Project Lead- Data Science (Search and Match)

BOLD; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Tax-friendly compensation structure

Bi-annual bonus

Comprehensive health benefits

Flexible leave policy

Internet and home office reimbursement

Internet and home office reimbursement

In-office catered lunch

Job summary

A leading data solutions company in India is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join their dynamic team. This role involves leveraging analytical skills and business knowledge to provide insights and drive product development. Candidates should have a rich background in machine learning and statistical algorithms, along with experience managing projects and teams. The position offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive workplace culture focused on diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data science, including team lead roles.
• Strong understanding of NLP and machine learning techniques.
• Experience managing teams of 2-5 members.

Responsibilities

• Work on data science projects involving NLP and machine learning.
• Develop data systems utilizing machine learning techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver products.
• Mentor junior data scientists and provide technical leadership.
• Estimate timelines and drive project delivery.

Skills

Statistical and machine learning algorithms

Expert knowledge in Python

Prompt engineering

Experience with large language models

Team management

Vector search / embeddings

Distributed search systems

Team leadership

Project leadership

Tools

Machine learning frameworks

Database technologies

Solr/OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Solr

Vector databases

Job description

BOLD is seeking for the newest addition to our existing Data Science team, you’ll combine your analytical skills and business knowledge to deliver key insights to our Product and Management teams. You’ll help drive product development using our vast user data sets to enhance our current products and to help us find inferences and relationships in this data to build new products – More towards the role required.

Job Description

ABOUT THIS TEAM

The Data Science department at BOLD is responsible for discovering patterns and trends in datasets to get insights, creating predictive algorithms and data models, improving the quality of data or product offerings by utilizing machine learning techniques, distributing suggestions to other teams and top management, and using data tools such as Python and SQL. The Data Science team actively collaborates with other vertical teams such as Engineering, Portals, BI, Product, Legal. Most of the projects are focused around problems that require a mix of natural language processing and machine learning. Some of the active projects are resume parsing, ranking, summary generation, data quality and scoring, content generation, job recommendations, and conversion analysis. Apart from the business initiatives, the team also explores state of the art methods and keeps them upto to date with technology.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Demonstrate ability to work on data science projects involving NLP, large language models, predictive modelling, statistical analysis, vector space modelling, machine learning etc.
• Leverage our rich data sets of user data to perform research, develop models and create data products with our Development & Product teams
• Develop novel and scalable data systems in cooperation with our system architects that leverage datasets using machine learning techniques to enhance the user experience
• Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements.
• Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.
• Runs review meetings effectively and drive the closure of all open issues on time.
• Evolve prompt engineering applications and benchmark different LargeLanguage models to solve business problems.
• Mentors/coaches data scientists to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them.
• Implement and experiment with agentic workflows to improve the job seeker experience.
• Rises above detail to see broader issues and implications for whole product/team.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Should be able to handle a team of 2-5 members, if required.
• Knowledge and experience using statistical and machine learning algorithms, including regression, instance-based learning, decision trees, Bayesian statistics, clustering, neural networks, deep learning, ensemble methods
• Expert knowledge in Python.
• Experience with frameworks that optimizes prompt engineering (langChain/crewai/etc)
• Practical LLM/RAG experience for search quality such as query understanding, semantic retrieval, reranker design .
• Experience with Solr/OpenSearch/Elasticsearch …
• Experience with embedding & vector search
• Experience in using large language models.
• Experience with distributed, semantic and vector based search and match systems.
• Experience with prompt engineering, chain-of-thought, retrieval augmented generation, vector databases and preferably LLM agents.
• Experience in feature selection, building and optimizing classifiers.
• Experience with software stack components, including common programming languages, back-end technologies, database modelling, continuous integration, services-oriented architecture, software testability, etc.
• Langchain and/or Llamaindex.
• Be a keen learner and enthusiastic about developing software.

EXPERIENCE-

• Project Lead, Data Science- 8 years+

BENEFITS

Outstanding Compensation

• Competitive salary
• Tax-friendly compensation structure
• Bi-annual bonus
• Annual Appraisal
• Equity in company

100% Full Health Benefits

• Group Mediclaim, personal accident, & term life insurance
• Group Mediclaim benefit (including parents' coverage)
• Online Health (OPD) Consultation Benefit
• Personal accident and term life insurance coverage

Flexible Time Away

• 24 days paid leaves
• Declared fixed holidays
• Paternity and maternity leave
• Compassionate and marriage leave
• Covid leave (up to 7 days)

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

• Internet and home office reimbursement
• In-office catered lunch, meals, and snacks
• Certification policy
• Cab pick-up and drop-off facility

About BOLD

As an established global organization, BOLD helps people find jobs. Our story is one of growth, success, and professional fulfillment. We create digital products that have empowered millions of people in 180 countries to build stronger resumes, cover letters, and CVs. The result of our work helps people interview confidently, finding the right job in less time. Our employees are experts, learners, contributors, and creatives.

We Celebrate And Promote Diversity And Inclusion

We value our position as an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire based on qualifications, merit, and our business needs. We don't discriminate regarding race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law.