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

Target Brooklyn Park, MN Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$98,000 - $176,000 per year

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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

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