Principal Data Scientist

11 hours ago

Bengaluru Karnataka, India TARGET Full time

**Join Target Data Sciences team as a Principal Data Scientist - Merchandising**

As a Principal data scientist at Target, you will develop AI/ML models and algorithms that improve our business planning and operations. You will work closely with peer data scientists and business partners to develop a deep understanding of the various processes. Then you will partner with ML Engineers and Product engineers to build and productionize scalable solutions that meet our business needs.

Our team oversees the development and deployment of pricing and related merchandising AI/ML models at Target. The models that we build answer business questions like:

- What is the right price for this item at various store locations?
- How to best promote items in a particular department to meet the business objectives?
- How much space should we give for a particular department in a store?
- What is the best store layout?

In this role as a Principal data scientist, you will:

- Create our next generation pricing platform. Write code for mathematical and statistical models to evaluate right price for millions of items.
- Partner with business users and other scientists / product engineers to build a scalable framework that allows us to efficiently deploy the pricing engine
- Coordinate the analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of issues in our software and the broader infrastructure.

**What **we are** looking **for**:

- Masters in mathematics, statistics, operations research, economics, physics, computer science or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in modelling and algorithm design
- Significant expertise in linear algebra, statistics, information theory, econometrics, time series modelling, esp. in statistical inference, generalized linear models, Markov decision processes
- Experience in building price elasticity models
- Experience with optimization (LP/MILP)
- Experience with MLOps frameworks - Google vertex, MLFlow etc.
- Experience in Reinforcement Learning
- Highly proficient in Python
- Ability to scale algorithms using SPARK or other frameworks
- Ability to test and measure algorithms/models’ performance
- Ability and interest in technically mentoring junior data scientists
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

**Why work with us at Target?**
- You will work directly on the AI/ML problems that have the most impact on Target's entire supply chain, forecasting and merchandising.
- We love open source Many of our team members contribute to open-source communities and get to do it during work time. We try to contribute back to our communities where we can and are grateful to be able to open source some of our own projects
- We value diversity. We believe that diversity and inclusion is of core importance when try to create positive in-store experiences for our guests, and we think it is also critically important when building our teams. Read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion
- We value our team members for who they are, not just what they can get done. We treat out team members like people, not like cogs in a machine. We are parents, hobbyists, enthusiasts, family members, and community members, and can offer flexibility to our team members' schedules and work arrangements so that they can flourish both inside and outside of work.

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