Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Select which cookies you accept Strictly necessary Product · TBAuctions | Amsterdam · Hybrid Lead Machine Learning Engineer We usually respond within a week At TBAuctions, we are building the intelligent auction platform behind our brands, with machine learning and AI at its core: powering recommendations, search and personalization, valuation, supply-demand matching and streamlining processes with AI agents across millions of auctions. We are looking for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to head up our ML & AI team and the platform behind it, in a role that is equal parts hands-on and leadership. The ideal candidate has led and delivered large-scale ML/AI projects to production with real business impact, shaped technical direction, and built strong teams. What you will do Build and architect - Own the architecture of our ML & AI systems end to end: data pipelines, feature and model stores, training and serving infrastructure, built as reusable capabilities our auction brands can share. - Design the architecture and orchestration of our AI agents platform, with strong evaluation, monitoring and guardrails for reliable behaviour in production. - Strengthen and contribute to our existing MLOps setup: automated training, validation, deployment and monitoring, experiment tracking and CI/CD. - Design and build our recommendation, search and ranking systems end to end: candidate generation and retrieval, ranking models, embeddings and vector search, and real-time personalization at scale. - Deploy models as robust APIs and scalable microservices, containerized and orchestrated with Kubernetes. - Design systems, write and review code in a modern stack, and raise the bar on engineering best practices. Lead and set direction - Identify and prioritize the highest-impact opportunities across our auction brands and landscape, set and own the ML & AI roadmap. - Frame business problems as ML tasks, define most impactful busines...