Senior Data Scientist

Get to Know the Team

As an engineer at Grab, you'll help shape the heart and soul of the company. Our team's mission is to create amazing services and tools that impact hundreds of millions of consumers, driving partners, and fellow Grabbers every day.

The applications we develop are core to our business. Your contributions will touch millions of lives, and you'll be recognised when you exceed our high expectations. You'll work in an international team of experienced developers who prioritise quality and new ideas. In our agile, test-driven development environment, you'll not only build new features and platforms but also evaluate the latest in mobile technology.

We're constantly improving our food delivery and supermarket platforms, handling tens of millions of bookings daily. New code reaches hundreds of millions of users quickly. You'll enhance features for our consumer and delivery-partner facing app, focusing on Deliveries, but we'll always welcome your fresh ideas. You'll work on one of the largest codebases in Southeast Asia, making an impact.

Get to Know the Role

As Senior Data Scientist, you will build models and services that manage millions of requests daily and develop predictive models to improve dispatch decisions according to market conditions. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager. This role is based onsite in Singapore.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and fine-tune the systems using machine learning algorithms based on the product requirement. You will choose appropriate algorithms, preparing and cleaning data, training and testing models, and optimising their performance.
• Design and implement A/B test. Generating training datasets for ML models and collecting feedback from the A/B experiments.
• Lead the CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Develop data related APIs for application integration.
• Collaborate with other team members and engineers.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• At least 3 years of industrial data science experience, with expertise in machine learning and statistical modelling.
• Programming skills in languages such as Python, Java and R.
• Experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorchetc.
• The knows how to and loves to build recommendation models
• The ability to write production ready code
• Experience with statistical concepts and machine learning algorithms.
• Experience with data wrangling, cleaning, and analysis.