Zalando is hiring a Senior Senior ML Engineer — fashion recommendations on the Personalization team (Hybrid · Berlin, Germany). This is a hands-on role in LLM & generative AI—not a generic “AI enthusiast” post.
You will own LLM features, retrieval, agents, and evaluation end to end: problem framing, offline evaluation, safe rollout, and iteration from production signals. Success is measured with clear metrics (quality, latency, cost, or business KPIs)—not slide decks alone.
Zalando is Europe's leading fashion platform with strong ML for search and recommendations.
Ship ranking and personalization models for millions of customers from Berlin.
What you will do
- Ship production recommendation and search ML with offline evals, monitoring, and safe rollout.
- Work with product and domain experts on requirements and trade-offs.
- Improve data pipelines, labeling, and metrics tied to business KPIs.
- Document runbooks for on-call and customer-facing teams.
What we look for
- Strong Python and modern ML/LLM stack with shipped features.
- SQL, experimentation, and clear communication to stakeholders.
- Eligible to work in the listed country; professional English required.