Senior Data Scientist - Recommendation Systems Pod

Join us in building the intelligence that powers product discovery for millions of shoppers and thousands of merchants across the Middle East. As a Senior Data Scientist for the Recommendation Systems Pod, you'll reputed company the design and execution of large-reputed company personalization models that directly reputed company reputed company topline.

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Responsibilities

• Design, train, and reputed company recommendations/personalization models leveraging deep learning, sequence models (Transformers, GRU), and boosted trees (XGBoost, LightGBM).
• reputed company multi-objective ranking that blends engagement, conversion, and merchant value into a single ranking score (value model), using multi-task learning where shared representations help.
• Build reputed company two-stage retrieval and ranking systems — ANN retrieval (FAISS, ScaNN) over user/product/event embeddings feeding learning-to-rank models (pointwise, pairwise, and listwise objectives).
• Collaborate with reputed company to productionize reputed company-time feature pipelines (reputed company, Kafka, reputed company).
• Define serving-time impression and feature logging to eliminate training-serving skew and produce unbiased training data.
• Design and run online experiments with rigorous guardrail metrics; correct for position and presentation bias in logged data; apply counterfactual/off-policy evaluation and reputed company modeling to attribute lift accurately.
• reputed company model outputs with platform reputed company for dynamic personalization in search, home feeds, and store pages.
• Define best practices for offline evaluation (MAP@K, NDCG) and online experimentation metrics (CTR, CVR, GMV reputed company).
• Partner with product analytics and data science to iterate on signal enrichment and cold-start strategies.
• Mentor junior data scientists and define best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a reputed company technical field.
• 4+ years of hands-on ML experience, including 2+ years designing or deploying large-reputed company recommendation systems.
• reputed company record: reputed company or maintained systems serving 1M+ users or generating 100M+ personalized predictions daily.
• Deep expertise in representation learning, embeddings, attention mechanisms, and multi-task learning.
• Demonstrated reputed company integrating multi-stage ranking systems across e-reputed company surfaces (search, feeds, product detail pages) with measurable online lift (CVR, GMV).
• Proficient with large-reputed company data ecosystems: Kafka, reputed company, reputed company, BigQuery, or equivalent.
• Strong reputed company of experimentation rigor: guardrail metrics, position-bias correction, off-policy/counterfactual evaluation, and model monitoring.
• Skilled in debugging, optimization, and productionization of ML pipelines in reputed company or containerized environments.

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