Data Scientist - Search

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation.

Life at SEEK

SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK, which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued.

Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting.

Job Description

About the Role

Join SEEK's Search team within the AIPS group and help develop AI systems that transform the job search experience. As a Data Scientist, you'll work with a diverse team of experts to solve complex challenges and drive meaningful outcomes in search and recommendations for job seekers across SEEK's global platforms.

You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists to design and implement intelligent matching systems that connect the right candidates with the right opportunities. If you thrive on solving ambiguous problems and enjoy working with smart, motivated peers, this is the role for you.

The Team

You'll join the Search team within SEEK's AIPS group, working alongside data scientists, software engineers, and product managers who are part of the larger Artificial Intelligence & Analytics organization. The team operates on quarterly planning cycles and maintains a collaborative culture through weekly stand-ups, knowledge sharing sessions, monthly retrospectives, and project-specific meetings.

What You'll Do

Business Impact & Collaboration

• Collaborate with AI Product Managers, Software Engineers and fellow Data Scientists to solve business challenges and align projects with strategic goals
• Design, develop, and test new solutions that improve the job search experience for millions of users
• Work within quarterly planning cycles to develop roadmaps focused on R&D for optimal job matching

Model Development & Innovation

• Create and enhance models to improve candidate/job matching for search and recommendations
• Perform feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning to optimize model performance
• Contribute to the design and implementation of search systems that operate at global scale

Performance & Validation

• Ensure models meet business objectives through comprehensive online and offline testing, including A/B tests
• Perform offline evaluation of search systems and contribute to online experiment design
• Implement ongoing monitoring to maintain model performance and identify improvement opportunities

Data-Driven Insights

• Collect, validate, and analyze data to identify challenges and opportunities for improving search and recommendation capabilities
• Translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for product and engineering teams
• Support evidence-based decision making across the Search team

Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, and data analysis
• A Masters or PhD qualification in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other quantitative field 
• Experience with model development, feature engineering, and performance optimization
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in data science (Python, R, SQL)
• Understanding of search systems, recommendation engines, or related AI/ML applications
• Experience with A/B testing and experimental design

Additional Information

At SEEK we offer:

• 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.