Interested in becoming a founding member of a young research team?
Biila is a fast-growing technology company specialising in vehicle logistics. We have revolutionised the auto transportation industry in Finland by offering car deliveries through a platform, and are currently expanding abroad.
Our platform is used by hundreds of car dealerships, service shops and rental companies to request car relocations all around Finland. The relocations are carried out by a fleet of thousands of drivers, who use the platform to find gigs whenever they feel like earning money, want to get from A to B, or just enjoy driving.
Moving cars around the country is logistically a massive task. For example, given a set of drives from A to B, and a set of available drivers in specific locations, how do we assign the best matching driver for each drive? Since the drivers want to get back home after a drive, they have to rely on public transportation to move between gigs. This is just one example of many that we encounter in our business.
Biila has recently started a research team called Biila Labs, which is responsible for solving these problems using machine learning and advanced optimization methods.
Biila is a pretty chill company with flexible hours and relaxed working culture. We love what we do, but don’t take things too seriously. As a small company, we like to solve problems together regardless of positions or cool job titles.
We are looking for new nerds to join our research team. You have the rare opportunity to become one of the founding members of the team, which means that you can definitely get your voice heard and you can certainly see your products in the real world. We want to build the team and solve problems together as teammates and friends, rather than building hierarchies. This also means that you will be given a lot of responsibility as soon as you feel like you are ready to handle it, but everything will be done together. Growing along with our young team gives you a huge opportunity to become a foundational part of Biila, and a highly-valued expert.
We are looking for individuals, who love solving complex puzzles, pondering different approaches together in front of a whiteboard, and do not shy away from sometimes quite theoretical research.
Your responsibilities
Your primary focus will be on working with the team in designing, building, and improving machine learning systems
Using machine learning techniques, statistical methods and analytics to extract insights and knowledge from data
Data analysis and interpretation more generally, either for assisting other teams in decision making, but also to support the projects of the team
Collecting and managing internal data in a data lake
We expect you to have
Genuine interest in data analytics and machine learning
Ability to work both independently and together as a team
Strong programming skills, specifically Python and Pandas
Deep understanding of statistics, especially statistical biases and other caveats
Completed or nearly completed Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in CSE or similar
Experience of using machine learning libraries and frameworks such as scikit-learn, or XGBoost
Excellent mathematical ability in general
We count it as benefit, if you have
Knowledge and experience on managing data in a data lake, for example using AWS Lake Formation
Knowledge and experience on location data and geographic information systems (GIS)
Knowledge and experience with tools and services, such as Anaconda, AWS SageMaker, Apache Kafka, or MLflow
