[Hiring] Machine Learning Engineer @YOOBIC

Role Description

Joining our team offers a unique opportunity to experience the inner workings of an AI driven company, contribute to real world retail transformation, and grow as both a machine learning practitioner and a product engineer.

As a Machine Learning Engineer, your mission is twofold:

• Design, build, and integrate AI and machine learning models into our platform and API.
• Strengthen and evolve the data pipelines, application logic, and back-end systems that power our products — ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.

What you'll do:

• Research, test, and implement statistical and ML models using rigorous scientific methods — from data exploration and model evaluation to deployment and monitoring.
• Integrate models into production, owning the entire pipeline: data ingestion, cleaning, feature engineering, training, and serving predictions through APIs and user interfaces.
• Build new end-to-end features for our retailer-facing platform and continuously improve existing ones.
• Develop and refine user interfaces that expose insights and recommendations derived from our models.
• Apply software-engineering best practices: clean, modular, and documented code; version control (GitHub); separation of scripts vs. notebooks; refactoring; and unit testing.
• Monitor, debug, and optimize ML models in production to ensure sustained accuracy and performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data, backend, and product teams to translate business challenges into scalable AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Engineer, Master’s, or PhD student from a top university with specialization in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, or Machine Learning (or equivalent background).
• Strong understanding of statistical modeling, machine learning fundamentals, and their theoretical underpinnings.
• Proficiency in Python and its data/ML ecosystem (NumPy, pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, etc.).
• Solid foundation in software engineering principles and comfort working with APIs and production systems.
• A curious, meticulous, and self-driven mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
• Bonus points for: Participation in Kaggle-type competitions or personal ML projects.
• Interest in tech entrepreneurship and understanding of online/offline retail challenges.
• Experience deploying ML models in real-world environments (e.g., FastAPI, Docker, GCP, AWS).
• Fluent in English.

Company Description

YOOBIC is an AI-powered frontline employee experience platform. Our mobile app gives business leaders and frontline teams the performance tools they need to communicate, learn, and work—all in one place.

• With streamlined communications, mobile learning, and digitized task management, YOOBIC drives operational excellence while drastically improving the frontline employee working experience.
• 350+ companies around the world including Home Bargains, Boots, Morrisons, Mattress Firm and National Vision trust YOOBIC to improve operational consistency and agility, get real-time visibility into multi-location business execution, and improve customer experience.