Staff ML Engineer, Product Recommendations (m/f/d)
Redcare Pharmacy5 hours ago
Munich, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the Recommendations product and define its architecture, technical direction, and long-term evolution.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate machine learning systems for candidate generation, ranking, personalization, product discovery, and recommendation optimization.
- Develop ML pipelines for feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous model improvement.
- Translate ambiguous product and business requirements into scalable, reliable, observable, and maintainable ML solutions.
- Lead technical design and architectural decisions while balancing model quality, latency, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Identify technical risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities across the recommendation stack.
- Communicate technical decisions, assumptions, limitations, and uncertainty to product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Raise ML engineering standards through design reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, ML-focused Software Engineer, or Data Scientist with strong engineering experience.
- Experience building and operating production-grade machine learning systems, pipelines, or model-based products.
- Strong experience with recommender systems, ranking, personalization, or related product discovery systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership influencing architecture, engineering practices, and technical direction beyond individual contributions.
- Understanding of complex data and ML failure modes including data leakage, feedback loops, distribution shifts, and misleading offline metrics.
- Ability to make pragmatic system-level trade-offs across model quality, latency, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong communication, ownership, collaboration, mentoring, and cross-team technical initiative skills.
Benefits
- Membership package at Urban Sports Club.
- Anonymous and free professional mental-health support from Likeminded.
- Individually arranged work location, including up to 20 days per year working anywhere in the EU when office presence is not required.
- Fully costed Deutschland Ticket.
- Support for individual development through internal and external training.
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About Redcare Pharmacy
Redcare Pharmacy is a publicly listed online pharmacy and healthcare e-commerce company serving consumers across seven European countries. It sells prescription and OTC medicines, health and personal-care products, and operates a marketplace and retail-media platform for brands. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Sevenum, Netherlands, it runs major distribution centers in Sevenum, Milan, and Pilsen and traces its roots to Shop Apotheke Europe.