Staff/Lead Data Scientist (Bangkok based, Relocation provided)

About the role

The Data Science and Machine Learning (AI/ML) team at Agoda is responsible for designing, coding, experimenting, and implementing models and algorithms to maximize customer experience, supply side value, business outcomes, and infrastructure readiness. You will work with 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, experiment and implement models and algorithms to maximize customer experience, supply side value, business outcomes, and infrastructure readiness.
• 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 data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, etc.
• Experience with distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop, etc.
• Experience with machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, etc.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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