Applied Scientist - Search/NLP/IR (All Genders)

Zalando GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading fashion e-commerce company based in Berlin is seeking an Applied Scientist to enhance search experiences using NLP and machine learning. The ideal candidate will have a PhD and over 4 years of industry experience, particularly in deep learning and NLP, along with strong Python skills. This role offers a competitive salary, and opportunities for personal development in a diverse and dynamic team environment.

Leistungen

Competitive salary

Employee share shop

Zalando shopping discount

Flexible working times

Relocation assistance

Extensive onboarding and development opportunities

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years of industry experience in NLP and deep learning.
• Experience leading scientific roadmap and collaborating with product teams.
• Track record of addressing real-world problems through machine learning.
• Published track record at top-tier venues.

Aufgaben

• Build intelligent, scalable, and personalized search experiences.
• Contribute to executing scientific roadmap in collaboration with teams.
• Address challenging Search-related problems using state-of-the-art methods.

Kenntnisse

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Python programming

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Cloud Computing

Ausbildung

PhD in NLP, IR, machine learning or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

The Search Team is at the core of Zalando’s experience and fashion discoverability. The team’s goal is to build intelligent, scalable, and personalized search experiences that connect customers with the most relevant fashion items. We aim to make every search faster, smarter, and more inspiring—turning intent into discovery. As part of the larger Search and Recommendations department, you will work with colleagues in Recommendations to optimize the customer journey to drive next level commercial impact.

For that, we are evolving our Search systems utilizing state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and/or information retrieval (IR) methods, particularly transformer-based deep neural networks and large language models (LLMs).

As an Applied Scientist, you will address challenging Search-related problems using cutting-edge approaches. You will contribute to execute our scientific roadmap, applying your scientific capabilities and in collaboration with a team of exceptional scientists and engineers developing models and cutting-edge machine learning products that enhance the experience of over 51 million customers.

What we’re looking for

• PhD in NLP, IR, machine learning, or related fields (or equivalent experience), accompanied by 4+ years of industry experience, especially deep learning based NLP and/or IR methods.
• Experience leading and shaping the scientific roadmap of the teams in products that span across multiple areas and working with senior AS leaders. Ability to discover new business opportunities collaborating with product, science, and engineering managers and solve business problems through scientific solutions.
• Extensive track record of addressing real-world problems using machine learning throughout the entire product cycle, and raises departments and Zalando’s best practice in methods, algorithms and technology, including architecture, design patterns, and research roadmaps.
• Authority on deep learning and track record of leveraging research to advance the state of the art, including publication records at top-tier venues.
• Extensive hands-on experience in deep learning with proficiency in Python and frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. Expertise with LLMs and their applications in IR. Proficiency in cloud computing platforms such as AWS is also required.

Perks at work

• Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
• Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
• Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
• Relocation assistance for internationals

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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About Zalando

It’s the perfect time to join Zalando on our journey to build the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce. Help us offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 52 million active customers in 26 markets. Or be part of our logistic infrastructure, software or service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. Join our Zalando ecosystem, to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.