Machine Learning Engineer

Amsterdam - The Recommendation & Search Area houses all expertise around personalised content recommendations and search within DPG Media. Our mission is to improve the relevance of our digital products to our customers by providing them with the content they want, whenever and wherever they want it. We are a team of Machine Learning Engineers that develop & maintain a collection of APIs that can power all of our News and Video platforms. We are currently serving millions of recommendations per day in video platforms like VTM GO, Streamz and HLN.be as well as in news products like HLN.be and nu.nl. 

What you will be doing:

• Maintain and extend our Recommendation back-end.

• Design, develop, run and evaluate online AB-tests to improve the quality of recommenders.

• Support operational excellence through practices like code review and pair programming.

• The entire team is responsible for the operations of our services. This includes actively monitoring different applications and their infrastructure as well as intervening to solve operational problems whenever they arise.

• Keep up with developments in the wide field of Recommendations and Machine Learning.

Who are you:

• Degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, a related field, or relevant prior experience

• 4+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Affinity with data analysis

• Pre-existing knowledge or experience with machine learning modelling

• Interest in NLP 

• A natural interest in digital media products

Technologies:

• AWS, Kafka, Python (FastAPI), SQL, Docker, Spark

• Nice to have: vector databases, collaborative filtering/recommendation systems

Who are we?

You will work alongside a team of ML Engineers on some of the most innovative ML applications in the region and industry. The company and your team members will actively support you to grow your skills and expertise. Our teams are based in Vilvoorde, Antwerp and Amsterdam. We work in an agile philosophy and are open to flexible working regimes. DPG Media is the local media champion, meaning you will work on some of the most impactful products around. We offer a competitive package in line with your experience and working regime.

With us, you’ll get an inspiring work environment that’s constantly evolving. Colleagues who think in terms of possibilities, see the glass as half full, and we give you the chance to develop yourself every day. We do this, among other things, through our DPG Campus / DPG Academy. This gives you every opportunity to bring out the best in yourself and be a true media maker!

💰 A salary that matches your work experience.
📝 A 36-hour workweek (depending on contract type)
💰 8% holiday pay and 4% personal choice budget
💰 Annual profit sharing based on DPG Media’s performance
🎓 Opportunities for development, both on the job and online through our DPG Academy / DPG Campus
🎉 Opportunity to customize your own cultural holidays!

More reasons to want to work at DPG Media (NL)
At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 strong news brands, magazines, TV shows, radio stations, and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, VTM, and more. We reach over 90% of the Dutch population and 8 out of 10 Flemings every month. We offer you a professional work environment where we highly value freedom. We give you all the space to work on your future by offering workshops and training. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, a learner, and a team player with us, and most importantly, feel free to be yourself. At DPG Media, everyone is welcome. So, apply, regardless of your background. Over 5,500 smart colleagues are eager to welcome you into a team, whether it’s a project team, a pub quiz team, or a sports team.

Discover what we have to offer. And, while you’re at it, you can also find us on LinkedIn and X.

Applying, and then?
Are you ready to get started? Apply now! You’ll receive a response to your application within 10 working days, letting you know whether you’re in the first selection round. If you are, we’ll contact you by phone to schedule an appointment at our office in Amsterdam. Want to know more? Contact Tino (Recruiter) via email: tino.moolenaar@dpgmedia.nl

We like to do our own recruitment and do not wish to collaborate with agencies to fill this role.