Senior Applied Scientist

Summary

Join Coveo as a Senior Applied Scientist and play a key role in developing cutting-edge machine learning technologies for our commerce products. You will lead the design and optimization of ML solutions, including product recommendations and generative answering, and develop novel approaches using multimodal AI. This role requires strong technical leadership skills to guide our AI vision and mentor team members. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to translate business objectives into technical requirements and ensure the quality and efficiency of our ML lifecycle. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in applied research, deep learning, and large language models, along with a proven ability to build and deploy production-grade code. This is a hybrid/remote position.

Requirements

• 7+ years of applied research industry experience building and improving real-world solutions based on modern ML techniques, including Deep Learning and Large Language Models, at a non-trivial scale, along with a PhD or MSc in a relevant discipline (ML, CS, Math, Physics)
• Proven ability to explore and design models, systems and solutions taking into account real-world constraints and user experience, and implement them via production-grade code that is systematically evaluated, well-tested and easy to maintain
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, collaborating with other scientists and developers on a daily basis throughout the development lifecycle

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and optimization of existing and new ML solutions in Commerce including Product Recommendations, Generative Answering and Personalized Suggestions
• Develop novel approaches to extract, generate, and validate product attributes using multimodal AI, combining text, image, and structured data analysis
• Initiate and facilitate the adoption and utilization of resources and guidelines to improve quality and operational efficiency of the scientific ML lifecycle
• Work with Product Managers to define scope, determine feasibility, and translate business objectives into technical requirements
• Engage with your community of peers to challenge the status quo, improve our shared ways of working, and influence overall architecture decisions, continuing to foster our culture of Applied Science excellence
• Be a mentor to your teammates: Help them hone their skills and support their development as applied scientists

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a technical leadership role: Mentoring and coaching, hiring, vision and roadmap design, scientific project planning and management, etc
• Experience in experimentation and measurement of product user engagement and business impact preferably in a transactional domain i.e. commerce
• Work and Research experience (including Publications) into particularly relevant areas to Coveo business: Ranking and Recommendations, Information Retrieval and Neural Search (including Semantic Search and Question-Answering) and Information Extraction
• International Work Experience: You lived through the challenges of cultural differences and it rewarded you with a more open-minded approach to communication and collaboration

Benefits

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