Lego is hiring a lead engineer to work on their recommendation engine

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4 points·milesjag··3 comments

LEGO | London (Farringdon) | Hybrid (3 days a week in the office)

* Lead engineer on the personalisation / recommendation engine

* Python, Node JS / TS, Databricks, Aurora RDS, AWS, API Gateway

* Experience required in both data engineering and back-end engineering spaces

* Experience welcome in ML engineering and data science spaces

I've worked on this team for a year or so now and it's fair to say that there's been no shortage of things to work on - you'll be immersed in the challenge of computing and distributing personalised recommendations across the business via operational and analytical workloads.

You will also become a part of a company which adopts a lot of the nice danish working practices (family first).

The office culture is an important aspect of the business so 3 days a week is a needs-must.

If this sounds like your bag - apply :)

Why go this route, rather than incorporating GenAI provided by OpenAI, Alphabet, Athropic, etc.?

It seems to me that we are at a transition point, similar to the transition of self-hosting to cloud-hosting, where bespoke recommendation systems will no longer be a competitive edge. Or am I betting wrong?

As the position is for a lead engineer, it wouldn't be unusual for applicants to have ideas or a view on more recent developments in this technology area and/or it's application to this particular problem space...that's all I'll say

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