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Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Location
Europe
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Machine Learning Scientist
SweatPals
• Frame fuzzy product problems as ML problems and pick the right approach: ranking, retrieval, classification, sequence models, LLM agents, or classic stats • Run end-to-end: data exploration, offline evaluation, prototype, online experiment, iteration • Push to the cutting edge when it matters, stay pragmatic when it doesn't • Own offline metrics (NDCG, recall@k, AUC, calibration) and tie them to online metrics (booking lift, retention, GMV) • Ship models to production with our engineering team. Our ML stack is FastAPI, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, AWS App Runner, with retrieval via FAISS and sentence-transformers, and managed LLM APIs (Claude, Gemini) • Build evaluation harnesses and monitoring so we know when models drift • Develop LLM-powered features across HostCopilot (drip campaigns, retention nudges, pricing and content suggestions) and Pal-facing surfaces (AI Concierge, semantic search, recommendations) • Partner with product to size opportunities and translate findings into roadmap decisions • Set the bar for the squad on ML rigor: offline evaluation, experiment design, and writeups
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of applied ML experience shipping models to production. Bonus if some of that was in marketplaces, search, or recommendations
- Track record of taking a problem from "vague PM ask" to "shipped feature that moved a metric"
- Comfort with the full lifecycle: framing, data, modeling, evaluation, deployment, monitoring
- Strong Python and SQL. You write production code, not just notebooks
- Solid foundations in at least one ML area: ranking and recommendation systems, NLP and embeddings, classical ML, LLMs and agents, or causal inference
- Comfortable with modern LLM tooling: prompting, RAG, evaluation, tool use, structured outputs
- Practical stats: experiment design, dealing with confounding, knowing when an A/B test is broken
- Familiarity with our stack is a plus: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, FAISS, sentence-transformers, AWS, Amplitude
- Advanced degree in ML, CS, stats, or a related field is typical. PhD or research background is a strong bonus
Benefits
- Ownership: You'll define the next chapter of ML at Sweatpals, not maintain someone else's models
- AI-native culture: We use Claude Code daily, ship fast, and treat AI tooling as table stakes
- Flexibility: Remote-first, async-friendly, EU timezone
- Compensation: Competitive salary plus early-stage equity
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