AI / Machine Learning Engineer

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.

We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Machine Learning Engineer / Gen AI Engineer who will serve as our GenAI expert, so they should have hands-on experience in developing GenAI powered chatbots and good understanding of text processing techniques in machine learning (Natural language processing), and should closely follow all new development in GenAI field so they can provide valuable recommendations for how to implement them to drive business value.

ACTIVITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

The Machine Learning Engineer / Gen AI Engineer will be responsible for:

• Writing clean and efficient code.
• Having innate curiosity and closely following all things happening in the GenAI world. This field is rapidly evolving, and the person should be interested in it to know about all the latest developments.
• Experience in Natural Language Processing models (NLP).
• Able to think from an "Effort vs Impact" perspective to ensure that work is adding business value.
• Able to guide Nestlé in what is feasible via GenAI and what would not work.

EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND REQUIRED

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a similar field. Master’s degree in a similar field is strongly preferred.
• High initiative, self-starter, and able to work with limited supervision.
• Facilitation and presentation skills, organization and time management.
• Experience in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Orchestrating agentic framework.
• LLM evaluation (using llm-as-a judge and other metrics like BLEU).
• Nice to have:
  • Experience in fine-tuning LLMs.
  • Understanding when to use the right LLM (large or small) for a specific task.
  • Use of MLFlow to capture LLM logs.
  • Experience with vector databases.

About the IT Hub

We are a team of IT professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé’s digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace.

How we will proceed:
You apply/send us your CV → We contact relevant applicants → Interviews → Feedback → Job Offer communication to the Finalist → First working day.

We offer you:

• Great benefits including competitive salary and a comprehensive social benefits package.
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset.
• Hybrid working environment with flexible working scheme.
• Recreation activities such as yoga, Zumba, etc. and a wide range of volunteering activities.