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Senior ML Engineer (Technical Lead)

Zerolook


Job Location:

Zürich - Switzerland

Yearly Salary: EUR 140000 - 150000
Posted: 24 August 2026 (9 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 21 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Looking for a role where you can use your ML skills to redefine how an entire industry solves core problems We have that!
Zerolook is changing how air travel is priced and ML is at the core of our approach. As an early hire you get to define the technical approach at the center of it all.

Tasks
  • Model Architecture: Design and implement high-performance low-latency ML models for fare and itinerary estimation.
  • Data Engineering: Build and maintain robust data pipelines to process massive volumes of historical fare and schedule data.
  • Intelligent Routing: Develop confidence scoring systems to intelligently route traffic between ML models and current legacy stacks.
  • Domain leadership: develop core domain expertise in the field of using ML for fare and itinerary prediction.
  • Technical Leadership: hire lead and mentor other engineers as the team grows.
  • Strategic Collaboration: Partner alongside the founders with key organizations in the industry in developing the core Zerolook offering.
Requirements
  • Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related field.
  • Broad ML Knowledge: familiarity with the breadth of ML approaches and their relative strengths and weaknesses.
  • Production ML Expertise: 4 years in designing training and deploying ML models in production environments.
  • Engineering Foundation: Strong software engineering skills with experience building robust automated data pipelines.
  • Startup DNA: Comfortable with the 0 to 1 phase-ambiguity fast iteration and taking extreme ownership.

Bonus Requirements

  • Travel Tech: Previous experience with OTAs metasearch or GDS/NDC integration is a significant plus.
  • Large scale applications: experience building applications serving over 10K QPS at latencies on the order of 1 sec.
  • Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science and/or educational concentration in Data Science
Benefits

Compensation

CHF 140.000-150.000 significant stock options

If you are ready to build the infrastructure that will power the next generation of travel search we want to hear from you.


About Company

zerolook is a flight shopping service built for AI-scale search, designed for a fraction of the cost per query. It is built for OTAs and airlines serving AI-scale traffic.

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