Mapbox
Machine Learning Engineer III, Routing Cost
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Germany only
Employer listed it 10 months ago · Found 4h ago
Been open since 10 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Germany only
Timezone
CET ±2
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Data
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $135k–$210k a year, a typical range taken from 260 senior-level data roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Germany. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Mapbox Germany, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Germany
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
What We Do
The Navigation team at Mapbox develops and operates web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics verticals. We are a highly multidisciplinary organization, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.
Collectively we are revolutionizing in-car experiences with technology to build fast, industry-leading maps and navigation for any vehicle. We’ve launched products such as MapGPT , Mapbox for EV , and we’re enhancing the visual experience of in-vehicle navigation with 3D styling with our new Mapbox Standard through web and mobile SDKs. Mapbox has worked with automotive partners — including BMW, Toyota, and GM — to bring the best aspects of mobile app development into in-vehicle navigation and infotainment.
Mapbox Blog: Introducing 3D Live Navigation
Mapbox Blog: Route Notifications Improve Driver Safety
Mapbox Newsroom: AI Features in New Navigation SDK
As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.
What You’ll Do
As a Machine Learning Engineer III on the Routing Cost team, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of highly trafficked recommendation systems for our routing cost engine. Your technical contributions will include:
Lead the engineering team(s) to execute end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation organization (~80 engineers).
Design and build new ML and data pipelines, as well as optimizing existing ML and data pipelines.
Build tools for automated quality assurance and data exploration.
Leverage geospatial algorithms to optimize pipelines, as well as creating automated tuning and outlier detection algorithms.
Partner with data scientists to make improvements to our models for determining patterns in movement and/or traffic.
Mentor colleagues and participate in code and design reviews.
Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7. Team members alternate as the on-call primary responder, which may require immediate response outside normal working hours, including weekends.
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
8-10+ years of backend and ML experience: Extensive hands-on experience showcasing expertise and a strong track record in the engineering field. Experience with Reinforcement Learning.
Technical knowledge: Extensive experience with Python, distributed processing pipelines (Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, Dask), and very large datasets – statistical analysis, data quality control, optimizing storage.
Cloud proficiency: Extensive experience with cloud and infrastructure services, including, as well as deploying and managing infrastructure in cloud environments.
Operational excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization. Strong passion for clean code and robust architecture, with a drive to elevate engineering practices and design standards across the team.
Ownership & execution: Own the technical vision, lead the strategy and guide the team to execute towards building the future of our routing cost engine.
Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Mapbox, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (CET ±2).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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