Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Place of work
Mlynské nivy 12, Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
From 3 300 EUR/monthOur final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Would you like to lead and shape the way machine learning operations principles are applied within our company? Then we a unique opportunity for you! Keep reading on to found out more information!

About the role
You would be part of the Machine Learning Engineering Solutions team, located in the Group Data Services (GDS) department. The team consists of data scientists, data engineers and ML engineers. We have several years' worth of experience building and hosting machine learning models, predictive analytics and big data solutions in a production environment end to end. Typically, what we build we also maintain. Currently, we are interested particularly in the adoption of standards and methodologies around MLOps, Responsible AI, for example data and model drift monitoring or model explainability. We also develop new or improve existing solutions by secure and efficient LLM integration. Does that sound interesting?

What will you achieve in the first 12 months after joining?

- Lead projects with internal clients, plan tasks, timelines, communicate results and potential risks to stakeholders.
- Mentor junior team members on technical and non-technical matters.
- Implement new analytics solutions by building data ingestion and transformation pipelines, ML model training pipelines and orchestration on platforms like Palantir Foundry, Databricks or Azure ML.
- Become responsible for keeping existing solutions up and running smoothly. End-to-end.
- Help us to stay compliant with our company-wide governance processes and security requirements
- Participate in agile ceremonies such as defining team-internal objectives and key results, or project-specific Scrum events like sprint planning, backlog refinement, review and retrospective sessions.
- Assess new and promising technologies with regards to their business potential and technical maturity, particularly in the area of Responsible AI, MLOps, NLP and Generative AI.
- Communicate your findings to others within Swiss Re, thus contributing to the company-wide adoption of new technologies and knowledge.

Employee perks, benefits

You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits, such as:


- Attractive annual bonus
- Additional days of vacations
- Company stock options
- Space for professional growth incl. e.g. leadership and language trainings
- Flexible working hours - you own the way you work - and home office
- Fully paid lunch allowance
- Sick leave compensation
- Employee pension contribution
- Medical service contribution
- and many more!

Information about the selection process

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.


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Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

Technical skills:
- Strong Python (e.g. scikit-learn, unittest) skills, intermediary Java skills
- Strong Apache Spark skills (e.g. Spark SQL, PySpark and Spark ML)
- Good knowledge of software engineering principles (e.g. IT security, JSON & REST APIs, OOP, entity-relationship-models, etc.)
- Willingness to learn Azure ML and Palantir Foundry
- Experience with Microsoft Azure/AWS/Alibaba cloud or similar cloud providers
- Intermediary applied knowledge of machine learning, statistics and natural language processing

What we expect from you:
- Bachelor, Master's or PhD degree in computer science, data science or equivalent
- 4+ years of professional experience developing software with an analytics focus
- Advanced understanding of the entire data science development lifecycle: idea inception, feature engineering, model training, packaging, deploying and hosting a model
- Understand a complex enterprise software landscape: distributed analytics platforms, MLOps
- Full proficiency in oral and written English

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Lucia Vargova

ID: 4303172  Dátum zverejnenia: 5.11.2023  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 3 300 EUR/month