Grupo | Sr Machine Learning Engineer

About QuintoAndar Group

We are Grupo QuintoAndar, the largest real estate ecosystem in Latin America. Guided by a shared purpose of helping people love the place they live, we have a diverse portfolio of brands and solutions across different countries in Latin America, as well as a Tech Hub in Portugal. We develop technology and innovation to transform and boost the housing experience.

With the support of a world-class team of investors and advisors, including Kaszek, Qualcomm, General Atlantic, and SoftBank, the QuintoAndar Group is currently valued at over US$5.1 billion and continues to grow year after year.

Here, you will work with the best professionals in the market, in an environment that breathes innovation, collaboration, and high performance. To learn more about our history, visit

Lisbon Tech Hub

In 2022, QuintoAndar proudly opened its first European tech hub in Lisbon, marking a significant milestone in our global expansion.

Our Lisbon tech hub is home to a team of experienced engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists. You'll collaborate closely with teams primarily based in Brazil, contributing to our innovative projects on a global scale.

Location & Remote Work for technology and remote-first roles

Our technology team operates under a "remote-first" model, which means we work from home and can live anywhere in Brazil. We also offer the option of working from our São Paulo offices or partner coworking spaces, up to twice a week.

Language

This job description is written in English because it will be necessary for communication with coworkers and suppliers from around the world, as well as for tools and internal materials.

Stages of the hiring Process

The stages of our hiring process aim to assess your experiences and provide you with an opportunity to meet our teams and career opportunities, and are structured in the following steps:

• Application
• Interview with Recruiter
• Tech Screening
• Interviews with Data Team
• Offer

About the role:

At QuintoAndar we use Machine Learning (ML) to build delightful experiences and solve complex problems. We are at a maturity level where scaling those ML systems is also a challenge. We need Machine Learning Engineers to bring great models to production as effective ML-based products and features, and also evolve this ecosystem.

You can learn more about our ML pipeline and platform here and here. Or play a bit with Butterfree here and discover how features are transformed to our Feature Store.

• Combine Software Engineering and Data Science disciplines to create production-ready Machine Learning models;
• Integrate other engineering services and systems with our ML services;
• Develop frameworks and platform to build, deploy, serve and monitor ML-based services;
• Collaborate with Software Engineers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists along the way of the modeling pipeline:
• • Features preparation
• Model training
• API development
• Service deployment
• Predictions and features monitoring
• Model retraining
• Assure health and quality of ML services;
• Foster best practices for infrastructure and coding regarding machine learning specific requirements;
• Contribute to vision and architecture to scale ML solutions at QuintoAndar's business;
• Participate of problem contextualization, solution scope, product discovery, design and implementation of ML-based products and/or ML Platform;
• Manage technical debt regarding a strategic trade-off between delivering value in the short term and expanding ML capabilities in the long term;
• Bridge professionals and technical dependencies between non-ML services and ML services.

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Strong software engineering and python skills;
• Solid background in Machine Learning;
• Proven experience in productionizing ML models, with deep expertise in deploying and maintaining ML services;
• Good cloud-based infrastructure skills;
• Experience with MLOps tools and libraries (Ex: MLflow, Kubeflow, AWS SageMaker, Google AI Platform, etc);
• Experience developing RESTful APIs;
• Experience with tough technical challenges;
• Humility, curiosity and avid interest in learning;
• Ability to deal with changes in a fast-paced environment;
• Good communication and teamwork skills;
• Orientation to business value.

You'll stand out if you have:

• MSc. or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or other relevant technical fields;
• Experience with Deep Learning models;
• Experience with LLMs, AI Agents and chatbots;
• Experience working on ML Platform team;
• Experience with Spark;
• Experience in fast-growing start-ups or in high-tech companies
• It will be a plus if you have some Java experience (or other 'low-level' or compiled language)

Important:

• Our hiring process starts with the application If you genuinely want to be part of our team, please complete this step of the process. We analyze all candidates individually and provide feedback to all applicants.
• All communication will be conducted via email, so please stay tuned for our messages and release the domain to ensure our emails are not sent to spam.

Benefits

• Meal allowance
• Health insurance (Multicare), with/ co-pay (in Portugal)
• Work from home allowance
• Transportation
• 25 vacation days per year
• Labor accident insurance
• Life insurance
• Child care allowance (children up to 5 years old): 100,00 EUR/month
• Parental leave
• 10 consecutive extra days of paid recess at the end of the year, not discounted from vacation

Diversity & Inclusion at QuintoAndar Group

We value diversity and want everyone to feel welcome here, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristic. All our job openings are open to all individuals You'll notice there are some diversity questions in the application form. For affirmative action roles, this information may be used to verify your alignment with the target audience for the opportunity. In such cases, it may be used for elimination purposes. For non-affirmative action roles, this data will be used anonymously, exclusively to monitor and improve our inclusion practices in the hiring process. They will have no impact on your application.

Privacy and Data Protection

The Grupo QuintoAndar operates in compliance with privacy and data protection laws, ensuring the security of your data. To learn more, please access our Privacy Notice for Candidates. For questions or to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact us through our Service Channel.