Lead Data Scientist

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2025
Onsite
Full-Time
5 Years
Job Description

Are you passionate about leveraging data to revolutionize e-commerce experiences? MakeMyTrip is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to spearhead our hotel ranking recommendation systems.

In this role, you will

  1. Build Cutting-Edge Models. Develop, deploy, and monitor advanced DL/ML ranking search models, learning to rank algorithms, and boosting algorithms.
  2. Collaborate Across Teams. Engage closely with product and tech teams throughout the project lifecycle, from data acquisition to A/B testing and model iterations.
  3. Mentorship. Guide and mentor junior data scientists and software engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.
  4. Platform Ownership. Take ownership of our ranking platform, enhancing infrastructure pipelines, evaluation processes, and APIs to maintain a 99% SLA at high RPS with low latencies.
  5. Business Impact. Utilize extensive datasets from MakeMyTrip & GoIbibo to drive significant business impact through innovative data science solutions.

Desired Profile

  1. Expert Data Scientists. Highly proficient in DL/ML ranking and re-ranking methodologies, with a strong foundation in mathematics and statistics.
  2. Deep Learning Mastery. Experienced in training and deploying deep learning models specifically for ranking and search systems.
  3. Model Diversity. Skilled in training various models including tabular DL, sequential, and graph neural networks (GNNs), with expertise in user, session, and product/item representation learning.
  4. Analytical Skills. Capable of conducting complex SQL and Python data analyses, performing error analyses, and evaluating A/B metrics to bridge business and offline metrics effectively.
  5. Adaptable. Comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, business impact-driven data science environment.

Qualifications

  1. Education. BE/BTech from Tier 1 colleges (IITs/ IIIT/ NITs), with an MS or Ph.D. in CS/ECE/AI/ML or equivalent fields.
  2. Experience. 5-8 years of overall experience in Data Science/AI/ML, with at least 2+ years in e-commerce B2C environments.

Join Us

Embark on a rewarding journey where you'll transform data into tangible business assets and drive substantial business impact through cutting-edge data science. Apply now and become an integral part of the dynamic world of data science and e-commerce at MakeMyTrip.