ruelala · Boston, MA, United States, New York, NY, United States
Skills: Python, SQL, AWS
Title of role: Senior Data Scientist Location: New York or Boston; Hybrid (2 days in the office required) Approved Salary Range: 145k- 150k About the Role : Rue Gilt Groupe is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to build and ship the personalization systems behind Rue La La, Gilt, and ShopSimon. You will own products end to end, not just the models behind them: from problem framing and success metrics through feature engineering, training, real-time serving, and monitoring, and see your work reach 50M+ members every day. Flash sale off-price is one of the hardest settings in e-commerce for recommendations. Inventory is limited and short-lived, new products and boutiques launch daily, and cold start is the norm, not the edge case. If that sounds like a fun problem, we would like to talk. Key Responsibilities: Personalization at scale: Ranking and recommendation models that power product discovery across boutiques, product pages, and our AI shopping assistant Core algorithms: Boutique sort, similar styles, complete the look, and real-time reranking that blends member intent with merchandising goals Exploration and learning: Contextual bandits and adaptive strategies that adjust the experience to how each member likes to shop Product and model ownership: Shape the roadmap and success metrics with Product, then build the production training and inference pipelines, batch and real-time, with the monitoring and reliability to match Experimentation: Design offline evaluation and online A/B tests, and turn results into clear decisions with Product and Merchandising GenAI where it helps: Use LLMs and embeddings where they improve recommendations, and expose models as tools the shopping assistant can call Cross-functional impact: Partner with engineering, product, marketing, and merchandising teams, and present your work to leadership Experience and Background Needed : Contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, or cold-start techniques Embeddings, two-tower or sequence models, an…
Sign in to see the original posting
Browse more developer jobs on RoleBurst