Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DICK'S Sporting Goods is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. The Senior Data Scientist, Search & Recommendations will be a key contributor within the AI/ML team, responsible for building and improving intelligent search and recommendation systems to enhance customer experiences. This role involves designing and deploying machine learning models in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement machine learning models for search and recommendation systems, including ranking, retrieval, personalization, and query understanding
- Build ranking and recommendation models using user behavior, embeddings, content signals, and contextual features
- Develop personalization systems that tailor results based on user behavior, preferences, and contextual signals (e.g., location, browsing history)
- Collaborate with data and search engineers to build scalable data pipelines supporting search and recommendation systems
- Partner with software engineers to integrate ML models into production services via APIs
- Design and execute A/B tests to evaluate model performance and business impact
- Monitor offline and online metrics to identify opportunities for improving relevance, ranking, and engagement
- Apply modern ML and GenAI techniques (embeddings, LLM-based approaches) to improve search and discovery experiences
- Contribute to best practices in modeling, experimentation, and production ML systems
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied AI
- Strong experience with search, recommendation systems, or ranking problems
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and/or Solr
- Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Experience with large-scale data processing tools such as Spark and distributed systems
- Experience integrating ML models into production systems via APIs
- Experience with experimentation frameworks and A/B testing
- Strong understanding of ML fundamentals: supervised learning, ranking models, embeddings, deep learning
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Exposure to GenAI tools (OpenAI APIs, LangChain, or similar)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related quantitative field preferred
- 5-8 years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied AI
Benefits
- Incentive
- Equity
- Benefits
- DICK'S Sporting Goods complies with all state paid leave requirements.
- We also offer a generous suite of benefits.
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