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Senior Machine Learning Engineer (ACE)

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onsite senior full-time Petaling Jaya

First indexed 25 Oct 2026

Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services including food delivery, financial management, and transportation.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the development of intelligent systems that shape how millions of users interact with Grab.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

  • Strategic Demand Shaping: Architect solutions that steer demand toward higher serviceability.
  • Grab Content Enrichment: Transform 'thin' or unstructured data into rich, machine-readable metadata.
  • Demand Generation & Growth: Identify 'hidden' customer patterns across food and dining to unlock new demand for ACE.
  • Reliability & Dispute Arbitration: Predict friction before it happens.
  • Transformative GAI Experience: Lead the integration of Generative AI (GAI) to fundamentally evolve the current user journey and interface.

Your key responsibilities are:

  • Extract Insights: Analyze massive datasets to decode food ordering patterns and optimize the end-to-end journey for food ordering journey.
  • Build, Iterate, and Deploy: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of ML models.
  • Cross-Function Collaboration: Partner with product managers, engineers, analytics, design and operations teams to scale solutions.
  • Innovation: Contribute to team's innovation and IP creation.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Education: Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or Operations Research.
  • Technical Depth: Deep understanding of ML/DL foundations, optimization algorithms, and data mining.
  • Programming: Strong proficiency in Python or Scala.
  • Problem Solving: Translate complex business problems into scalable math/code solutions.
  • Soft Skills: Motivated to learn and articulate technical insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Life at Grab:

  • Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • GrabFlex benefits package.
  • Parental and Birthday leave.
  • Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
  • Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
  • FlexWork arrangements.
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