Senior ML Engineer & Tech Lead — Travel Pricing (Stock Options)

Zerolook; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Zerolook in Zürich is seeking an ML-focused engineer to shape pricing and routing for air travel. You will help define the technical approach at the heart of our platform as an early hire.

You will design production ML models, build robust data pipelines, and lead a growing team while collaborating with the founders and industry partners to deliver Zerolook's core offering. This role blends research with production ownership, requiring strong software engineering and a willingness to own

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field.
• Broad ML knowledge across approaches and trade-offs.
• 4+ years designing, training and deploying ML models in production.
• Strong software engineering with robust data pipelines.
• Comfort with fast iteration and ownership in a startup.

Responsibilities

• Model Architecture: Design and implement high-performance, low-latency ML models for fare and itinerary estimation.
• Data Engineering: Build and maintain data pipelines to process historical fare and schedule data.
• Intelligent Routing: Develop confidence scoring systems to route traffic between ML models and legacy stacks.
• Domain leadership: develop core domain expertise in ML for fare and itinerary prediction.
• Technical Leadership: hire, lead and mentor other engineers as the team grows.
• Strategic Collaboration: Partner alongside the founders with key organizations in developing the core Zerolook offering.

Skills

Broad ML Knowledge

Production ML Expertise

Engineering Foundation

Startup DNA

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Zerolook in Zürich is seeking an ML-focused engineer to shape pricing and routing for air travel. You will help define the technical approach at the heart of our platform as an early hire.

You will design production ML models, build robust data pipelines, and lead a growing team while collaborating with the founders and industry partners to deliver Zerolook's core offering. This role blends research with production ownership, requiring strong software engineering and a willingness to own