Staff Data Scientist (Remote Europe) — AI & CV Architect

Printful; Málaga; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

2 extra paid days off (mental/physical

1 extra paid day off for birthday/cele

Internal and external learning

Mentorship and hackathons

Lunch stipend for Riga office

Employee merch discounts

Team-building events

Job summary

Printful is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead the technical direction of our core AI capabilities across Search, Ranking & Recommendations and Generative AI & Visual ML. You will guide production ML systems and mentor engineers across Europe.

You'll own architectural decisions, drive end-to-end pipelines, and collaborate with data science and ML engineering to scale impact from pilot to enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling production ML systems.
• Proven track record in staff-level technical leadership across ML domains.
• Experience delivering large-scale AI systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale search, ranking and recommendation systems across Europe.
• Define architecture for candidate retrieval, multi-objective ranking and LTR models.
• Advance personalization with sequence embeddings from merchant history and trends.
• Integrate data feedback from downstream to improve training and ranking pipelines.
• Oversee image generation pipelines using multimodal models and diffusion architectures.
• Mentor senior ICs and steer design reviews to ship measurable business impact.
• Own end-to-end feature development from model selection to frontend APIs.

Skills

Two-Tower ranking

Vector search

Recommender systems

Python

PyTorch

LangChain

LLMs orchestration

MLOps

Tools

Qdrant

Pinecone

FAISS

Snowflake

Flyte

CometML

Amplitude

Job description

Printful is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to lead the technical direction of our core AI capabilities across Search, Ranking & Recommendations and Generative AI & Visual ML. You will guide production ML systems and mentor engineers across Europe.

You'll own architectural decisions, drive end-to-end pipelines, and collaborate with data science and ML engineering to scale impact from pilot to enterprise-grade infrastructure.