Amsterdam
26 May 2026
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Machine Learning Scientist (For independent contractors)

Booking.com

Machine Learning Scientist (For independent contractors)

Booking.com seeks a Senior Machine Learning Scientist for the GenAI Applications team in Amsterdam. The role involves designing and deploying ML-powered solutions for travel products, with focus on LLMs, recommendation systems, and agent-based architectures. Requires MSc+3 years or PhD+2 years experience, strong skills in computer vision, NLP, and Python.

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

On-site

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Contract

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)
Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer VisionLLMsRecommender SystemsPythonJavaKafkaHadoopSpark
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationleading by examplestakeholder managementfeedback
Tools (Must-have)
SQLversion control systems

Key Responsibilities

  • Explore and apply state-of-the-art techniques in multimodal machine learning.
  • Train innovative ML models (NLP, CV, LLM-finetuning), build algorithms, and engineering approaches to drive business impact.
  • Ensure implementation of reusable frameworks (clean and scalable code).
  • Conduct data analysis with detailed metrics to evaluate model performance, label quality, feature exploration.
  • Work closely with ML engineers to ensure model latency/throughput meets product requirements and deploy models to production.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to translate business requirements into ML solutions.
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