Senior ML Engineer / Data Scientist

Company Description Are you passionate about building production-grade AI systems that continuously learn and improve from real-world feedback? We are looking for a Senior ML Engineer / Data Scientist to help develop intelligent recognition and entity-matching solutions for a large-scale media data platform. In this fully remote role across Europe, you will work with Large Language Models, evaluation frameworks, and cloud-based ML pipelines to improve automation quality and reduce manual processing efforts. You will collaborate closely with Data Engineering teams and Customer stakeholders while owning the ML lifecycle end-to-end. We at Sigma Software create impactful technology solutions for global customers and provide engineers with opportunities to work on meaningful, high-scale products using modern AI technologies. This role offers significant ownership, challenging engineering tasks, and the ability to influence production AI systems at scale. CUSTOMER Our Customer operates a large-scale platform focused on processing and structuring advertising and media operational data. The company is actively investing in intelligent automation and machine learning solutions to improve recognition accuracy across multiple station and network layouts while minimizing manual intervention in data processing workflows. PROJECT The project focuses on building a self-learning Postlog and Prelog recognition system capable of automatically understanding new layouts, extracting structured data, and improving from production feedback. The solution leverages Large Language Models and modern ML practices to optimize recognition quality, entity matching, and confidence-based automation. You will contribute to the development of scalable AI-driven workflows designed to achieve high automation accuracy, observability, and operational efficiency in production environments. Job Description Design and develop a self-learning Postlog and Prelog recognition system using modern ML and LLM techniques Build and maintain versioned prompts, evaluation datasets, and few-shot exemplars Apply production-grade LLM practices including schema-constrained extraction, grounding strategies, and low-confidence fallback handling Improve recognition quality and optimize layout and header mapping performance Analyze production failures and enhance prompts, retrieval pipelines, and model behavior Run evaluation pipelines and shadow-mode comparisons against legacy systems and gold datasets Monitor confidence scores, latency, operational quality, and infrastructure costs Develop entity-matching systems for Station, Advertiser, and CreativeID master data Implement confidence scoring, thresholding, and auditability mechanisms Transform human and machine corrections into labeled signals for continuous model improvement Monitor prompt and model drift in production environments Collaborate with Data Engineering teams on ML integration and operationalization Communicate technical findings and recommendations to engineering teams and Customer stakeholders Qualifications At least 5 years of experience in Machine Learning, Data Science, or ML Engineering Proven experience delivering ML models or LLM-powered systems into production Strong hands-on experience with Large Language Models in real products or pipelines Deep understanding of prompt engineering, prompt versioning, evaluation methodologies, and grounding strategies Experience handling low-confidence scenarios and optimizing cost and latency for LLM systems Strong Python and SQL skills Solid knowledge of statistics, confidence estimation, sampling, hypothesis testing, and threshold optimization Experience with classification, ranking, matching, or recommendation-related problems Understanding of offline evaluation metrics, holdout validation, and production monitoring Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and orchestration services Strong communication and collaboration skills Upper-Intermediate English level or higher WILL BE A PLUS LLM-related certifications Experience with Amazon Bedrock or equivalent enterprise LLM platforms Production experience with Claude/Sonnet-class models Experience with Excel or layout extraction systems Knowledge of confidence calibration, active learning, or weak supervision techniques Experience with cost-aware LLM operations including caching, routing, and fallback models Advertising or media domain knowledge Familiarity with Glue, Airflow, or similar orchestration and data pipeline tools Additional Information PERSONAL PROFILE Strong ownership mindset Analytical and data-driven thinking Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments Continuous improvement approach Attention to quality and operational excellence Effective collaboration and communication skills