predefined taxonomy (which may change from one customer to another) and detecting and extracting product attributes through the product description.

As a Software Engineer in the ML / AI team, you will work on reinforcing, optimising and scaling our Machine Learning infrastructure. You will work directly with Machine Learning Engineers to design and implement automatic training pipelines on a large amount of data and a scalable way to serve them for inference.

Joining us is not only an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects and deliverables but also to be part of a team of experts in their domain, learning many things from them as well as sharing your own expertise.

While experience with machine learning is not mandatory, we do require significant experience in software engineering and a keen interest in learning and working with machine learning engineers.

What you’ll do :

• Write robust Python software code in our machine learning repository while applying best software practices to support Research Scientists in tasks such as fetching training data, preprocessing it, and orchestrating the training runs.
• Optimise the inference software such that multiple Machine Learning models can be applied within the same job (especially for extraction where we have multiple models running for this task, according to the attribute’s nature) and such that the appropriate models are executed for each job.
• Maintain the infrastructure in which the ML models are trained and deployed.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Python and software engineering best practices, ideally in a company in which you worked hands-on with machine learning engineers and data scientists.
• Understanding of modern machine learning concepts and state-of-the-art deep learning.
• Write clean and maintainable code.
• Ensure software quality through testing and code review.
• Optional: DevOps experience, especially in managing large-scale ML infrastructure.
• Optional: Experience working with training frameworks, ideally PyTorch.

Diverse, cross-cultural team.

General

• Competitive package and complementary health insurance.
• Flexible working hours, hybrid home / office policy.
• 33 days paid leave if you are the second parent (instead of 28 days).
• Individual and confidential coaching sessions with a mental health practitioner of your choice.
• Massage sessions offered regularly and at a reduced price.

Equipment

• Best-in-class communication and collaboration tools: Slack, Notion, Google Suite, Jira, GitHub...
• Choose between MacOS or Linux.
• Personal remote allowance to maximize your home office environment.

Professional Development

• Participation in in-house events welcoming external guests (ie. Meetups) or industry events.
• Group and individual training opportunities.
• Get your Swile lunch card funded at 50% by the company.
• Receive a 50% discount on the transportation pass of your choice.
• Take advantage of our company crèche whether you need a nursery spot (subject to availability), emergency childcare, or care for Wednesdays and school vacations.

Corporate Responsibility

Employee Volunteering program: give back to the community with two days per year dedicated to supporting the charities of your choice.

Diversity & Inclusion: Akeneo provides and ensures a safe work environment for everyone, regardless of seniority, gender identity, and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other characteristics. Akeneo is deeply anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, and inclusive. We create the right conditions for you to feel safe and be yourself!