# Sr Data Scientist – Recommendations (RecSys)

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $98,000.00 - $176,000.00
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our Target Data Science Recommendations team. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work on building and augmenting our AI-driven digital Recommendation products. You will collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and product managers to develop and manage state-of-the-art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions.

Responsibilities:

- Perform data exploration and analysis

- Implement algorithmic solutions given specifications

- Push solutions to our production environment

- Analyze performance and trade-offs

- Understand Agile principles and follow best-practice software design

- Participate in code reviews and create a maintainable and well-tested codebase with relevant documentation

- Document and present work to technical and non-technical peers

- Build knowledge on business priorities and strategic goals and leverage this knowledge while building requirements and solutions for each business need

Requirements:

- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research or relevant work experience

- 3+ years of experience developing machine learning models using deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX

- Experience building recommendation, personalization, search, ranking or retrieval systems at scale

- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL

- Demonstrated experience with optimization, statistics, probability and experimental design

- Experience evaluating models through offline analysis on large-scale datasets and online experimentation, including statistical analysis and interpretation of results

- Knowledge of large-scale data processing and analytics platforms such as Spark

- Extensive experience leveraging generative AI tools to accelerate development, experimentation and model delivery

- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and results to both technical and non-technical audiences

- Demonstrated ability to translate business problems into scalable data science solutions

- Self-driven, results-oriented and able to meet tight deadlines

- Motivated team player who thrives in a collaborative - global environment

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short term disability

- Long term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- PyTorch
- JAX
- Spark
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Statistics
- Probability
- Optimization

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