Data Scientist

Just Eat Takeaway.com
London
4 days ago
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Data Scientist (Globally Renowned Retail Group)

Hungry for a challenge?

Our mission? To empower every food moment around the world, whether it’s through

customer service, coding or couriers.

About this role:

Join our Customer Data Science (CDS) team and build the engine that powers our customer experience. You won’t just tweak existing models; you will deploy ML and AI solutions that shape how millions of users discover our apps. Backed by a state-of-the-art ML platform and some of the richest datasets in the industry, this is your chance to move beyond proof-of-concepts and see your work drive real-world impact.

These are some ingredients to the role:

  • Impact at Scale: Your algorithms will solve complex ranking and search problems, instantly affecting the user journey for millions of customers.
  • Cutting-Edge Tech: Pioneer the integration of Generative AI, Large Language Models, and real-time features into our foundation models and search and recommendation engines.
  • Autonomy: We trust you to lead well-defined assignments independently, owning projects from conception to production.
  • Growth Culture: Work alongside highly skilled colleagues in an ambitious, diverse team that prioritizes your development and career progression.
  • Build & Deploy: Take a hands-on role in exploring data and building training pipelines to ensure models are scalable, robust, and solve real business problems.
  • Innovate with GenAI: Apply Generative AI approaches to create hyper-personalized experiences in our apps.
  • Drive Decisions: Partner with stakeholders to transform business needs into actionable methodologies, using your evaluations to influence product strategy.
  • Engineer for Success: Collaborate with Data and ML Engineers to enhance pipelines and apply MLOps best practices across the model lifecycle

What will you bring to the table?

  • The Experience: Hands-on data science experience with a track record of building ML/AI solutions that drive quantifiable business value.
  • Strong Foundations: A solid grasp of data mining, feature engineering, modeling, and evaluation specifically within the search and recommendations domain.
  • The GenAI Edge: Practical experience applying Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vector Search techniques (e.g., semantic retrieval, embeddings).
  • Evidence-Driven: The ability to design and evaluate both ML models and LLMs in offline and online experiments.
  • The Toolkit: Fluent in Python with the ability to write clean, testable code that integrates seamlessly with engineering workflows.
  • SQL Mastery: Expert navigation of complex data warehouses (BigQuery) to wrangle huge datasets without hand-holding.
  • The Mindset: An analytical problem solver who values simplicity, brings clarity to ambiguous questions, and communicates complex insights effectively to any audience.

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

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