Senior Machine Intelligence Engineer (m/f/d)

Berlin, Germany

WHO WE ARE

Merantix Labs is an external Machine Learning department that provides tailored AI solutions to several industries. We proudly belong to the Merantix family of companies acting as the main partner for customer-centric project solutions. Merantix Labs conceptualizes, builds, and scales machine-learning solutions for clients across all industries. We take advantage of three core competencies: our experience applying machine learning, our expertise fostering enterprise partnerships to assemble vast datasets, and our culture of rapid iterations to build scalable products.

On our path to becoming Europe’s #1 breeding ground for AI products, we seek entrepreneurial minds that have the ambition of implementing revolutionary ML solutions together with us.

Our current projects include developing logistics solutions for retailers, quality assurance tools for manufacturing, medical imaging, AI research projects, text classification, state of the art NLP solutions in the legal and financial domain, and others. 

OUR TEAM is made up of entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers from premier universities around the world. Many of us have PhDs and work experience at top tech companies. We’re based in Europe’s startup capital, Berlin, and are growing quickly! Check out our brand new AI Campus in which we will be working in a couple of months.

Are YOU ready to disrupt several markets with the latest AI technology? Then YOU might be that special one we are looking for!

 

YOUR ROLE

Are you passionate about developing impactful applications of Machine Learning? Do you want to play an instrumental role in building deep learning solutions? The Mission of this role is to bring state-of-the-art deep-learning methods to real-world applications by developing solutions from ideation and prototyping to production. Take the lead of the major projects and support Junior MIEs with their own developments. 

These will be your main responsibilities:

• Interact with clients to scope machine learning projects and their technical feasibility
• Research and prototype state-of-the-art deep-learning models
• Integrate machine-learning models into production-ready software solutions
• Uncover scalable, machine-learning enabled business opportunities
• Work closely with backend and frontend engineers in a wide range of ML projects
• Understand and deliver high-quality code reviews within large codebases
• Guiding, supporting, and leading junior MIE engineers

YOUR PROFILE

The ideal candidate is proficient in software engineering and the latest machine- and deep-learning technologies. YOU will guide junior engineers and independently scope, plan, manage, and drive computer vision and/or natural language processing projects from the ideation to the production phase. In addition, you should also be highly experienced in at least one of the following technologies: reinforcement learning, graph neural networks, causal inference, optimization problems. If your additional skills are not on this list, tell us about it!

YOU are a great fit for our team if this describes you:

• MSc/PhD in computer science, Machine Learning, or related technical field
• Strong programming skills in Python with a variety of (deep) Machine-Learning tasks and experience with libraries like PyTorch
• Experience with one or more of the following cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure.
• Proven experience in independently completing complex technical projects in Computer Vision, NLP, or/and classical ML domain
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like version control, clean code, code review, testing, CI/CD, and automation. 
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and work with backend and frontend engineers in order to build high-quality integrated ML software solutions
• Confidence and ability to interact with clients, to understand their problems, and to design as well as to explain complex technical solutions
• Excellent oral & written communication skills in English. Fluency in German could be very helpful to communicate with our clients/team members.
• Experience giving high-quality code reviews and working with large codebase

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Apache Beam, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Airflow
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

The preferred qualifications are just that: preferred. None of us walked in with all of them. If a few of these points apply to you, we definitely want to talk!

Working at Merantix Labs

In addition to a competitive salary you can expect the following:

• • Engaging topics: Merantix offers unique insights into applied machine learning research and development, working with a group of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs. Joining a dynamic, young company with an interdisciplinary team, you are encouraged to pursue your curiosity for a variety of topics and to approach challenges in creative and innovative ways. 
  • Dynamic working culture:  Merantix offers a dynamic and flexible work environment. We are a fully trust-based organization and believe in the ownership of work, personal responsibility, and the motivation of our people.
  • Excellence:  We are driven researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs who believe in what they create and are committed to the success of their ventures. In order to build disruptive products, we strive for outstanding quality and visionary ideas in high-performance environments.
  • Ethics: We are committed to developing ethical AI software. We take this responsibility seriously and are committed to providing our employees, customers, and partners with the tools they need to develop and use AI safely, accurately, and ethically.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.  We consider all applications equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply, and we can help with immigration”