Applied ML Engineer

Jobgether SRL; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Location: Romania

Open-weight models exposure

Production-grade tooling

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Applied ML Engineer based in the Netherlands to bridge ML research and production. You will evaluate methods, design experiments, and build robust verification tooling across model weights, APIs, and inference infra while collaborating across backend, frontend, and product teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with PyTorch, open-weight models, and scalable evaluation infrastructure, with a strong focus on reproducibility, instrumentation, and clear reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineering skills with hands-on experience using PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers.
• Solid understanding of ML evaluation including dataset design, baselines, metrics, calibration, and reproducibility.
• Ability to read ML research papers and implement methods from first principles.
• Professional software engineering experience beyond notebooks including APIs, asynchronous jobs, databases, logging, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Familiarity with open-weight models and practical understanding of LLM inference systems.
• Ability to work across backend and frontend boundaries with sufficient React/TypeScript knowledge to help make experiments and results understandable to users.
• Ownership and initiative, with ability to drive projects independently.
• Experience with evaluation and inference infrastructure such as DSPy, LiteLLM, Temporal, Ray, vLLM, PostgreSQL/pgvector, or comparable technologies.
• Experience running and serving open-weight models on GPUs, focusing on latency, throughput, memory, precision, and cost.
• Experience designing adversarial evaluations or testing systems against evasion attempts.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce and evaluate ML research methods using open-weight models and APIs.
• Design evaluation datasets, probes, scoring approaches, baselines, calibration tests, and experiment harnesses.
• Work with model weights, logits, hidden states, and inference infrastructure as needed.
• Build and extend evaluation infrastructure including runners, judges, persistence, orchestration, reporting, and reproducibility.
• Translate research workflows into product experiences with experiment config, execution, traces, comparisons, reports, and review flows.
• Investigate verification methods under fine-tuning, merging, quantization, distillation, safety removal, or evasion.
• Create controlled experiments distinguishing signal from artifacts and confounding factors.
• Produce clear technical reports separating evidence from interpretation.
• Deliver production-quality systems with APIs, asynchronous jobs, databases, observability, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Collaborate across research, experimentation, engineering, and product as priorities evolve.
• Within six months, reproduce and document at least one model-provenance or verification method and its capabilities and limitations.
• Build a repeatable model-verification runner with versioned inputs, artifacts, metrics, and reports accessible via the product interface.
• Run controlled experiments across base, fine-tuned, merged, quantized, and distilled models to improve understanding of verification methods.

Skills

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

API Development

Asynchronous Jobs

Databases

Logging

Testing

Documentation

React/TypeScript

Next.js

Temporal

Ray

vLLM

pgvector

PostgreSQL

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

React/TypeScript

Next.js

Temporal

Ray

vLLM

pgvector

PostgreSQL

DSPy

LiteLLM

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Applied ML Engineer based in Netherlands.

As an Applied ML Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of machine learning research, experimentation, and production engineering.

You’ll turn ideas from research papers into rigorous experiments, measurable evidence, and reliable products.

The role spans model evaluation, model internals, inference infrastructure, backend systems, and user-facing product experiences.

You’ll work hands-on with modern ML models, designing evaluations that reveal what methods can—and cannot—demonstrate.

You’ll also build production-grade tooling that makes complex experiments repeatable, observable, and accessible to users.

The environment values technical judgment, ownership, scientific rigor, and the ability to move comfortably across the technology stack.

It’s an opportunity to help transform emerging ML techniques into practical systems that people can trust.

Accountabilities

• Reproduce and evaluate machine learning research methods using open-weight and API-accessible models.
• Design evaluation datasets, probes, scoring approaches, baselines, calibration tests, and experiment harnesses.
• Work directly with model weights, logits, hidden states, activations, model APIs, and inference infrastructure when required.
• Build and extend evaluation infrastructure covering experiment runners, judges, persistence, orchestration, reporting, and reproducibility.
• Turn research workflows into intuitive product experiences, including experiment configuration, execution, traces, comparisons, reports, and review workflows.
• Investigate how verification methods behave when models are modified through fine-tuning, merging, quantization, distillation, safety removal, or deliberate evasion.
• Design controlled experiments that distinguish meaningful signals from artifacts, confounders, and misleading correlations.
• Produce clear technical reports that separate measured evidence from interpretation and hypotheses.
• Deliver production-quality systems with APIs, asynchronous jobs, databases, observability, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Contribute across research, experimentation, engineering, and product as priorities evolve.
• During the first six months, reproduce and document at least one published model-provenance or verification method, including its capabilities, assumptions, and limitations.
• Build a repeatable model-verification runner with versioned inputs, artifacts, metrics, and reports, and make at least one verification workflow accessible through the product interface.
• Run controlled experiments across base, fine-tuned, merged, quantized, and known distilled models, improving understanding of when verification methods succeed, fail, and why.

Requirements

• Strong Python engineering skills, with hands-on experience using PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers.
• Solid understanding of machine learning evaluation, including dataset design, baselines, metrics, calibration, false positives and negatives, statistical uncertainty, and reproducibility.
• Ability to read ML research papers critically and implement methods from first principles rather than relying entirely on existing packages.
• Professional software engineering experience beyond notebooks, including APIs, asynchronous jobs, databases, logging, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Familiarity with open-weight models and a practical understanding of how modern LLM inference systems operate.
• Ability to work across backend and frontend boundaries, with sufficient React/TypeScript knowledge to help make complex experiments and results understandable to users.
• Strong experimental and analytical judgment, particularly around distinguishing what evidence demonstrates from what it merely suggests.
• High ownership and initiative, with the ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and drive projects forward independently.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment where priorities can change quickly and engineers may operate across multiple functions.
• Experience with model provenance, fingerprinting, watermarking, distillation detection, red-teaming, safety evaluation, interpretability, or related areas is a plus.
• Experience with activation and representation analysis, probing, model hooks, logits, hidden states, or other model-internals techniques is advantageous.
• Familiarity with evaluation and inference infrastructure such as DSPy, LiteLLM, Temporal, Ray, vLLM, PostgreSQL/pgvector, or comparable technologies is beneficial.
• Experience with Next.js, React, TypeScript, data visualization, or experiment dashboards is a plus.
• Experience running and serving open-weight models on GPUs, including reasoning about latency, throughput, memory, precision, and cost trade-offs, is valuable.
• Experience designing adversarial evaluations or testing systems against deliberate attempts to evade detection is an advantage.
• A strong commitment to producing production-quality code, tests, tooling, and documentation that other engineers can confidently operate and extend.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on applied machine learning at the intersection of research, experimentation, engineering, and product.
• End-to-end ownership across model evaluation, model internals, infrastructure, backend systems, and user-facing experiences.
• Exposure to modern open-weight models, LLM inference systems, and emerging ML verification techniques.
• A role with significant technical autonomy and the opportunity to shape both experiments and production systems.
• Fast-moving startup environment with evolving priorities and cross-functional collaboration.
• Opportunity to translate cutting-edge research into practical, measurable, and user-accessible products.
• The opportunity to build systems and evaluation methodologies designed to produce evidence that users can understand and trust.
• Location: Romania.
• Additional compensation, flexibility, healthcare, and other benefits may be provided according to the partner company's employment package and local arrangements.

How Jobgether Works

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