Data Scientist (Search & Rankings)
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16 hours ago
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Job Summary
Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1400 of the worlds best brands boutiques and department stores delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.
PORTO
Our office is near Porto in the north of Portugal and is located in a vibrant business hub. It offers a dynamic and welcoming environment where our employees can connect and network with a large community of tech professionals.
TECHNOLOGY
Were on a mission to build end-to-end products and technology that powers the an incredible e-commerce experience for luxury customers everywhere understanding the motivations and needs of our customers and partners to designing and testing hypotheses to creating industry-leading experiences for luxury customers.
THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly motivated Data Scientist to join our Search & Rankings team within the Consumer Products domain. This team is responsible for the core discovery experience that connects millions of luxury fashion lovers with items from over 1400 of the worlds best brands.
You will work in a dynamic interdisciplinary team alongside Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers. While our MLEs focus on building robust MLOps pipelines and scaling infrastructure your focus will be on the brain of the system: deeply understanding user intent designing complex ranking logic and proving value through rigorous experimentation.
One of your primary focus areas will be Rankings. Advancing our Learning to Rank (LTR) approaches for Brand Category and Search PLPs which account for approximately 90% of our traffic. Additionally you will drive the modernization of our Search Engine solutions and broader discovery initiatives as our product scales.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Algorithm Development: Design and develop state-of-the-art Ranking algorithms and NLP models. You will define how products are ordered to maximize relevance and business value.
- Data Science & Strategy: Deeply explore our vast datasets (user behavior catalog metadata) to identify opportunities for personalization. You will answer the Why and What before we build the How.
- Experimentation: Own the A/B testing framework for ranking/search logic. You will analyze results to distinguish causal impact from noise ensuring we only ship changes that genuinely improve the customer experience.
- Model Prototyping: Build and validate high-quality model prototypes in Python. You will work closely with MLEs to translate these prototypes into scalable production-ready microservices.
- Collaboration: Partner with MLEs to ensure your models are compatible with our Databricks/PySpark infrastructure; Work with the Catalog Team to define feature requirements; Exchange insights with the Recommendations Team (our sister team in Consumer Products) to align on personalization strategies.
- Innovation: Stay updated with scientific advancements in Information Retrieval (IR) and Machine Learning bringing fresh ideas to the table.
WHO YOU ARE
- A graduate inMachine Learning Information Retrieval Data Science Computer Vision NLP or related fields.
- Algorithm Mastery: You have a solid understanding of Learning to Rank (e.g. LambdaMART RankNet) and Information Retrieval techniques. You should have deep expertise in the search domain spanning traditional methods like BM25 to modern Deep Learning approaches including Transformers architectures Sequence Modeling and Bi-Encoders.
- Python Stack: A strong expert in Python for Data Science (Pandas Scikit-learn PyTorch/TensorFlow PySpark).
- Data Fluency: Able to query and analyze complex data. Familiar with SQL and big data stores (i.e. BigQuery ADLS and Spark SQL) essential for gathering your own training data.
- Engineering Awareness: Comfortable writing clean code that can be easily handed off to MLEs. Experienced in microservices (FastAPI/Flask) is a strong plus. Experienced in Elasticsearch or Solr is also a plus.
- Scientific Mindset: You rely on data and experimentation to make decisions not just intuition.
- Adaptability: You are happy to pivot between deep Ranking problems and broader Search/Query understanding challenges as business needs shift.
- Team Player: You value collaboration over isolation and are eager to work with Engineers and Product Managers to ship real value.
REWARDS & BENEFITS
- Health insurance for the whole family flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
- Extra days off sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
- Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
- Flexible benefits program
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT
- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex race ethnicity religion or belief disability age gender identity ancestry sexual orientation veteran status marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
SCAM DISCLAIMER
- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels other than our official careers website. Additionally Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Immunoassays
- Machine Learning
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Spectroscopy
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
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