Senior Data Scientist - GenAI
Senior Data Scientist - GenAI
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Job Description
The Role
As a Senior Data Scientist at SEEK youll be part of a fast-paced supportive environment where you can make a real difference. Youll work on complex challenges that have a direct impact on peoples lives helping us evolve our business and reach new heights.
You will report a Data Science Lead and work alongside other highly motivated Data Scientists in the Generative AI team. You will collaborate with product managers designers engineers and others across multiple teams to design and develop Generative AI solutions for both internal and external (customer-facing) use cases.
Key Responsibilities
In this role you will be expected to:
- Research propose and implement new AI solutions (and evolve existing ones) to improve a product or business outcome.
- Compile and develop datasets as appropriate to train or evaluate AI systems.
- Perform offline evaluation of AI systems and contribute to the design of online experiments.
- Evangelise appropriate AI methods and explain their benefits and limitations to various audiences acting as a technical reference within the business on topics related to AI.
- Break down problems and projects estimate and prioritise activities and propose alternatives to overcome obstacles.
- Work together with Product Managers Engineers and other stakeholders to build relationships within the organisation based on trust.
- Mentor junior Data Scientists and share technical expertise with the DS team.
The Team
Situated within the larger Artificial Intelligence & Analytics team at SEEK the Generative AI team is a practice team focusing on GenAI. The GenAI team has two streams of work. The Applications stream partners with SEEK product owners and may embed Data Scientists into the team to develop and test opportunities to build GenAI-based services. The Capabilities stream builds early-stage prototypes to test the latest GenAI technology and also develops core functionality into platform capabilities to enable sustainable scaling of GenAI services.
We work on a quarterly planning cycle to develop our roadmap which consists of internal R&D projects as well as partnerships with internal product teams where we act as specialist consultants. As a Senior Data Scientist you will work autonomously to deliver one or more initiatives for the team. The team runs various team rituals such as weekly stand-ups and knowledge sharing sessions monthly team retrospectives and others as needed. You will also attend project-related meetings as necessary.
Qualifications :
Essential Qualifications Skills and Experience
- A MSc or PhD qualification in Computer Science Data Science Mathematics Statistics or equivalent experience.
- Professional experience developing and delivering AI/ML solutions.
- Deep understanding of the theory and practice of how to build train evaluate and optimise AI/ML models.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate complex ideas in simple language.
- Ability to adapt quickly and thrive in an environment of rapid change.
The following are preferred but not essential:
- Demonstrated experience leading AI/ML projects and managing multiple stakeholders.
- Deep technical knowledge of the foundations of Generative AI: deep learning; transformers; encoder/decoder models; pre-training and post-training; RLFH; LORA.
- Hands-on experience training or adapting large language models.
- Hands-on experience building solutions with pre-trained LLMs using techniques such as prompt engineering RAG agentic workflows etc.
- Experience with conversational design and developing conversational AI systems.
Additional Information :
Perks and benefits
- Annual Performance Bonus Plan
- Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
- Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Casual dress every day
At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.
We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.
Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.
For this role only those with eligible right to work will be considered.
SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
