Machine Learning Engineer

Amsterdam - The Recommendation & Search Area houses all expertise around personalised content recommendations and search within DPG Media. Our mission is to improve the relevance of our digital products to our customers by providing them with the content they want, whenever and wherever they want it. We are a team of Machine Learning Engineers that develop & maintain a collection of APIs that can power all of our News and Video platforms. We are currently serving millions of recommendations per day in video platforms like VTM GO, Streamz and HLN.be as well as in news products like HLN.be and nu.nl.

What you will be doing:

• Maintain and extend our Recommendation back-end.
• Design, develop, run and evaluate online AB-tests to improve the quality of recommenders.
• Support operational excellence through practices like code review and pair programming.
• The entire team is responsible for the operations of our services. This includes actively monitoring different applications and their infrastructure as well as intervening to solve operational problems whenever they arise.
• Keep up with developments in the wide field of Recommendations and Machine Learning.

Who are you:

• Degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, a related field, or relevant prior experience
• 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Affinity with data analysis
• Pre-existing knowledge or experience with machine learning modelling
• Interest in NLP
• A natural interest in digital media products

Technologies:

• AWS, Kafka, Python (FastAPI), SQL, Docker, Spark
• Nice to have: vector databases, collaborative filtering/recommendation systems

Who are we?

You will work alongside a team of ML Engineers on some of the most innovative ML applications in the region and industry. The company and your team members will actively support you to grow your skills and expertise. Our teams are based in Vilvoorde, Antwerp and Amsterdam. We work in an agile philosophy and are open to flexible working regimes. DPG Media is the local media champion, meaning you will work on some of the most impactful products around. We offer a competitive package in line with your experience and working regime.

With us, you’ll get an inspiring work environment that’s constantly evolving. Colleagues who think in terms of possibilities, see the glass as half full, and we give you the chance to develop yourself every day. We do this, among other things, through our DPG Campus / DPG Academy. This gives you every opportunity to bring out the best in yourself and be a true media maker!

• 💰 A salary that matches your work experience.
• 📝 A 36-hour workweek (depending on contract type)
• 💰 8% holiday pay and 4% personal choice budget
• 💰 Annual profit sharing based on DPG Media’s performance
• 🎓 Opportunities for development, both on the job and online through our DPG Academy / DPG Campus
• 🎉 Opportunity to customize your own cultural holidays!