[Remote] Data Scientist, Search Science (Ads)

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Shipt is a retail tech company that connects people to reliable, high-quality delivery with a personal touch. As a Data Scientist on the Search Science team, you will focus on improving sponsored search capabilities to help grow ad revenue and contribute to a unified ranking system.


Responsibilities

  • Help improve the relevance and ranking of sponsored products to increase ad revenue while maintaining a great customer experience
  • Analyze performance data and identify opportunities to improve sponsored product placement
  • Conduct data analysis to identify areas for improvement across search and ads
  • Build dashboards, run exploratory analyses, and present insights to stakeholders to inform product and strategy decisions
  • Contribute to models that balance organic relevance with ad monetization
  • Help implement and test ranking improvements using established ML techniques
  • Help integrate user signals (purchase history, preferences) into search to improve sponsored relevance for individual customers
  • Support the development of retrieval systems that surface the right products, including work with both traditional (lexical) and newer (vector-based) approaches
  • Help build evaluation pipelines and run A/B tests to measure the impact of model changes

Skills

  • Degree in a STEM field (Computer Science, Statistics, etc.) with coursework or projects in machine learning
  • 1–3 years of experience applying data science or machine learning to real-world problems (internships count)
  • Strong coding skills in Python and SQL
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow) and their application to ranking, recommendations, or NLP
  • Understanding of ranking concepts and experience with feature engineering
  • Comfort working with large datasets and drawing actionable insights from data
  • Machine Learning Algorithms
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Python (Programming Language)
  • Statistical Machine Learning
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Benefits

  • Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
  • Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
  • Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays throughout the calendar year and paid sick leave.
  • Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

Company Overview

  • Shipt is a grocery delivery service that lets members order groceries and alcohol from their local store for delivery right to their door. It is a sub-organization of Target. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.shipt.com.

    • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Shipt has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 40 in 2025, 66 in 2024, 46 in 2023, 83 in 2022, 78 in 2021, 40 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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