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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Biometrics & Face Recognition) at Scandit

- **Company:** Scandit
- **Location:** Tampere, Finland
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://www.scandit.com/careers/job-description/?gh_jid=8264704

## Job description

Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication, or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows. It provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us as we continue to expand, grow, innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

Banks, fintechs and regulated businesses need more than document scanning. They need to know the person holding the ID is real and is its rightful owner. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in our ID Capture team, you will build the machine learning behind that, centred on face recognition and face matching. You will also support our liveness and presentation attack detection work.

You will have real ownership of the architecture, data and benchmarks, and your models will run fully on device, on the phones our users already have, with no cloud round-trip.

If these challenges sound interesting to you, we'd love to hear from you!

## About the role

You will drive our face-matching work for high-assurance identity verification. You will own models end to end and work closely with our C++ engineers to ship them on device, at scale, on millions of phones and scanners.

## What you will do

- Design, train and evaluate models for face detection, face recognition and 1:1 face matching against ID document portraits
- Support the team's work on liveness and presentation attack detection (PAD) against spoofs, replays and deepfakes
- Define quality metrics, benchmarks and test sets that meet high-assurance and regulatory expectations
- Own the full loop: data collection and labelling strategy, prototyping, training, evaluation, debugging and model integration
- Optimise models for on-device inference with our C++ engineers (quantisation, pruning, mobile runtimes)
- Track research in biometrics and face anti-spoofing, and turn it into product direction
- Mentor engineers on ML practice

Our tech stack

- Python, PyTorch
- ONNX
- C++ on-device SDK
- iOS / Android

## Who you are

We are looking for an experienced ML engineer who has shipped production models to real users and has worked hands-on with biometrics. You are comfortable owning ambiguous problems, moving fast and then iterating. You also work well with product, C++ and QA engineers.

- 5+ years as an ML engineer, with production models shipped to real users
- Hands-on experience with biometrics: face recognition, face verification, liveness or PAD
- Fluent in Python and at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred)
- Strong grasp of evaluation for security-sensitive systems: FAR/FRR, bias and fairness across demographics, adversarial robustness
- Clear communicator who works well across disciplines
- Eligible to work in the hiring location

Nice to have:

- Knowledge of standards such as ISO/IEC 30107 (PAD), NIST FRTE/FATE or iBeta testing
- Experience deploying models on mobile or edge (TFLite, ONNX Runtime, Core ML)
- Working knowledge of C++

## What we offer

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their careers at Scandit:

- A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
- Hackathons
- Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
- People-first culture
- Global team outings, Micro Adventures
- Festive/end of year all company celebrations
- Your birthday off
- An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
- We are certified as a "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries!
- Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London
- Excellent support for remote work across Switzerland, Finland, Poland, UK, Italy and Germany
- Specific benefits related to the location you are joining

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

Imagine the What. Build the How.

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## About Scandit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scandit provides a Smart Data Capture platform powered by vision AI that enables enterprises to capture and analyze barcode, ID, and label data from any smart device, turning physical-world data into real-time business decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland (Global HQ: Hardturmstrasse 18, 8005 Zurich)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Three researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich, and IBM Research (individual names not publicly listed on the company site)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Software / Smart Data Capture / Computer Vision
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises in retail, logistics, healthcare, air travel, and post/parcel sectors
- **Mission or purpose**: "Turn camera input into decision-making" — enabling workers and customers to blend physical and digital worlds with unmatched speed, accuracy, and intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Data Capture SDK & Frameworks**: Software development kits that add barcode, text, or ID scanning to any iOS or Android app in under 5 minutes. Handles 80bn scans annually across low light, damage, distance, and glare conditions. Includes AR guidance and intent detection.
- **Scandit Express (turnkey app)**: Pre-built mobile application for rapid deployment of scanning workflows.
- **Shelf Intelligence & Execution**: AI-powered planogram and price compliance, expiry management & markdowns, and stock detection to boost on-shelf availability to over 95%.
- **Intelligent In-store Picking**: Increases fulfillment capacity by up to 4.6% without additional headcount, optimizing cost per order and service levels using existing labor hours.
- **ID Scanning & Validation**: Fast, accurate, and secure ID scanning and validation processed on-device for maximum privacy. ISO 27001 certified.
- **Scandit Agent Skills**: Brings 15 years of barcode, label, and ID scanning expertise into coding agents for custom integrations and pre-built components.
- **Retail Insights by Vision AI**: Turns visual store data into real-time inventory visibility and prioritized actions, increasing store revenue by up to 2% and cutting waste by up to 40%.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $273M (Series D led by Warburg Pincus).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Warburg Pincus (lead investor). Other investors include GV (Google Ventures), NGP Capital, and others from earlier rounds.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Trusted by over 2,100 customers worldwide.
  - Active on more than 170 million mobile devices.
  - Processes over 50 billion scans per year.
  - Achieved NPS score of +65.
  - Job postings up +66.7% year-over-year (10 active postings as of mid-2025).
  - Offices in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Finland, Poland, Japan, and Italy.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Computer Vision Moat**: Proven at 80bn scans a year with ability to read barcodes in extreme conditions (low light, damage, distance, glare) — a 15-year R&D head start.
- **On-Device Processing**: All ID scanning and validation happens on-device (ISO 27001 certified), ensuring maximum privacy and offline capability.
- **Platform Agnostic**: Works on any smart device (smartphones, handhelds, fixed cameras, drones) — no proprietary hardware lock-in.
- **End-to-End Solution**: From SDKs and turnkey apps to shelf intelligence and retail insights, covering both data capture and actionable analytics.
- **Enterprise-Grade Support**: Includes trials, solution design, integration, and customer success support in the standard offering.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Retail Intelligence**: Moving beyond barcode scanning into AI-driven shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, and waste reduction — targeting grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies, and DIY.
- **Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization**: Deepening capabilities in in-store picking and fulfillment to boost capacity without headcount increases.
- **Global Scale**: Growing office footprint (recent additions in Poland, Italy) and customer base (2,100+ customers) across retail, logistics, healthcare, and air travel.
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Launching "Scandit Agent Skills" to embed scanning expertise into coding agents, lowering integration barriers for new customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes innovation, pioneer spirit, team spirit, dedication, getting things done, and having fun. Described as "human, warm, and collaborative."
- **Work Model**: Flexible — "Work at home, at the office or hybrid."
- **Global Team**: Employees across 5 continents with memorable global gatherings (e.g., 2024 global team outing in Croatia).
- **Recognition**: Certified "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Spain, Finland, Poland, and Italy.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on big brains having freedom to think, innovation hackathons, and collaboration with brilliant minds. Alumni go to top tech companies (Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple).
- **Perks**: "Share in our success" culture, legendary team outings, and a space to stretch yourself.

## Sources
1. [scandit.com](https://www.scandit.com/)
2. [scandit.com/company](https://www.scandit.com/company/)
3. [scandit.com/careers](https://www.scandit.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Scandit](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scandit)

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