Machine Learning Engineer

Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, is transforming into an industrial digital giant that enables global trade with its land, sea and port assets. We are the digital and software development organization that builds products in the areas of predictive science, optimization and IoT. This position offers the opportunity to build your engineering career in a data and analytics intensive environment, delivering work that has direct and significant impact on the success of our company. Global data analytics delivers internal apps to grow revenue and optimize costs across Maersk's business units. We practice agile development in teams empowered to deliver products end-to-end, for which data and analytics are crucial assets. This is an extremely exciting time to join a fast paced, growing and dynamic team that solves some of the toughest problems in the industry and builds the future of trade & logistics. We are an open-minded, friendly and supportive group who strive for excellence together A.P. Moller - Maersk maintains a strong focus on career development, and strong team members regularly have broad possibilities to expand their skill set and impact in an environment characterized by change and continuous progress.

The team - who are we:

We are an ambitious team with the shared passion to use data, machine learning (ML) and engineering excellence to make a difference for our customers.

We are a team, not a collection of individuals. We value our diverse backgrounds, our different personalities and strengths & weaknesses. We value trust and passionate debates. We challenge each other and hold each other accountable. We uphold a caring feedback culture to help each other grow, professionally and personally.

We are now seeking a new team member who is excited about using experiments at scale and ML-driven personalisation to create a seamless experience for our users, helping them find the products and content they didn’t even know they were looking for, and drive engagement and business value.

Our new member - who are you

• You are driven by curiosity and are passionate about partnering with a diverse range of business and tech colleagues to deeply understand their customers, uncover new opportunities, advise and support them in design, execution and analysis of experiments, or to develop ML solutions for ML-driven personalisation (e.g., supervised or unsupervised) that drive substantial customer and business impact.
• You will use your expertise in experiment design, data science, causal inference and machine learning to stimulate data-driven innovation. This is an incredibly exciting role with high impact.
• You are, like us, a team player who cares about your team members, about growing professionally and personally, about helping your teammates grow, and about having fun together.
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field
• 3–5 years of professional experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, both in on-premises and cloud (Azure preferred) environments.
• Strong expertise in working with large datasets from Salesforce, port operations, cargo tracking, and enterprise systems etc.
• Proficient writing scalable and high-quality SQL queries, Python coding and object-oriented programming, with a solid grasp of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in software engineering best practices, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and writing unit/integration tests.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes) for data workflows and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, Hadoop).
• Experience in data modelling, and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow
• Ability to support ML engineers and data scientists by building production-grade data pipelines
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with product managers, domain experts, and stakeholders to translate business needs into robust data infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, global, and cross-functional environment.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience deploying data solutions in enterprise-grade environments, especially in the shipping, logistics, or supply chain domain.
• Familiarity with Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, or similar cloud-native data tools.
• Knowledge of MLOps practices, including model versioning, monitoring, and data drift detection.
• Experience building or maintaining RESTful APIs for internal ML/data services using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks.
• Working knowledge of ML concepts, such as supervised learning, model evaluation, and retraining workflows.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance practices.
• Passion for clean code, automation, and continuously improving data engineering systems to support machine learning and analytics at scale.
  
  

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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