Junior Machine Learning Engineer Operations

You’re finished work for the day, you’ve pushed your code, and it’s been reviewed and merged, you need to pick up some groceries on the way home. You bike to your local Albert Heijn and you think to yourself with a smile that the forecasting model that you and your team just deployed is already running behind the scenes to make sure that your favorite products are fresh and available! 

As you walk through the refrigerated aisles you pick up a bargain - some salad leaves that have been dynamically marked down to 70% off to make sure they sell before they expire and are wasted – again by a data science model running behind the scenes. 

You walk past the bakery department and think about the optimization that is running to help the bakers bake the right number of croissants tomorrow morning.  

Stepping out onto the street you think to yourself that it’s not just your local store – these models are running in more than a thousand stores across the Netherlands and Belgium. Furthermore, it’s not just the stores, the models your team builds are running in the supply chain and for online orders – ensuring efficient packing and delivery!

Does a job with such tangible impact at such scale motivate you? Do you want to use your skills to solve a wide set of practical and challenging problems? We're looking for talented curious young people to come and strengthen our Operations Analytics and Data Science team!

As a Junior Machine Learning Engineer at AH Technology, you will:

• Work on different aspects of our in-house machine learning solutions including software engineering, data engineering and automation
• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, data scientists and engineers to deploy and continually improve machine learning models
• Support the team in following software engineering and MLOps best practices, for example by reviewing code and automating deployment and model management tasks
• Continually improve your coding and machine learning skills with the guidance of senior members and through participation in training

Who you are:

• You have an MSc in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related discipline
• You enjoy writing pythonic, clear, extendable, testable code, and can apply Software Engineering best practices
• You can build a data pipeline using SQL, Spark, Pandas, or other relevant tools for transformation of relational data
• You are familiar with the concepts of version control and continuous integration and delivery
• You know the fundamentals of Machine Learning and Statistics

**Knowledge of the following topics would be a plus:**

• Containerization
• Cloud platforms
• REST APIs

For more information about AH Technology, you can also visit: https://blog.ah.technology/

What we offer:

• An inspiring head office in Zaandam
• A competitive salary up to € 60K - gross a year. (excl. holiday allowance)
• A bonus on top of your salary
• 25.5 vacation days
• An ADV budget choice in which you can decide whether you spend it on extra days (+19.5 days), discounts or pay-outs
• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• An excellent pension plan with a personal contribution of 6.2%
• Courses from our Albert Heijn Data Academy
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
• A travel allowance or a Traject OV-chip card for traveling to and from Zaandam
• A MacBook M1/M2 Pro and iPhone 14
• 10% discount on your grocery shopping in our Albert Heijn stores, up to € 300 per year

Data Talent Track

Learning and personal growth are core values of our department. Our Data Talent Track is a one and a half year program available to our young analysts, data scientists and engineers. It consists of soft and hard skills training that helps you develop your professional skills. Courses on communication, on personal leadership and on writing better code. You’ll also get a chance to help out in the store for a day or help build the ideas of the future in a Hackathon.

Apply

Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Apply via the button on this page. We ask you not to send a standard motivation letter, but to formulate an answer to the following questions:

• Why do you think you will be successful in this position and what kind of technical skills do you bring with you for this role?
• What is one of your personal strengths and one skill you wish to improve or develop?

Want to know more before you apply for our role at AH Technology? Peter Dirks, Talent Acquisition Partner Data Science & Analytics, is happy to tell you everything about this vacancy via peter.dirks@ah.nl