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Machine Learning Engineer (For independent contractors)

Booking.com
Netherlands · Contract · Mid-Senior
The Machine Learning Engineer is 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 to collecting data, annotating, feature engineering, productionizing and training model pipelines, deploying experiments, measuring and iterating on them.

Key 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.
  • Identify underlying issues and opportunities across related domains and situations through application of structured thinking and logic.
  • 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.
  • Clearly communicates with stakeholders at all levels when appropriate.
  • Continuously evolve their craft, keeping up to date with the latest technologies.
  • Actively contribute to Machine Learning at Booking.com through training, exploration of new technologies, interviewing, onboarding and mentoring colleagues.
  • Collaborate with central teams to improve, scale and extend machine learning tooling and infrastructure.
  • Responsible for technical implementation and maintenance of data processing services and storage systems in line with the Data Governance Framework.

Requirements Of Special Knowledge/skills

  • Strong knowledge in areas like e.g. 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.
  • Experience with data-driven product development: analytics, A/B testing, etc.
  • Strong working experience in one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, Python or Perl.
  • Knowledge of version control systems.
  • Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Key Skills

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Netherlands

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Posted
Feb 18, 2026
Type
Contract
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Amsterdam
Company
Booking.com

Industries

Software Development

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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