Senior Data Scientist (Remote)

Job Profile: Senior Data Scientist- Recommendations

Location: Bangalore | Karnataka

Years of Experience: 6 – 10 years

About Swiggy

Swiggy is India’s leading on-demand delivery platform with a tech-first approach to logistics and a solution-first approach to consumer demands. With a presence in 500+ cities across India, partnerships with hundreds of thousands of restaurants, an employee base of over 5000, a 2 lakh+ strong independent fleet of Delivery Executives, we deliver unparalleled convenience driven by continuous innovation. Built on the back of robust ML technology and fueled by terabytes of data processed every day, Swiggy offers a fast, seamless and reliable delivery experience for millions of customers across India.

From starting out as a hyperlocal food delivery service in 2014, to becoming India’s leading on-demand convenience platform today, our capabilities result not only in lightning-fast delivery for customers, but also in a productive and fulfilling experience for our employees.

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE:

The Data Science team at Swiggy builds innovative data science products that power unique customer experiences beginning from the time you launch the app until the order is delivered. This team builds state of the art Machine Learning/Deep Learning models at scale.

As a Senior Data Scientist in the Recommendations & Ranking team, you will work on problems that impact millions of customers.

What qualities are we looking for?

• Masters/PhD in Computer Science or related field
• A minimum of 6 years of industry experience with Data Science in product based organizations, including a minimum of 1 year experience in shipping recommendation/personalization models in high-throughput, low-latency settings
• Strong Machine Learning fundamentals along with deep experience with Deep Learning
• Strong problem formulation and solving skills.
• Prior experience with working on terabyte-scale data in a Spark environment is required.
• Prior experience with Python, SQL, TensorFlow/Pytorch is required and exposure to Scala is preferred.
• Good product thinking and ability to map customer-backward problems to ML-led solutions.

What will you get to do here?

• Formulate and implement innovative solutions to business problems using state of the art Machine Learning/Deep Learning models
• Leverage Swiggy’s rich data at scale to build deeply personalized recommendation systems
• Leverage our mature ML infrastructure to deploy models and conduct experiments
• Work with and mentor fellow Data Scientists
• Contribute and co-own the product roadmap.

Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some the challenges we deal with:

• https://bytes.swiggy.com/improving-search-relevance-in-hyperlocal-food-delivery-using-small-language-models-ecda2acc24e6
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/new-user-product-recommendations-for-q-commerce-via-hierarchical-cross-domain-learning-0a7f97b25405
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/reflecting-on-a-year-of-generative-ai-at-swiggy-a-brief-review-of-achievements-learnings-and-13a9671dc624

*We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law*