Machine Learning Engineer

Job description

The NPS (News Personalisation Squad) mission is to improve the relevance of our digital products for our customers by providing them with personalised experiences. Through our various channels (websites, apps, newsletters and push notifications) we aim to keep the user up to date with both the important news and the news they in particular are interested in. We are a team of Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Scientists that develop & maintain a collection of APIs that power all of our News brands.

Our solution currently serves millions of recommendations per day in news products like hln.be, nu.nl and volkskrant.nl.

Our team is passionate about helping the users with our personalised recommendations and considers ethics as a primary concern. Working in the field of News Recommendation, we are very conscious of the impact we have on users’ news diet and the content they are exposed to.

What you will be doing:

• Maintain and extend our Recommendation back-end.
• Maintain and set up data pipelines to guarantee data is ready for (near) real-time recommendation
• Support operational excellence through practices like code review and pair programming.
• Actively monitor different applications and their infrastructure as well as intervening to solve operational problems whenever they arise. The entire team is responsible for the operations of our services.

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
• Experience with data engineering
• Enjoys working on a variety of technologies and products
• Pre-existing knowledge or experience with machine learning modelling
• A natural interest in news

Technologies

• Our tech Stack: AWS, Kafka, Python, Docker, Spark, Kubeflow, FastAPI, MLFlow, Valkey, Qdrant
• Must Have: Python, Docker
• Good to have: AWS, Kafka, Spark

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 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.

• 💰 A salary that matches your work experience.
• 💰 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!
• 🏢 Working hybrid from our Amsterdam or Antwerp office