Senior Machine Learning Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Join our team of talented individuals and show your technical skills, creativity, and drive for impact. You'll work with the best in the industry in a supportive, happy, and human-centric environment, making seamless technology. We were recognized as Best Workplace® in Europe (medium companies), Best Quality of Life Company® and the 2nd Best Great Place to Work® in Portugal by Great Place to Work®.

🏢 About Imaginary Cloud

At Imaginary Cloud, our work improves and simplifies people's lives by creating easy and intuitive digital products. Our day-to-day tasks include development, problem-solving, management, and human interaction. Together, we will drive innovation by creating innovative projects for some of the best companies around the world. You'll be able to grow as you engage with multidisciplinary teams, multiple industries, and projects, overcoming the many challenges that will test and build your skills.

🎯 The Role

Here's an overview of the technical skills you'll likely have to embark on our team:

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 5+ years of working experience in Machine Learning Engineering or closely related role
• Academic background in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or related quantitive field.
• Hands-on experience delivering production-level, cloud-native machine learning solutions, and a feel for the MLOps practices that make that sustainable.
• Excellent proficiency in Python and related practices (git, code review, linters, unit tests and CI/CD pipelines)
• Solid experience across a modern ML stack: gradient boosting (LightGBM, XGBoost), scikit-learn, PyTorch, MLflow, and current time series tooling
• Strong understanding of feature engineering, ML algorithms, model training and evaluation
• Outstanding proficiency in using Agentic AI tools like Cursor IDE and GitHub Copilot to accelerate code development, refactoring, and complex debugging
• Analytical mind with a strong problem-solving aptitude
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product development teams
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written
• We seek team members who live in Portugal or are willing and legally qualified to live and work there

🎁 Benefits

• Salary according to your experience and performance
• Paid sick days
• Health and dental insurance
• Comfort budget
• A remote-first company
• Flexible working hours
• Global projects with industry-leading clients
• A human-centric culture that values people and empowers them
• Informal environment
• Team events to share knowledge and celebrate collectively
• Mentoring and performance appraisals for solid growth potential

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We seek team members who live in Portugal or are willing and legally qualified to live and work there.