# Sr Applied Data Scientist - Personalization (applied ML, PyTorch, RecSys)

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Brooklyn Park, MN
**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

Join Target as a Senior Data Scientist on the Recommendations team, working on AI-driven digital Recommendation products. You'll collaborate with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and product managers to build and augment predictive algorithms using data at scale.

Responsibilities:

- Perform data exploration and analysis

- Implement algorithmic solutions given specifications

- Push solutions to production environment

- Analyze performance and trade-offs

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

- Build knowledge on business priorities and strategic goals

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 like 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

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($98,000 - $176,000)

- Comprehensive health benefits

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

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

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