Senior Data Scientist, Search & Recommendations Platform

GoTo Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GoTo Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Search & Recommendation platform. You will design and deploy advanced ranking, retrieval, and monetisation models powering GoFood and GoPay across Southeast Asia and beyond.

You will work with teams across Singapore, China, Indonesia and India to launch foundational capabilities and drive measurable business impact. You will build embeddings, personalised rankings, and multi-task models that leverage real-time signals, promotions, and stock

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in CS/ML/NLP/CV.
• Hands-on experience building large-scale ranking or recommendation systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or Java.
• Familiarity with LLMs/LLVMs in search or recommendation modeling.
• Excellent English communication; Bahasa Indonesia would be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimise hybrid lexical-semantic retrieval pipelines to improve precision and recall.
• Build high-quality embeddings and relevance signals for user intent, cuisine and dish semantics.
• Develop multi-task deep ranking models balancing conversion, diversity and retention.
• Create personalised ranking layers leveraging historical orders and context features.
• Engineer recommendation algorithms using collaborative filtering and graph methods.
• Leverage multi-modal data and knowledge graphs to enhance retrieval and ranking.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

Machine Learning

NLP

Education

Master's degree or higher in CS/ML/NLP/CV

Tools

LLMs

LLVMs

Job description

GoTo Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for its Search & Recommendation platform. You will design and deploy advanced ranking, retrieval, and monetisation models powering GoFood and GoPay across Southeast Asia and beyond.

You will work with teams across Singapore, China, Indonesia and India to launch foundational capabilities and drive measurable business impact. You will build embeddings, personalised rankings, and multi-task models that leverage real-time signals, promotions, and stock