Senior Applied Scientist - Lounge Recommendation and Search all genders
Senior Applied Scientist - Lounge Recommendation and Search all genders
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THE ROLE & THE TEAM
Lounge by Zalando is the leading online outlet in Europe offering limitedtime exclusive discounts on premium fashion and lifestyle brands. The Personal Relevance team at Lounge leverages data and advanced machine learning techniques to tailor customer experiences and communication.
As a Senior Applied Scientist you will drive our scientific roadmap deliver crossdepartment projects and work closely with Product Managers Engineers and other Applied Scientists across Zalando to enhance Lounges product discovery and customer communication. Your work will create more personalized and engaging experiences for millions of customers across Europe boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
We only assess candidates based on qualifications merit and business needs. We welcome applications from people of all gender identities sexual orientations personal expressions racial identities ethnicities religious beliefs and disability statuses. We only want to know why youre great for this role so please avoid including your picture age and marital status in your CV as well.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Please feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need so we can best support and assist you throughout the hiring process.
our diversity & inclusion strategy: employee resource groups: WED LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Develop and improve machine learning applications such as personalized recommendation systems to enhance our customers browsing experience and communication.
Translate ambiguous business challenges into research questions contribute to defining solutions and lead the endtoend applied science strategy including model selection problem formulation and approaches for training and inference. Develop and implement effective evaluation frameworks to assess the impact of initiatives analyze customer behavior and evaluate business performance.
Collaborate with product managers engineers and other scientists to craft efficient and inspiring customer experience while also contributing to crossfunctional initiatives beyond your immediate team to drive broader organizational impact.
Leverage highquality data a mature experimentation framework our advanced ML infrastructure and access to worldclass expertise in diverse fields such as generative AI image processing and NLP to quickly bring your ideas to production while rigorously measuring their impact.
Contribute to our research efforts through internal peer reviews and external publications in toptier journals and conferences.
WED LOVE TO MEET YOU IF:
Strong expertise in recommendation systems search information retrieval (IR) or closely related fields with at least 3 years of handson industry experience building and deploying scalable highperformance recommendation or search solutions.
At least 2 years of significant engineering experience in compiled languages such as Java Scala C Rust Golang C etc. (willingness to occasionally work in Java is required).
Excellent knowledge of machine learning and statistics with a strong track record in addressing realworld problems through empirical science particularly online A/B testing.
The ability to analyze business problems and partner with Product Managers and Engineers to turn customer needs into effective research and development plans as well as technical solutions.
Extensive handson experience with key recommender system techniques like deep learning gradient boosting trees LLMs vector search etc. preferably using libraries like PyTorch TensorFlow CatBoost Lucene FAISS etc.
Practical experience with largescale data processing and deploying machine learning models to production especially for realtime APIs (Databricks Spark Flink Beam Sagemaker Kubernetes REST APIs).
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits heres an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
Employee shares program
40 off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando 30 off Zalando Lounge discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with flexible hours and up to 60 remote
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
27 days of vacation a year to start
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services including counselling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available
ABOUT ZALANDO
Its the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey from being a pioneer in the world of ecommerce to the starting point for fashion in Europe. We connect customers brands and partners across 23 markets.
Help us drive digital and sustainable solutions for fashion logistics advertising and research bringing headtotoe fashion to more than 48 million active customers through a team of diverse skillsets cultural backgrounds and interests.
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Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form we do not accept applications via email.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
