In this position, you will support the digital transformation of Eurofins Food & Feed Testing Europe by managing AI initiatives in machine learning. Your role focuses on driving new business opportunities and enhancing commercial and operational standards across the Food Testing sector in Europe. Responsibilities include developing core algorithms that power laboratory functions—from search and recommendation systems to image recognition and product identification. You will also guide junior ML engineers, collaborating with infrastructure teams to deploy models on both cloud and on-premises systems.
As part of your initial focus, you will work on projects such as developing AI tools to optimise commercial functions, implementing visual bacteria recognition in production settings, and assessing sanitary risks based on historical data. You’ll bring your expertise to cross-departmental teams, driving AI solutions that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve product quality while providing mentorship to peers.
Candidates should bring at least six years of experience in machine learning, demonstrating a background in implementing organisational change and building relationships across various stakeholder groups. Experience deploying machine learning models at an enterprise level, with a track record in areas such as recommendation systems, image recognition, or natural language processing, is essential.
Educational qualifications include a Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Statistics, or an equivalent level of professional experience. Proficiency in languages like Java, C/C++, or Python is required.
Analytical and problem-solving skills are fundamental, as well as strong abilities in strategic thinking, communication, and collaboration. Familiarity with deep learning, reinforcement learning, or probabilistic graphical models is beneficial. These skills will support your work in delivering impactful business results across the organisation.
We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.
We embrace diversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins Network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
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Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
