Senior Research Scientist

• Research evaluate and adapt state-of-the-art techniques to solve large-scale AI problems.  

• Lead the development and application of machine learning innovations to complex business challenges with minimal supervision. 

• Drive innovation in Information Retrieval Product Matching Recommendation Systems    NLP and Generative AI.  

• Assess the applicability of emerging research and identify opportunities for adoption across multiple business initiatives.  

• Design and conduct advanced experiments and feasibility studies to guide technical strategy.  

• Develop scalable reproducible and maintainable machine learning solutions and research frameworks.  

• Collaborate with Applied AI and Engineering teams to enable adoption of research outcomes.  

• Mentor and support other scientists and contribute to the technical growth of the team.  

• Lead or contribute to scientific publications patents and conference submissions.  

• Communicate technical vision research findings and strategic recommendations to stakeholders across technical and business functions.  

• Promote engineering excellence scientific rigor and best practices across research initiatives. 

Qualifications :

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Mathematics Physics or a related quantitative discipline.  

• 7 years of experience in Machine Learning Deep Learning or AI research.  

• Demonstrated expertise in training transformer-based models for Information Retrieval Recommendation Systems Product Matching NLP or related domains.  

• Experience training custom SLMs and /or small reasoning models. 

• Advanced experience with Python PyTorch Hugging Face Pandas Scikit-learn and Git.  

• Strong experience with Transformer architectures embeddings and representation learning.  

• Experience with vector databases (e.g. FAISS ChromaDB Pinecone) and retrieval-based systems.  

• Ability to understand evaluate and extend ideas from scientific literature.  

• Strong analytical problem-solving stakeholder management and communication skills. 

• Proven ability to independently drive research initiatives from concept through adoption.

Good to Have 

• PhD in a relevant field.  

• Publications in leading conferences (e.g. ACL EMNLP SIGIR KDD NeurIPS ICML ICLR RecSys).  

• Experience mentoring researchers or leading technical initiatives.  

• Experience with RAG architectures LLMs and agent-based frameworks.  

• Experience with Knowledge Graphs.  

• Experience in retail consumer intelligence ecommerce or FMCG domains. 

• Experience with Databricks SQL Elasticsearch. 

Additional Information :

Salary:  gross per year.  This role might also be eligible for a performance-based bonus. Placement within the range will depend on objective criteria including experience skills and internal equity considerations. We are committed to equal pay and pay transparency. Remuneration decisions are made using gender-neutral and objective criteria.

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

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Employment Type :

Full-time