Role Description: As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure, systems, and pipelines that enable the training, optimization, and deployment of cutting-edge Generative AI models at scale. This includes designing scalable infrastructure for training and fine-tuning large language models on Booking.com's extensive data, optimizing model serving and inference pipelines for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency, and ensuring production reliability for systems that serve millions of travelers daily. Your engineering expertise will be critical in bridging the gap between research breakthroughs and production-ready AI systems, while implementing model optimization techniques such as quantization, distillation, pruning, and efficient attention mechanisms.