Senior Data Scientist-Search

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Job Id: R0000395586

About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's 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 you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t 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 Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s 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, you’ll be challenged to harness Target’s 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

Target Data Sciences is offering an exciting opportunity to solve state of the art problems in e-commerce search. Target’s Search Technology team is rapidly growing and creating a massive business impact by building cutting edge search systems. We use NLP, deep learning, classical machine learning and LLMs to build the best in class systems. As we build the future of e-commerce search, we are looking for driven and passionate individuals with deep expertise in building ML and engineering systems for Search. If you are that person, you can expect to be involved in:

  • Designing, building and and integrating systems for solving problems across query and content understanding, ranking and relevance and external search
  • Influencing roadmaps and driving its execution with a team of talented scientists and engineers
  • Developing a multi-year vision for search on Target.com

Preferred domain experience
Creating tech led solutions in e-commerce search and recommendations

About You:

  • 4-year degree in quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of professional experience or equivalent industry experience
  • Good knowledge and experience developing deep learning, NLP, classical ML and LLM based solutions
  • Strong analytical thinking skills. Ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches, where required
  • Strong hands-on programming skills in Python, SQL and Spark
  • Passion for solving interesting and relevant real-world problems using a data science approach
  • Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Self-driven and results oriented
  • Strong team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/time zones

Competitive benefits

We are proud to provide benefits that support you, your family and your future.

Health and well-being

Target in India (TII) prioritizes our people by offering healthcare support, fitness programs, teleheath benefits (i.e., screenings and consultations) and 24/7 confidential mental well-being telecounseling support.

Financial well-being

Your financial well-being is bright with TII's comprehensive flexible insurance program, National Pension System, learning assistance program, day care support and much more.

Paid time off

TII encourages work-life balance with paid time off like privilege, casual, bereavement and parental leaves that offer support in all stages of life.

Competitive pay

TII knows our people are everything and proudly provides equitable and competitive pay.

Other benefits

From digitalized cafeteria solutions to transportation services to broadband reimbursement, enjoy special everyday perks.

Creating a culture of joy

We bring out the best in each other every day.

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Inclusivity

We value diverse voices and approaches. We act with authenticity and respect. We create equitable experiences for all.

Connection

We build trusted relationships. We collaborate across business functions. We recognize and celebrate progress.

Drive

We do what is right for Target, our team and guests. We deliver results that matter. We continually learn by valuing progress over perfection.

Grow with Target

We are fully invested in your personal and professional growth because our people are our power. 

Target's leadership truly empowers personal and professional growth, fostering an environment where we care, grow and win together.

Sandeep Sr. Engineering Manager – Target Tech, Corporate

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