Senior Applied Scientist

About us:

Fresco's goal is to simplify cooking so everyone can enjoy more mealtimes at home. We believe that when more people cook, they and the people around them are happier, healthier, and live more sustainably.   
That is why Fresco is bringing appliances, recipes, and multiple brands together into one platform, KitchenOS, to create the most seamless and effortless experience for home cooks. 

Fresco is already working with some of the biggest appliance brands including Panasonic, Viking, Kenwood, and Instant Pot Brands to deliver Fresco-connected cooking to their customers and are always adding more brands and appliances.

Fresco has offices in Dublin and Madrid with many more Frescolleagues dotted across the world, spreading the love of home cooking through technology wherever we go. 

At Fresco, we understand that people are what makes food great. People are also what makes our company great. If you want to join our team, apply now and serve up your best work at Fresco.

As Senior Applied Scientist at Fresco, you will:

• Propose and develop machine learning models to solve key problems in the area of Connected Cooking and Recipe Generation, Adaptation and Understanding.
• Work as a member of Fresco's Core AI Team, developing products for Fresco’s partners and customers.
• Ensure data quality throughout data products including data quality measurement and sourcing and creating ground truth datasets

• You have deep knowledge in standard machine learning / deep learning libraries and frameworks such as Tensorflow/TFX, Keras, PyTorch, or Hugging Face
• You have experience with Large Language Models and Transformer-based model architectures, particularly open source LLM model families such as Llama and BERT.
• You apply best practices and robust methodologies for model design, training, evaluation and tuning.
• You have the ability to communicate to stakeholders and collaborate effectively within a cross-functional team, and have excellent written and presentation skills.
• You can balance bias to action and speed of delivery with quality of work and attention to detail.
• You can see the big picture and apply a holistic problem solving approach to your work.
• You have experience with CI/CD, Git, AWS services such as Sagemaker, S3, EC2
• A love of food and interest in IoT is an advantage.

• You have 3+ years delivering real-world consumer facing machine learning products and services.
• You have a solid foundation in statistics and machine learning / deep learning for one or more of Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Machine Translation. A PhD or MSc in this area could be helpful, but equivalent industry experience is also considered.
• Experience in multilingual NLP is a plus.

Fresco is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Fresco will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact careers@frescocooks.com

What’s it like working at Fresco?

We get a lot done by prioritising well and being effective instead of busy. We care deeply about our customers and the product experiences we provide. We treat each other with respect, speak our minds, and always listen to each other—regardless of function or seniority. We are authentic, humble, and most importantly, trust each other to do a great job. 

Like with any good meal, a career at Fresco is both rich and rewarding, with many opportunities and room for growth. If you’re ready to serve up your best work at Fresco, get in touch! 

What you’ll get.

• The chance to work at a hyper-growth, venture-backed startup in a budding industry
• The ability to feel true purpose in your work and generate success on a global platform
• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful share options as part of our Employee Share Option Scheme
• A stipend each year to level up your skills–courses, conferences, books, screencasts, or whatever challenges you
• A flexible, hybrid work model to suit your needs
• The opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 1 month per year

Just like the ingredients in our kitchen, we believe that diversity of ideas is what makes the workplace great. Fresco is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates from a range of national, ethnic, or cultural groups. This job description works as a guide for the caliber of person we need, but we also understand that skills are transferable. If you are an exceptional candidate with mismatching experience, please apply and explain why you would be a great fit for Fresco.