Data Scientist

Company Description

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 multi-national tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges for our customers 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 multi-lingual 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 and courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

The Team

The AIPS team is structured into small, cross-disciplinary, autonomous teams of 8-20 people who research, design, develop and support ML data driven products to support the business needs of one or more of SEEK’s 18 global business units.

About the role

The Data Scientist role is hybrid (mix of remote and in office), with an office in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia within the Artificial Intelligence Platform Services (AIPS) team. The team is structured into cross-disciplinary squad 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.

Successful performance in this role will be demonstrated through the business value contributed by developed and supported products. Further, the successful candidate will be expected to stay up to date with emerging techniques in natural language processing and machine learning, and be deeply involved in a culture of continual improvement.

This role will report to a Senior Data Scientist / Principal Data Scientist within AIPS. AIPS has a matrix structure where your direct line manager will act as a coach and technical mentor but your day-to-day activity will be determined by the squad priorities.

Responsibilities

• Forming clear data addressable problem statements from current business problems
• Gathering, validating and understanding data relevant to the problem statement
• Designing and building data transformation pipelines and machine learning algorithms to solve the business problem
• Working with product management and other business stakeholders to review and iterate data products to fit emerging market trends
• Evangelising appropriate ML methods and explaining them, and their associated benefits and limitations to team members from Engineering and Strategy.

Qualifications

Essential Experience, Skills and Competencies

• Graduate qualification in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science)
• Advanced data extraction and processing skills using SQL, Spark, etc
• Deep knowledge of machine learning algorithms and efficient data structures, ensembling and model performance tuning
• Experience with Natural Language Processing
• Able to write serviceable code (e.g. Scala, Go, Python, Ruby) and comfortable working with and around a professional software development teams
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adapt quickly and thrive in an environment of rapid change and ambiguity

Desirable Experience, Skills and Competencies

• Familiarity with S3, EC2 and/or EMR in AWS.
• Experience with Deep Learning (particularly CNNs and RNNs)
• Track record in working independently within an agile team environment, scoping work, making and keeping commitments to deliver against a shared agenda
• Experience working with datasets which do not fit within memory on a single machine
• Experience using foundation language models (such as ChatGPT or Claude) to label data and evaluate correctness of model outputs

Additional Information

Perks and benefits

• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
• A commitment to operating sustainably, a certified carbon neutral business operation, with the target of 100% renewable energy by 2025, and net zero by 2030
• Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia

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.