About the role
Veliu is hiring a Founding Data and ML Engineer to own most of its data pipelines and data science/ML projects. This is an applied, production-focused role rather than a research position: the workflows you build will directly affect users and partners across Veliu's AI-powered platform for pre-owned goods. The company raised a 4m USD pre-seed round in July 2025 and operates from an office in Milan, Italy.
You will design, build, and maintain scalable pipelines for structured and unstructured data, and collaborate with engineering on storage solutions such as data lakes and warehouses. On the ML side, you will develop, train, and deploy models for pricing, risk management, and catalog management, validate performance, and apply techniques such as NLP or computer vision. The stack includes Python, SQL, Spark, Pandas, Polars, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and.
Highlights
- Founding role owning data pipelines and applied ML projects end to end
- Focus areas include pricing, risk management, and catalog management
- Production-first mandate, not a research-focused position
- Based in Veliu's Milan office, following a 4m USD pre-seed round in July 2025
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