Senior Data Scientist
KDS Kohl's, Inc.RemoteFull Time6d ago
PythonRGCPMachine LearningLLMMLData ScienceSparkSQLMarketingSupportTalent
Job description
Senior Data Scientist at KDS Kohl's, Inc.
About the role
Join a data science team focused on solving complex business issues and driving informed decisions through advanced analytics and machine learning. You will contribute to enhancing customer experiences and optimizing business operations.
Key facts
What you'll do
- Analyze large datasets to uncover valuable insights and inform strategy.
- Collaborate with business partners to understand needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Build, refine, and deploy statistical and machine learning models.
- Design experiments to validate hypotheses and measure impact.
- Develop and maintain systems for personalized customer experiences and product recommendations.
- Address challenges related to new products and less common items in large catalogs.
- Support the real-time delivery and scalable implementation of personalization models.
- Guide and mentor junior data scientists.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- At least 3 years of experience in data science, with increasing responsibility.
- Extensive experience creating and implementing advanced algorithms using machine learning, statistics, and optimization techniques.
- Expertise in Python, R, Spark, SQL, and cloud platforms such as GCP.
- Proven ability to solve problems and contribute to product development.
- Experience proposing and executing experiments to test new strategies.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with recommendation systems, search, or ranking problems involving millions of customers and products.
- Experience developing sequential or transformer models, and using LLMs in production.
- Understanding of collaborative filtering and learning-to-rank methods.
- Experience optimizing models for GPU or distributed training.
- Familiarity with large datasets and production ML systems.
- Exposure to real-time or low-latency serving environments.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or Ph.D.
- Experience in the retail or logistics industries.
- Familiarity with supply chain management or marketing models.
- Experience with vector search or approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) methods like FAISS or ScaNN.
Skills & tools
- Python
- R
- Spark
- SQL
- GCP
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Modeling
- Optimization
- Recommendation Systems
- Sequential Models
- Transformer Models
- LLMs
- Collaborative Filtering
- Learning-to-Rank
- GPU Training
- Distributed Training
- Vector Search / ANN (FAISS, ScaNN)
Practical notes
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
- No travel is expected for this position.