Senior Principal Scientist, Personalization & Ranking

Zalando GmbH; Zürich; Remote; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture of learning

Relocation support

Employee discounts

Flexible hours

Job summary

Zalando GmbH in Zürich seeks a Senior Principal Applied Scientist to lead the scientific roadmap for ranking and personalization across the customer journey. You will guide a team of researchers and engineers applying deep learning, RL, and multi-objective optimisation to optimize product discovery for millions of customers.

You will mentor scientists, collaborate with product managers, and drive large, high-uncertainty projects from research to production while communicating with senior

Qualifications

• PhD in Machine Learning and AI required (or equivalent).
• 8+ years of industry experience in deep learning, multi-armed bandits, or large-scale sequential decision-making systems.
• Experience leading scientific roadmaps across multiple product areas.
• Strong publication record and ability to translate research into production ready solutions.

Responsibilities

• Research, deploy, and architect ML/DL solutions to improve personalization and ranking across the customer journey.
• Develop long-term research roadmaps and advise Zalando senior leadership on investments and strategy.
• Mentor senior and principal scientists and foster knowledge sharing within Zalando’s science community.
• Collaborate with product managers to deliver state-of-the-art ML solutions and manage high-uncertainty production deployments.

Skills

Deep Learning

Python

Machine Learning

Leadership

Research roadmap

Publications

Reinforcement Learning

Education

PhD in Machine Learning and AI

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

AWS

Job description

Zalando GmbH in Zürich seeks a Senior Principal Applied Scientist to lead the scientific roadmap for ranking and personalization across the customer journey. You will guide a team of researchers and engineers applying deep learning, RL, and multi-objective optimisation to optimize product discovery for millions of customers.

You will mentor scientists, collaborate with product managers, and drive large, high-uncertainty projects from research to production while communicating with senior