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Applied Scientist
📅 Sep 25
Machine LearningDeep LearningLarge Language ModelsGenerative AI
📜 Description
- Research how LLMs retrieve and reason over structured and geospatial data, including tool, API, text-to-query, and grounding approaches.
- Develop AI-ready representations of location data, such as geospatial embeddings, knowledge graphs, and structured context formats.
- Build benchmarks, evaluation datasets, and metrics for factuality and hallucinations in location-grounded systems.
- Design, train, and fine-tune machine learning models using large-scale multimodal data.
- Frame product opportunities as scientific problems with clear success metrics, then take solutions from prototype to production with engineering teams.
- Track advances in LLMs, retrieval, and agentic systems; communicate findings and share scientific knowledge.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong foundations in machine learning, deep learning, statistics and optimization.
- Hands-on experience with modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX, and with the Python scientific stack (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn).
- Experience with one or more of: LLMs and generative AI, computer vision, time-series forecasting, graph neural networks, or reinforcement learning.
- Proven ability to design experiments, define meaningful metrics and draw sound conclusions from data.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed computing (e.g., Spark, Databricks, or cloud ML platforms on Azure, AWS or GCP).
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and to work with engineers toward production deployment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical ideas to diverse audiences.
- A track record of publications at top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, KDD) is a plus.
- Experience with geospatial, mapping, mobility or sensor data is a plus, but not required.
✨ Benefits
- A competitive compensation package, of course.
- Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local
- Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
- Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends
- Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
- Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities
- Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.
Full job description
TomTom is a global leader in navigation, mapping, and traffic information. Join our dynamic team and vibrant culture to contribute to shaping the future of location technology.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist to shape how AI understands and uses TomTom's location data. You'll develop machine learning models and design the systems that let LLMs reason accurately over maps, traffic, points of interest and routing. You'll turn open-ended product questions into well-defined scientific problems, validate solutions with rigorous evaluation, and work with AI and software engineers to bring them to production.
What we offer
A competitive compensation package, of course.
Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.
Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.
Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!
Find out more about our global benefits and enjoy additional local benefits tailored to your location.
Meet your team
We're the Navigation SDK team. We work on complex code to develop TomTom's Navigation Software Development Kit, integrating technologies provided by other Product Units and enabling our customers to easily build competitive navigation applications. Your code will also be at the heart of TomTom's navigation products like AmiGO, helping millions of people find their way in the world.
At TomTom...
You’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.
Work with a team of 3,300+ unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.
After you apply
Our recruitment team will work hard to give you a meaningful experience throughout your journey with us, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews all the way through onboarding. To find out more about our application process, check out our hiring FAQs.
TomTom is an equal opportunity employer
TomTom is where you can find your place in the world. Every day we welcome, nurture and celebrate differences. Why? Because your uniqueness is what makes you, you. No matter your culture or background, you’ll find your impact at TomTom. Research also shows that sometimes women and underrepresented communities can be hesitant to apply for positions unless they believe they meet 100% of the criteria. If you can relate to this, please know that we’d love to hear from you.
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