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