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Senior ML Engineer (m/f/d)

Altstadt-Nord, Köln💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-26 → 2026-08-10

Core

Design, develop, and operate production-grade machine learning systems to create relevant advertising experiences and measurable value for brands and retailers in a new Retail Media product.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (retail media)

Builds

Production ML systems for sponsored product ranking, audience segmentation, campaign optimization, attribution, and performance measurement

Domain

Retail media, advertising technology

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning system design, software engineering, full ML lifecycle management, feature engineering, model deployment and monitoring, cloud infrastructure, MLOps, handling complex data, mitigating ML failure modes (data leakage, feedback loops, distribution shifts)

Preferred skills

Experience with retail media, recommender systems, or ranking

Technologies

Modern machine learning frameworks, scalable data platforms, cloud infrastructure, APIs, MLOps tooling

Responsibilities

Design and build ML systems for retail media use cases; translate business requirements into scalable ML solutions; develop robust ML pipelines for training and evaluation; bring models into production; ensure system reliability and observability; contribute to ML engineering standards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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