Senior Machine Learning Engineer – NLP (m/f/d)

AI Lab
Munich, Germany

Who we are - the Gini Family

Founded in 2011 Gini is a well-established award-winning FinTech company disrupting the banking, accounting, and insurance sector. Our most well-known product is our photo payment software assistant. With this and our other products, we want to enhance everyone’s quality of life - by automating tedious, mindless tasks. What’s special about us: We work in self-organized and cross-functional teams which give everyone at Gini immense autonomy and responsibility. Transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement are fundamental pillars in the way we work together.
Besides other awards in Gini’s early years, we recently received the “Innovationspreis IT” in 2018 and “Top Arbeitgeber 2020” by Focus.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be joining the "AI Lab" and there combine your knowledge of cutting edge deep learning algorithms with your software engineering expertise to build solutions that simplify the life of millions of users and help Gini to build an ecosystem around banks.

Your perks

• Flexible working hours and home office
• An annual training budget of 2.500 € and 5 extra days off for personal and professional development
• A “Steward” who helps you settle in and cares for your personal growth
• Fruit, coffee, tea, cereal, snacks, and different kinds of soda
• New office in Munich’s Westend with two spacious rooftop terraces and a high-quality cafeteria
• A feedback-giving culture full of purpose and community. Check out what employees and candidates say about us on kununu and Glassdoor

Your playing field at Gini

• Your mission is to automate different tasks around document processing by using cutting-edge ML technologies for visual document understanding
• You research, discover, and propose new algorithms to automate tasks in our problem domain based on state-of-the-art approaches and your own ideas
• You implement proposed ideas as prototypes or integrations with existing tools
• You conduct experiments with implemented approaches, analyze experimental results, make comparative studies, statistical analyses, and present results to stakeholders
• You define guidelines for data annotation/labeling and coordinate annotation tasks with the annotation team
• You implement algorithms of production quality with unit tests
• You maintain and extend our training and evaluation infrastructure

Skills to be successful

• You possess excellent theoretical and practical knowledge of machine learning/deep learning, preferably in at least two of these fields: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Visual Document Understanding, Key Information Extraction
• You possess up-to-date knowledge and hands-on experiences with the current deep learning architectures (transformers, YOLO, encoder-decoder) 
• You have an analytical mindset and a structured way of working (breaking down goals and tasks, making decisions based on available information, deriving actions)
• You have hands-on experience in the development of production-ready deep learning models (preferably in Computer Vision and/or Natural Language Processing) in the industrial areas
• You have excellent skills in Python including at least one of the modern deep learning frameworks (preferably PyTorch)
• You are experienced in agile methods (Kanban or Scrum)
• You are fluent in written and spoken English on a professional level, German is a plus
• You are experienced in writing automated tests

How to apply

• Applications are accepted in English and German, preferably as a PDF
• Tell us your WHY: please write a short cover letter that gives us an idea of what ignited your application and HOW you would like to make a difference
• Let us know your earliest starting date and your salary expectation

Sounds like the right challenge for you? Get in touch with us!

Susanna Lüßen
Recruiter & Hiking lover
+49 160 962 891 64
susanna@gini.net