Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

Using billions of data points, Booking.com’s Tel Aviv machine learning center combines data science and product development to create smart, personalised and frictionless experiences for our customers. With an international team, our experts work together everyday to solve problems and create new solutions that impact the millions of customers we serve all across the globe.

As a Machine Learning Engineer you are a technical subject-matter expert, who generates significant business impact and crafts the direction of product initiatives, by being driven and having full ownership of your projects - from ideation, via collecting data, annotating, feature engineering, productionizing and training model pipelines, deploying experiments, measuring and iterating on them.

In the Tel Aviv site, as a Machine Learning Engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Booking’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. You will work in a multi-functional team in charge of improving the customer experience using machine learning in all our product development areas of flights, transportation, accommodation, attractions and more!

Do you want to join us, crunch some of the largest travel datasets around, and have a direct impact on millions of users worldwide? Keep reading.

B.Responsibilities

• Develop production-grade machine learning code, from models to features and pipelines, allowing for scalability, realtime, monitoring and retraining.
• Build readable and reusable code, choosing the right technologies and coding methodologies applying knowledge of business area tools and product needs.
• Monitor product health, performance and business impact and act accordingly when requirements are not met.
• Solve issues by applying methods and insights gained from a variety of disciplines, navigating a variety of environments.
• Make things happen by maintaining motivation and conveying a sense of urgency, focusing on outcomes and accomplishments.
• Continuously evolve your craft, keeping up to date with the latest technologies.
• Actively contribute to Machine Learning at Booking.com through training, exploration of new technologies, interviewing and onboarding colleagues.
• Collaborate with central teams to improve, scale and extend machine learning tooling and infrastructure.

B.Skilled

• Strong knowledge in one of the following domain Recommender Systems, Deep Learning, Information Retrieval, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Causal Inference, scaling ML models, etc
• 4+ years of relevant work experience (or equivalent), involved with the application of Machine Learning to business problems, preferably in a commercial environment.
• BsC or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields.
• Knowledge of multiple machine learning facets, such as working with large data sets, experimentation, scalability and optimization.
• Strong working experience in one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, Python or Perl.
• Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc.
• Knowledge of version control systems.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

B.Offered

We are a performance-based company that offers career advancement and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential. We also offer what we call the “Booking Deal” with unique perks and benefits. The Technology Department has regular hackathons, “innovation days”, training, and attends and speaks at global conferences.

This position is open to local candidates only.