Staff Machine Learning Engineer

This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).

We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 60 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.

At Almedia, you’ll:

• Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.

• Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.

• Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.

• Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

You’ll take ownership of designing, developing, and scaling impactful, production-grade ML solutions that power Almedia’s products and growth.

This is a hands-on role involving active participation in code development and delivery.

Types of problems you’ll be solving:

• Designing and optimising user reward schemes based on player behaviour and market shifts

• Leading the design and implementation of solutions for personalised, real-time reward values

• Developing solutions for identifying underperforming reward campaigns and causes of failure

Your role:

• Lead end-to-end delivery: build, deploy, and optimise solutions and services at scale

• Provide technical leadership across ML projects, ensuring best practices and high-quality code

• Align technical capabilities with business priorities to unlock high-value opportunities

• Apply advanced statistical and causal inference methods to ensure robustness and reliability

• Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business challenges into predictive, data-driven solutions

You have:

• Proven expertise in building, deploying, and maintaining solutions and services in production, ideally in adtech or high-scale environments

• Deep knowledge of statistics (A/B testing, regression, probability)

• Strong programming background in Python and SQL, with hands-on cloud experience

• Ability to mentor and set technical direction for ML engineers and cross-functional peers

• Strong communication skills to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Bonus points for:

• Passion for gaming and strong understanding of player behaviour

• Experience with adtech, monetisation platforms, or the gambling industry

• Familiarity with gaming KPIs such as pLTV, retention, and ROAS

Why Almedia?

• Own Our Growth: We offer all Berlin-based employees equity in Almedia to truly be a part of our success.

• Scale With Almedia: Grow alongside a startup that has been profitable from day one.

• Central Berlin Office: Work from a fully-stocked modern office built for collaboration, accessible from all around Berlin.

• Other Benefits: Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club, and more.

We believe in fostering talent, evaluating all skill levels during the hiring process, and providing a clear path for growth. Almedia is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity, and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.