Lead Data Scientist (P3764)
Core
Lead technical strategy and development of search and recommender systems to power personalized customer experiences in grocery retail.
Role type
Senior IC Lead Data Scientist (Search & Recommender Systems)
Builds
Scalable search and recommendation engines for Kroger's e-commerce ecosystem
Domain
Grocery retail, e-commerce, personalization
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied machine learning, search and recommendation systems, system design at scale, Python, SQL, distributed computing (Spark), statistics, A/B testing, LLM and agent-based systems, model serving and deployment, cloud platforms (GCP/Azure), technical leadership, mentoring
Preferred skills
Retail or e-commerce domain experience
Technologies
Python, SQL, Spark, GCP, Azure, Generative AI, RAG
Responsibilities
Define and evolve science strategy for content discovery and personalization; design and build innovative search/recommender systems; establish rigorous evaluation methodologies and experimentation frameworks; partner with engineering to deploy production-ready ML systems; mentor data scientists and lead technical reviews.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
