Join our dynamic team at MakeMyTrip as a Principal/Senior Principal Data Scientist, where you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our hotel ranking recommendation systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop, deploy, and oversee state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) models for ranking search, including learning to rank algorithms and multi-objective ranking boosting algorithms.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across product and tech teams throughout the project lifecycle, from data acquisition and problem definition to A/B experimentation and iterative model refinement.
- Mentor and guide junior data scientists and software engineers, fostering their growth and development.
- Take ownership of the ranking platform, optimizing model infrastructure pipelines, evaluation pipelines, and scalable APIs to ensure a 99% SLA with high requests per second (RPS) and low latencies.
- Utilize extensive datasets from MakeMyTrip & GoIbibo to drive substantial business impact through innovative data science solutions.
Desired Profile
- Advanced proficiency in DL/ML ranking and re-ranking methodologies, with a solid foundation in mathematics and statistics.
- Demonstrated experience in training and deploying deep learning models specifically for ranking and search systems.
- Expertise in training tabular DL models, sequential models, graph neural networks (GNNs), and in user, session, and product/item representation learning.
- Strong skills in performing complex SQL and Python-based data analyses, error analyses, A/B metric evaluations, and effectively bridging business requirements with offline metrics.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment driven by quarterly business impact goals.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (BE/BTech) from premier institutes such as IITs/IIITs/NITs.
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related fields.
- 8-11 years of professional experience in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or Machine Learning, with at least 3+ years in e-commerce B2C environments.
Join us and become an integral part of a team that converts data into strategic business assets, creating significant business outcomes through the power of data science. Apply now and embark on a rewarding journey in the field of data science and e-commerce with MakeMyTrip.