Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Ordermentum Pty Ltd
Would you like to completely transform the hospitality industry?
Would you like to work with the biggest and fastest growing digital data set in the industry?
Would you like to be at the forefront of delivering novel AI solutions that actually create change in an industry that desperately needs it?
If that’s you, come and work for Ordermentum.
At Ordermentum, our purpose is to create a more sustainable food and beverage industry by helping venues and suppliers trade smarter. Since launching in 2014, we’ve grown a massive network of ~45k of your favourite cafes, restaurants and bars (almost half the venues in the country!) ordering $1.5b+ a year from ~ 1000 local wholesale suppliers. In September 2023, we announced a new capital raise and our acquisition of the Foodbomb business to further extend our market-leading position.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their strategic objectives, identify opportunities to be solved by leveraging data assets
- Drive the technical implementation of our AI-powered features, integrating with various LLM models (like GPT-4, Claude, and others) to create innovative solutions
- Work with the Product team to prototype, test and build predictive models and agentic workflows for use in our production systems
- Productionise ML prototypes and make them available within our application
What you’ll have
- You have more than 5 years of Industry experience in the machine learning/software engineering role with a Product/SaaS company.
- Ability to communicate and influence change through technical expertise, knowledge and coaching is a must
- You are proficient in Python and SQL and have experience with common data science libraries such as Pytorch, XGBoost, Transformers, Pandas and Spark.
- Familiarity with the latest techniques for training, evaluating, or deploying LLMs in applied settings or at the foundation model layer. You have good intuitions about when to use techniques like prompting, chaining, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), etc.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
Behavioural Competencies and Personal Attributes
- Open and transparent communication style and ability to communicate a plan to both non-technical and technical team members
- Proactive “get things done” attitude - You love to regularly ship to production and see your work have real impacts.
- Energy and resilience in spades
- Highly results orientated
- Ready for a new challenge and able to hit the ground running
What you’ll get
- An attractive salary and incentive package
- A range of benefits & work practices that encourage & promote flexibility
- Work in a small highly capable team
- A great office centrally located in Surry Hills with a flexible working environment believing in getting things done rather than counting time at a desk
- Plus working in Food & Bev usually means lots of treats!
About our team
Be part of a team that delivers world-class software products to drive brand engagement, customer acquisition, sales growth, cost and cash flow efficiencies and business insights like
never before between food retailers and suppliers.
We commit to learning and enriching our team members. We’re involved in the communities we operate in, speaking at meetups and conferences throughout the year. We work flexibly, believing in getting things done rather than counting time at a desk.
About us
We are a Sydney-based, fully-funded scale-up of 100+ people that have built a sophisticated cloud-based payment and ordering SaaS application. Our world-class platform performs large numbers of transactions powering the food and beverage industry across Australia.
Ordermentum’s vision is to transform how an industry trades through technology. The food and beverage industry in Australia has over 80k venues and with almost half of those venues active on Ordermentum today, our ambition is to be the sole B2B ordering, payments and insights platform in the country within 5 years.
Your work will have a heavy hand in ensuring that Australia remains the most sustainable, diverse and premium food basin in the world.