Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer – Amsterdam – 6 month contract One of the worlds leading travel ecommerce companies requires a freelance Machine Leaning engineer. As a Senior Machine Learning Scientist, you will work closely with engineers and to design, develop, and evaluate machine learning solutions for scalable, customer-facing GenAI applications. Your work will focus on researching, training, fine-tuning, and rigorously evaluating models leveraging LLMs, recommendation systems, and agent-based architectures, using state-of-the-art techniques. You will drive experimentation, define success metrics, and translate insights into impactful AI solutions that shape the future of intelligent travel products. Advanced knowledge and experience in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing, engineering aspects of developing ML and GenerativeAI models at scale. Experience designing and executing end-to-end research and development plans and generating impact through large-scale machine learning model development. Preferably evidenced by peer-reviewed publication, patents, open sourced code or the like. Relevant work or academic experience (MSc + 3 years of working experience, or PhD + 2 years of working experience), involved in the application of Machine Learning to business problems. Experience collaborating cross functionally in the development of machine learning products (e.g. Developers, UX specialists, Product Managers, etc.). Strong working knowledge of Python, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, SQL, and Spark or similar technologies. Working experience with version control systems. Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal. Successfully driving technical, business and people related initiatives that improve productivity, performance and quality while communicating with stakeholders at all levels This contract requires two days a week in the Amsterdam office with the remainer remote. The rate is 125 EUR per hour for 6 months. Move have right to work in the Netherlands.