Data Scientist- Item Science

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400000 team members worldwide Target is an iconic brand and one of Americas leading retailers.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here we believe your unique perspective is important and youll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII

At Target we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasnt happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Targets global team and has more than 4000 team members supporting the companys global strategy and operations.

Pyramid Overview

A role with Target Data Science & Engineering means the chance to help develop and manage state of the art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions at scale. Whether you join our Statistics Optimization or Machine Learning teams youll be challenged to harness Targets impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in Marketing Supply Chain Optimization Network Security and Personalization rely on.

Team Overview:

A role withItem Sciencemeans the chance to help develop and managestate of the artGenAI Computer Vision NLP and ML algorithms. Youll be challenged to harness Targets impressive data breadth to build the algorithmsthat power solutions our partners in Mech/item Digital etc rely on. Every Scientist on Targets Data Sciences team can expect modelling and data science software/product development of highly performant code for Model Performance to elevate Targets culture and apply retail domain knowledge.

Position Overview:

As a Data Scientist youll Influence by interacting within the Data Sciences team perform within the scale and scope of your role by implementing solutions and contribute to Data Sciences and Targets culture by modelling the culture. Youll get the opportunity to use your expertise in one or more of the following areas: machine learning probability theory & statistics Deep Learning GenAI Natural Language processing or computer vision. We expect you to understand and actively follow foundational programming principles (best practices know about unit tests code organization basics of CI/CD etc.) and create a well-maintainable & tested codebase with relevant documentation. You will get the opportunity to develop in one or more approved programming languages (Java Scala Python R) and learn and adhere to best practices in data analysis and data understanding.
As you follow agile processes you will implement prototypes for individual components of software or data science solutions and understand and leverage basic data structures and algorithms in implementing solutions. Leverage your high-level understanding in business domain to gain knowledge of high-level Target business priorities strategic goals and their impact as well as details of the specific business sub-problem you are focused on. You will collaborate with peers on their product and document and present work to peers and participate in code reviews and gain broader understanding of different components within the application. The exciting part of retail Its always changing!

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You:

4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) or equivalent experience
Solid foundations in math and programming
Strong fundamentals in Probability Statistics Linear Algebra
Strong analytical thinking skills with an ability to creatively solve business problems innovating new approaches where required
Strong hands-on programming skills in Python SQL Hadoop/Hive ML engineering.
Good working knowledge of deep learning Computer vision GenAI ML
Passion for solving interesting and relevant real-world problems using a data science approach
Able to produce reasonable documents/narrative suggesting actionable insights
Excellent communication skills and ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations graphs and narratives
Self-driven and results oriented
Strong team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/time zones

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About Us:As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400000 team members worldwide Target is an iconic brand and one of Americas leading retailers.Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team membe...