Associate Data Scientist

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SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

Job Description

The Role

We are looking for a multifaceted and talented individual to join our team as an Associate Data Scientist. You will be a mixture of a Data Scientist, Researcher, and a Machine Learning Engineer, working with and learning from a cross functional squad of Product Managers, Data Scientists and Engineers. Successful performance in this role will be demonstrated through helping develop and deploy AI solutions which will support SEEK products such as Recommendations and Search Engines. We are looking for someone who is passionate about understanding human behavior for building and improving internet-scale products informed by data.

Key Responsibilities

• Gathering, validating and understanding data to explore and tackle business problems.
• Help research, build, deploy and maintain Recommendations AI solutions coordinated with recruitment products striving to accurately connect candidates to recruiters.
• Participating in building models to improve the chances of matching (job placements) to demonstrate our AI platform to the next level.
• Collaborate with team members across Strategy, Product, Data Science and Software Development teams to address a variety of ambitious business problems.
• Participate in the formulation, development, deployment, and testing of new solutions.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms, model tuning, data science concepts.
• Ability to perform data exploratory analysis.
• Good data extraction and processing skills using SQL, Python.
• Able to write serviceable code (e.g. Scala, Go, Python, Spark).
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Other Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• A post-graduate qualification in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science)
• Ability to adapt quickly and manage an environment of rapid change and development.

Knowledge in:

• Recommender Systems
• Data Mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Optimization

Additional Information

The Team

The Artificial Intelligence Platform Services (AIPS) is structured into cross-disciplinary squads with members from Data Science, Strategy and Engineering who work together to research, design, build and support end-to-end machine learning based products delivering direct value to hirers and job seekers.

Why SEEK

• This is a permanent role.
• We are a collaborative and mature work culture.
• Hybrid work mode.
• Extensive employee benefits.

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.