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Senior Data Scientist – Customer Intent, Decision Engine
Location
United States
Posted
100 days ago
Salary
$83K - $138.2K / year
Postgraduate Degree4 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud Platform
Job Description
• Design and implement large-scale decision engines that dynamically resolve customer identity and intent in real time.
• Develop optimization frameworks (multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, constrained optimization) to balance personalization, business KPIs, and operational constraints.
• Build session-based and sequence-aware models (transformers, RNNs, temporal point processes) to capture evolving customer intent.
• Incorporate multimodal signals (clickstream, search queries, transaction history, CRM attributes) into unified intent prediction pipelines.
• Deploy models with low-latency inference for real-time decisioning at scale.
• Define rigorous evaluation metrics (precision/recall for identity resolution, uplift for causal models, latency for decision engines).
• Lead online experimentation (A/B tests, multi-cell experiments) to validate model impact on personalization, conversion, and customer experience.
• Apply counterfactual evaluation techniques to measure causal impact of identity decisions.
• Translate technical insights into clear recommendations for product, marketing, and executive stakeholders.
• Partner with product managers to align decision engine outputs with business objectives (e.g., personalization, fraud prevention, customer support).
• Ensure models are production-ready with robust monitoring, retraining schedules, and A/B testing frameworks.
• Implement feature stores and model registries to streamline experimentation and deployment.
Job Requirements
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in data science, machine learning or AI with a track record delivering production systems.
- Strong proficiency in hybrid modeling techniques.
- Machine Learning: e.g. deep learning, sequence models and transformers, recommender systems.
- Simulation and Mathematical Programming: e.g. MIP, agent simulation, LP etc.
- Causal Inference: e.g. Treatment effect estimation, counterfactual reasoning etc.
- Experience building real-time recommendation systems that adapt to evolving customer behavior and context, using session-based modeling, embeddings, and reinforcement learning.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning or contextual bandits for adaptive decisioning in dynamic environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise orchestration layers, integrating models into backend systems that power search, fulfillment, customer support, and personalization.
- Skilled in designing and analyzing A/B tests.
- Experience in an Agile working environment and at least one related project management tool (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.).
- Comfortable presenting results to cross functional partners and help them understand technical trade offs.
- Brings a collaborative, problem solving and growth mindset to all interactions with a strong focus on delivery.
- Prior work in eCommerce, retail, or customer identity resolution.
- Experience with synthetic data generation or simulation frameworks for intent modeling.
- Knowledge of optimization modeling (decision trees, bandits, reinforcement learning for personalization).
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
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