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Junior Machine Learning Engineer

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Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 11/7/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/6/2025

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Job Summary:

Ahold Delhaize USA is part of a global food retailer and is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join their Data Science team. This role involves developing and deploying machine learning algorithms, enhancing personalization and recommender systems, and analyzing large-scale data to improve model performance and customer engagement.


Responsibilities:

• Develop transportable and customizable modules for our core algorithms, allowing them to be plugged into any of our apps. Support rapid prototyping and deployment of algorithms

• Build model serving applications for serving using REST microservices. Identify constraints, strengths, and weaknesses of technology options for model serving

• Understand fine-tuning/benchmarking of LLM’s, GenAI frameworks, language processing. Prototype and develop applications for LLM’s and GenAI use cases.

• Extracts, transforms, and selects relevant features from raw data to improve model performance. Ensures data quality and collaborates with cross-functional teams to build scalable, reusable feature pipelines.

• Develop experimentation strategies based on requirements to support Data Science initiatives using A/B testing methodologies

• Works closely within a team environment to incorporate collaborative business plans utilizing both internal and external data partners. Keep up with latest trends in industry on machine learning space.

• Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our values.


Qualifications:


Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.

• 2 years of applied Machine Learning experience with experience in deploying, scaling, and continually improving algorithms

• Expert in distributed computing with Spark, DevOps best practices, and containerization

• Expert coding ability in Python and high competency with PySpark

• Knowledge of API development best practices

• Knowledge of model management

• Knowledge of code versioning and agile methodologies


Preferred:

• Experience deploying models on very large data using: Databricks, Kafka and/or Kubernetes

• Understanding of, and experience productionizing, the following ML concepts: Collaborative filtering, Ranking algorithms, Advanced regression, classification, and clustering, Deep learning at scale for NLP

• Experience with advanced search concepts using deep learning is a plus!

• Experience working on cloud infrastructure (Azure Preferred)

• Experience training and serving models on GPU(s)

• Knowledge on Web Development eg. Latency benchmarking, REST, GRPC, GraphQL etc.

• Experience working on Seldo


Company:

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, US, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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