Staff/Lead Data Scientist (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)
About the role
The Data Science and Machine Learning (AI/ML) team at Agoda is seeking a skilled data scientist to work on complex challenges such as dynamic pricing, predicting customer intents in real time, ranking search results to maximize lifetime value, classifying and deep learning content and personalization signals from unstructured data such as images and text, making personalized recommendations, innovating algorithm-supported promotions and products for supply partners, discovering insights from big data, and innovating the user experience. The successful candidate will design, code, experiment, and implement models and algorithms to maximize customer experience, supply side value, business outcomes, and infrastructure readiness.
Responsibilities
- Mine a big data of hundreds of millions of customers and more than 600M daily user generated events, supplier and pricing data, and discover actionable insights to drive improvements and innovation.
- Work with developers and a variety of business owners to deliver daily results with the best quality.
- Research, discover, and harness new ideas that can make a difference.
Requirements
- 4+ years hands-on data science experience.
- Excellent understanding of AI/ML/DL and Statistics, as well as coding proficiency using related open source libraries and frameworks.
- Significant proficiency in SQL and languages like Python, PySpark and/or Scala.
- Can lead, work independently as well as play a key role in a team.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills for working in a multicultural work environment.
Qualifications
- PhD or MSc in Computer Science / Operations Research / Statistics or other quantitative fields
- Experience in NLP, image processing and/or recommendation systems
- Hands on experience in data engineering, working with big data framework like Spark/Hadoop
- Experience in data science for e-commerce and/or OTA
Skills
- Strong programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-Learn.
- Knowledge of statistical analysis and data modeling techniques.
- Experience with distributed computing and big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
- Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI).
Benefits
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Pay
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Schedule
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