Machine Learning Specialist (m/f/d)

Tens of thousands of cruise holiday enthusiasts rely on our services already. Now we want to take the next step and offer our innovative services to our B2B partners. That’s where you enter the scene: you love playing with data, know how to pull out insights and use them to recommend choices that level-up customer’s conversion.

Our vision is to become the world’s smartest B2B cruise advisor. Headquartered in the heart of Hannover (Germany), our investor-backed travel tech startup consistently relies on the use of artificial intelligence and big data. We constantly analyse huge data volumes, get the essence out of it and add smartness. Our cooperation with the local university TNT / Leibniz University assures that we are always up to date with the latest machine learning technologies.

Your Role on Board

  • Work hand in hand with a cross-functional team of product management, software engineers and scientists from University of Hannover
  • Design, prototype and refine algorithms & data and ML-driven features
  • Translating business requirements to bot specific journeys / workflows
  • Be responsible and take ownership of our conversational service solutions using voicebot and related integrations
  • Developing and implementing ML models and features, as well as using third party APIs and pre-trained models when appropriate
  • Contributing to the full life cycle of ML/data models: data analysis, data preprocessing and pipeline, modelling, tuning and deployment
  • Improving the scalability, speed and performance of existing models
  • Designing and creating new data workflows and deploying these workflows to users
  • Sharing and articulating statistical analysis, modelling, experiment and results to technical and non-technical audiences
  • In a scalable manner, integrate the ML and AI technologies which have a high impact into our process
  • Staying up to date on the latest research, best practices and evangelizing their adoption within the company

Your Profile on Board

  • MSc or PhD in a quantitative field such as Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science or 4 years of experience in the field
  • Strong foundation in software engineering best practices which enable building world class products, including architecture design principles, coding standards, testing and continuous integration / deployment
  • Highly proficient in a scripting or computing language (e.g. Python, TensorFlow, Scala, C++ or similar)
  • Experience in NLP, NLTK, Spicy and other libraries is a plus
  • Experience in creating chatbot / virtual assistant applications is a plus
  • Think outside the box to develop innovative solutions for complex problems
  • Team player who is responsible, organized, and goal-oriented
  • Knowledge of implementing end to end projects
  • Proven track record developing services with AI - / ETL - / Big Data - technologies, machine learning
  • Use of modern Cloud Infrastructure (GCP/AWS) to solve problems efficiently
  • Good knowledge in modern recommendation concepts

  • Fluent communication in English is a must

What We Offer

  • Lots of freedom and opportunities to develop yourself and our product
  • Close cooperation with scientist from the TNT / Leibniz University of Hannover
  • An attractive compensation model, including virtual company shares and 30 vacation days
  • A job with nice and international colleagues as well as direct contact with the founders
  • A co-working office in Hanover or the option to work remotely with flexible working hours
  • We want you as you are, just be yourself - no dress code or other annoying disruptions
  • A cool startup feeling and environment with a relaxed atmosphere


Please send us a current CV and portfolio to markus [at] cruisewatch.com

B&S Media GmbH, Walderseestraße 7, 30163 Hannover

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