Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Overview

The Forecasting Company is building the forecasting foundation model to rule them all. We create models, platforms and APIs to generate the most accurate forecasts possible, helping companies make smarter decisions and reduce waste.

Base pay range

This range is provided by The Forecasting Company. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

What you’ll be doing

• Architect and train time-series foundation models using diverse datasets, integrating multimodal inputs like numerical time series, text, location and image data.
• Stay up-to-date on the foundation model literature.
• Design reproducible experiments to verify, compare and combine ideas from the literature.
• Build data exploration tools to understand correlations between data sources, data sparsity, weather patterns, and consumer trends.
• Add data sources to train or test datasets as appropriate.
• Deploy models for use in our API and platform, handling details such as exporting to ONNX or dealing with torch.compile issues.
• Gather and act on user feedback to iterate on model capabilities and maximize customer satisfaction and impact.
• Mentor and guide future team members to help shape a high-performing science and engineering culture as the team grows.

Requirements

• You have extensive ML engineering and science experience.
• You have worked on training large foundation models.
• You are intimately familiar with Python, PyTorch or Jax.
• Strong drive and ambition — you care about having an impact on the product and revenue.
• You go deep, understand all details, and verify assumptions before proceeding.

Nice to have

• You are familiar with at least one low-level language such as CUDA, Rust or C++.
• You have extensive experience with time series data and real-time data streams.
• You have started projects from scratch, led a project or built an impressive side project with real users.
• You have built RAG-ready models.

Why join The Forecasting Company?

• Be part of an elite, diverse and fun team with diverse backgrounds and strong expertise.
• Contribute to making the world more efficient through smarter decision-making and insights.
• Satisfy your curiosity by learning how the world works within household-name companies.
• Build state-of-the-art systems and shape infrastructure for multi-modal forecasting.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Generous equity
• Daily lunch vouchers
• Gym in the office
• Monthly contributions to a mobility pass
• Full health insurance for you and your family
• Tasty caffeine in the office

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

Location: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Posted: 3 days ago