Senior AI Engineer

<b><span>Our mission</span></b><span>? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.</span><br/><b><span>Our journey:</span></b><span> Founded by </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprot/"><span>Alexandre</span></a><span> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveanavi/"><span>Steve</span></a><span> in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-companies-2023-les-25-entreprises-o%C3%B9-acc%C3%A9l%C3%A9rer-1c"><span>LinkedIn Top Companies</span></a><span> French ranking!</span><br/><b><span>Our values:</span></b><b><span>Customer focus |</span></b><span> Prioritize customers in everything you do</span><b><span>Ownership |</span></b><span> Own your part, get things done</span><b><span>Teamwork |</span></b><span> Make (team)work easy</span><b><span>Mastery |</span></b><span> Continuously raise the bar</span><b><span>Integrity |</span></b><span> Always do what’s right, and respect people</span><br/><b><span>Our beliefs:</span></b><span> At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.</span><br/><a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/a-recruiters-dilemma-confronting-bias-in-hiring-b78acce148eb"><span>Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process</span></a><span>.</span><br/>Join us as a Senior AI Engineer to build and deploy impactful machine learning models that directly enhance Qonto's <b>user experience.</b> You'll be working on critical features for our 500,000+ customers, thus you <b>must have developed client-facing products.</b><br/>You will work closely with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mborzic/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marianne Ducournau</a> and join a team of 6 AI Engineers and 1 Data Engineer, creating innovative solutions that are at the core of Qonto's financial services.<br/><b>👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Senior AI Engineer at Qonto, you will:</b><br/>• <b>Develop new models end-to-end</b>, from understanding product requirements to implementation and deployment:- <b>Align with various stakeholders,</b> including Product Managers, Data Engineers, and Backend Engineers to ensure seamless integration of ML solutions into the product ecosystem<b>- Develop models</b>: design, train, evaluate, and iterate on ML models using modern techniques tailored to real business problems<b>- Put models into production</b> with robust technical implementation and quality assurance processes• <b>Scale our solutions:</b>- <b>Create an ML Ops framework</b> for the team to ensure our models scale effectively with proper monitoring and alerts (e.g., model drift detection, performance tracking, automated retraining pipelines)- <b>Share best practices</b> within the ML team, contributing to internal knowledge, tooling improvements, and mentoring peers<br/><b>🤔 What you can expect:</b><br/><b>• Market/Team Context</b>: Your work will have <b>visible and direct impact</b> on Qonto's users and experience.<b>• Methodologies and tools: </b>We use a <b>modern tech stack i</b>ncluding Python, Cursor, Snowflake, Kafka, Kibana, PostgreSQL, Airflow, AWS tools, Prometheus, ArgoCD, and GitHub. You'll have the <b>freedom to test any tool</b> as long as it helps reach the target.<b>• Growth opportunities</b>: There's a clear <b>individual contributor track</b> for those who want to become <b>experts</b> in their field.<br/><b>🤝 Your Future Manager</b><br/>Your Future Manager will be <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mborzic/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marianne</a>, Head of Data Products.<br/><b>Her background?</b>After her experience in famous tech organizations where she managed Data Science teams in the Finance department, Marianne joined Qonto 3 years ago to build our Data Science team!<br/><b>What does she bring to the team?</b>As an expert in her field, she has hands-on experience in implementing Data Science models to serve cross-functional teams and deliver actionable insights. Marianne also has a true passion for mentoring and coaching the team.<br/><b>🏅About You:</b><br/>• <b>Experience</b>: You have 3+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering coupled with ML Ops, <b>particularly in developing</b> <b>client-facing products. </b>You're familiar with tools that automate model retraining and performance checking.• <b>Modeling expertise:</b> You have experience building and optimizing ma