Senior Data Scientist

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you'll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it's where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere. We're looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific's largest tech companies, you'll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Data Scientist at SEEK, you'll be part of a fast-paced, supportive environment where you can make a real difference. You'll work on complex challenges that have a direct impact on people's lives, helping us evolve our business and reach new heights.

You will report a Data Science Lead and work alongside other highly motivated Data Scientists in the Generative AI team. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and others across multiple teams to design and develop Generative AI solutions for both internal and external (customer-facing) use cases.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will be expected to:

• • Research, propose, and implement new AI solutions (and evolve existing ones) to improve a product or business outcome.
• Compile and develop datasets as appropriate to train or evaluate AI systems.
• Perform offline evaluation of AI systems and contribute to the design of online experiments.
• Evangelise appropriate AI methods and explain their benefits and limitations to various audiences, acting as a technical reference within the business on topics related to AI.
• Break down problems and projects, estimate and prioritise activities, and propose alternatives to overcome obstacles.
• Work together with Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to build relationships within the organisation based on trust.
• Mentor junior Data Scientists and share technical expertise with the DS team.

The Team

Situated within the larger Artificial Intelligence & Analytics team at SEEK, the Generative AI team is a practice team focusing on GenAI. The GenAI team has two streams of work. The Applications stream partners with SEEK product owners and may embed Data Scientists into the team to develop and test opportunities to build GenAI-based services. The Capabilities stream builds early-stage prototypes to test the latest GenAI technology, and also develops core functionality into platform capabilities to enable sustainable scaling of GenAI services.

We work on a quarterly planning cycle to develop our roadmap, which consists of internal R&D projects as well as partnerships with internal product teams, where we act as specialist consultants. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will work autonomously to deliver one or more initiatives for the team. The team runs various team rituals such as weekly stand-ups and knowledge sharing sessions, monthly team retrospectives, and others as needed. You will also attend project-related meetings as necessary.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent experience
• Professional experience developing AI/ML solutions, with deep understanding of model building, training, evaluation, and optimisation
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to explain complex ideas simply
• Ability to adapt quickly and thrive in a rapidly changing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading AI/ML projects and managing multiple stakeholders
• Deep technical knowledge of Generative AI foundations, including deep learning, transformers, and related technologies
• Hands-on experience training and adapting large language models, and building solutions using techniques such as prompt engineering and RAG

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days  as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.