We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
💻 Senior Machine Learning Engineer 📍London (Hybrid, 40% in office) 💸 £Salary + Benefits
Introducing Machine Learning and AI at Trainline 👋
Machine learning is at the heart of Trainline's mission to help millions of people make sustainable travel choices every day. Our ML models power critical aspects of our platform, including:
Advanced search and recommendations capabilities across our mobile and web applications
Pricing and routing optimisations to find the best fares for customers
Personalised user experiences enhanced by generative AI
Data-driven digital marketing systems
AI agents improving customer support
Our machine learning teams own the complete delivery lifecycle from ideation to production. We work closely with stakeholders across the business to expand the understanding and impact of machine learning and AI throughout Trainline.
We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our team help shape the future of train travel. You will be part of a highly innovative AI and ML platform working alongside engineers, scientists and product managers to tackle complex challenges by combining Trainline’s rich datasets with cutting edge algorithms. What unites our team is an expertise in the field, a love of what we do and the desire to create impactful solutions to support Trainline’s goals of encouraging sustainable travel.
As a part of Trainline you will be joining an environment where learning and development is top priority. You will have the opportunity to work with fellow ML enthusiasts on large-scale production systems, delivering highly impactful products that make a difference to our millions of users.
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Trainline you will... 🚄
Work in cross-functional teams combining data scientists, software, data and machine learning engineers, and product managers
Design and deliver machine learning models at scale that drive measurable impact for our business
Own the full end to end machine learning delivery lifecycle including data exploration, feature engineering, model selection and tuning, offline and online evaluation, deployments and maintenance
Partner with stakeholders to propose innovative data products that leverage Trainline’s extensive datasets and state of the art algorithms
Create the tools, frameworks and libraries that enables the acceleration of our ML products delivery and improve our workflows
Take an active part in our AI and ML community and foster a culture of rigorous learning and experimentation
We'd love to hear from you if you...🔍
Have an advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a similar quantitative discipline
Are proficient with Python, including open-source data libraries (e.g Pandas, Numpy, Scikit learn etc.)
Have experience productionising machine learning models
Are an expert in one of predictive modeling, classification, regression, optimisation or recommendation systems
Have experience with Spark
Have knowledge of DevOps technologies such as Docker and Terraform and ML Ops practices and platforms like ML Flow
Have experience with agile delivery methodologies and CI/CD processes and tools
Have a broad of understanding of data extraction, data manipulation and feature engineering techniques
Are familiar with statistical methodologies.
Have good communication skills
Experience with transport industry and/or geographical information systems (GIS)
Experience with cloud infrastructure
Understanding of NLP algorithms and techniques and/or experience with Large Language Models (fine tuning, RAG, agents)
Experience with graph technology and/or algorithms
Python and associated ML/DS libraries (scikit-learn, NumPy, LightGBM, Pandas, LangChain/LangGraph, TensorFlow, etc...)
PySpark
AWS cloud infrastructure: EMR, ECS, Athena, etc.
MLOps: Terraform, Docker, Airflow, MLFlow
We'd love to hear from you if you...🔍
Have an advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a similar quantitative discipline
Are proficient with Python, including open-source data libraries (e.g Pandas, Numpy, Scikit learn etc.)
Have experience productionising machine learning models
Are an expert in one of predictive modeling, classification, regression, optimisation or recommendation system
Have experience with Spark
Have knowledge of DevOps technologies such as Docker and Terraform and ML Ops practices and platforms like ML Flow
Have experience with agile delivery methodologies and CI/CD processes and tools
Have a broad of understanding of data extraction, data manipulation and feature engineering techniques
Are familiar with statistical methodologies.
Have good communication skills
Experience with transport industry and/or geographical information systems (GIS)
Experience with cloud infrastructure
Understanding of NLP algorithms and techniques
Experience with Large Language Models (fine tuning, RAG, agents)
Python
PySpark for processing big data
AWS: EMR, ECS, Athena, etc.
DevOps: Terraform, Docker, Airflow, MLFlow
Recruiter Call (30 minutes)
Meeting the Head of ML & AI (30 minutes)
Technical Interview with 2 x Engineers (90 mins)
Final Interview (30-45 mins)
Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe every day, in everything we do:
💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact
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