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Veliu

AI-powered trade-in platform for circular economy

Founding Data and ML Engineer

Full-Time
€45k - €75k/yr
Mid
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
In Person
AI & Machine LearningApplied Machine Learning

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience with programming languages and tools such as Python, SQL, Spark, Pandas, and Polars.
  • Proficiency in data science and machine learning techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, and time series forecasting.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML libraries and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and spaCy.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to collect, clean, and transform large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to develop efficient data storage solutions, such as data lakes and warehouses, and ensure smooth data flow for AI, data science, and analytics use cases.
  • Develop, train, and deploy AI/ML models for prediction, recommendation, and optimization tasks, with a focus on pricing, risk management, and catalog management.
  • Continuously experiment and validate model performance, ensuring robustness and scalability in real-world applications.
  • Work on applied AI techniques such as natural language processing or computer vision to enhance company products and services.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, cloud computing, and ETL.
  • Experience with data visualization tools such as Plotly and Seaborn.
  • Proficiency with version control such as Git.

About the company

VELIU provides an AI-powered fintech platform that helps consumers monetize pre-owned goods by offering trade-in options through partners like retailers, e-commerce platforms, and telecoms. The platform gives instant valuations for millions of products and connects shoppers to a network of professional buyers, while handling logistics via about 2,000 collection points and using renewable-energy servers. It differentiates itself by delivering turnkey B2B2C integrations that enable trade-in without price cuts, supported by rapid AI valuations and a broad, sustainable value chain across collection, refurbishment, and recycling. Its goal is to scale circular economy activities by making asset monetization easy, reducing waste, and promoting sustainable consumption through widespread adoption of trade-in and re-commerce in Europe.

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Headquarters

Milan, Italy

Founded

2024

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What believers are saying

  • July 2025 funding from Emblem, B Heroes, and Simon Fiduciaria extends runway.
  • Milan and Dublin hiring suggests active buildout across sales, product, and engineering.
  • Rising AI-shopping adoption in 2026 fits Veliu's agent-readable catalog positioning.

What critics are saying

  • Stealth since 2024 leaves customer traction unproven against Back Market and Swappie.
  • September 2026 jobs show nine openings, signaling burn before revenue visibility.
  • Agentic-commerce pivot risks product confusion; two narratives usually kill startup credibility fast.

What makes Veliu unique

  • 2026 product pivots to agent-readable catalogs for AI shopping agents.
  • July 2025 €3.4 million pre-seed funded Dublin-Milan team from Palantir, Apple, eBay.
  • No-code retail integration and 2,000 collection points simplify trade-in deployment.

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