Recommendation Machine Learning Engineer – REMOTE

Makro PRO is an exciting new digital venture by the iconic Makro. Our proud purpose is to build a technology platform that will help make business possible for restaurant owners, hotels, and independent retailers, and open the door for sellers. Makro PRO brings together the best talent across multi-nationals to transform the B2B marketplace ecosystem. We welcome bold, energetic, and thoughtful people who share our belief in collaboration, diversity, excellence, and putting customers at the heart of our work

Take your career to new heights in the future of B2B e-commerce. Join our team and help us build Southeast Asia’s next unicorn.

We are currently seeking a talented and experienced Machine Learning Engineer with expertise in the search domain, preferably with a focus on Thai language retail search niches. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual who can develop and implement cutting-edge data science solutions to improve our search engine and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Read, understand, and replicate research papers to help train custom models and enhance our search capabilities.
• Apply knowledge in Siamese networks, XGBoost, Learning to Rank, Two Towers, reranking, relevancy tuning, collaborative filtering, and building embeddings.
• Develop expertise in Thai language NLP tasks, such as vector creation, closest word match, handling tokenization, and fuzziness in non-space languages, using neural networks.
• Work with backend servers and REST APIs to integrate data science solutions into our platform.
• Analyze data and focus on hands-on, results-oriented approaches rather than theoretical modeling.
• Productionize models and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth implementation and optimal performance.
• Fine tune LLMs and understand MLOPs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Data Scientist, preferably in the search domain and Thai language retail search niches.
• Strong understanding of Siamese networks, XGBoost, Learning to Rank, Two Towers, reranking, relevancy tuning, collaborative filtering, and building embeddings.
• Familiarity with NLP techniques and challenges specific to the Thai language.
• Experience with backend servers and REST APIs.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on hands-on, results-oriented approaches.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

Benefits

Health Insurance – At Maknet, we care about your health! Group insurance from a top insurance company is included in your benefits—OPD, IPD, Emergency OPD

Provident Fund – Maknet cares about your long-term plan! We offer 3% provident fund.

Year-end bonus – We include variable and performance bonus for our employees.

Gym Facilities – Our Head office has a fitness center, yoga room, and recreational space. Enjoy Bangkok scenery and work your body!

Attractive Vacations days – Enjoy our attractive annual leave. Let’s say the minimum is 18 days!

Flexible working hours – We know people have different productive cycles. Choose your way of work whether you are a night owl or an early riser.

No overtime – We work 5 days a week with. We set our own goals and deadlines.

Cool hardware – New MacBook. The tool to help you be the best of yourself.

Free car parking space – No more stress or extra cost if you drive to work. We offer free parking space for our employees.

Best Culture

• Clear focus.
• Diverse Workplace (Our members are from around the world!)
• Thai and Non-Thai are both welcome!
• Non-hierarchical and agile environment.
• Growth opportunity and career path.