Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Overview

Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.

Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI.

Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Speed is something we fight for every day at Fin, and we believe Berlin is built for people who share that instinct. We are drawn to Berlin by its rare blend of deep technical talent and rich creative culture – all within a vibrant, globally connected city that’s close to our R&D hubs in Dublin and London. It’s a place where the best of the best technical talent thrive, and where people from around the world are eager to relocate and build ambitious products.

Our ambition is to hire 100 people in Berlin over the year ahead across engineering, AI, data science, product, and design. We believe this is the most exciting time to join, be the founding R&D talent in the region and make a lasting impact as we build the world's number one customer agent!

What's the opportunity?

Fin's Machine Learning team is responsible for defining new ML features, researching appropriate algorithms and technologies, and rapidly getting first prototypes in our customers’ hands.

We are an extremely product focussed team. We work in partnership with Product and Design functions of teams we support. Our team's dedicated ML product engineers enable us to move to production fast, often shipping to beta in weeks after a successful offline test.

We are very passionate about applying machine learning technology, and have productized everything from classic supervised models, to cutting-edge unsupervised clustering algorithms, to novel applications of transformer neural networks. We test and measure the real customer impact of each model we deploy.

What will I be doing?

Identify areas where ML can create value for our customers

Identify the right ML framing of product problems

Working with teammates and Product and Design stakeholders

Conduct exploratory data analysis and research

Deeply understand the problem area

Research and identify the right algorithms and tools

Being pragmatic, but innovating right to the cutting-edge when needed

Perform offline evaluation to gather evidence an algorithm will work

Work with engineers to bring prototypes to production

Plan, measure & socialize learnings to inform iteration

Partner deeply with the rest of team, and others, to build excellent ML products

What skills might I need?

Broad applied machine learning knowledge

3-5 years applied ML experience

Practical stats knowledge (experiment design, dealing with confounding etc)

Intermediate programming skills

Strong communication skills, both within engineering teams and across disciplines.

Comfort with ambiguity

Typically have advanced education in ML or related field (e.g. MSc)

Scientific thinking skills

Bonus skills & attributes

Track record shipping ML products

PhD or other experience in a research environment

Deep experience in an applicable ML area. E.g. NLP, Deep learning, Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, clustering

Strong stats or math background

Visualization, data skills, SQL, matplotlib, etc.

Benefits

We are a well treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us!

Competitive salary, annual bonus and equity

Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!

Generous paid time off above statutory minimum

Generous family leave (maternity, paternity), to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones

Hybrid working

MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.

Unlimited access to Claude Code and best-in-class AI tools; experimentation & building is encouraged & celebrated

Fun events for employees, friends, and family!

Unleash Your Potential

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