Senior data Scientist

About SEEK

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

The Role

The Data Scientist role is based in Malaysia within Artificial Intelligence Platform Services team (described at Team section). You will be a mixture of a Data Scientist, Researcher, and a Machine Learning Engineer.  Successful performance in this role will be demonstrated through developing and deploying AI solutions which will support SEEK products such as Recommendations and Search Engines. Further, the successful candidate will be expected to stay up to date with emerging techniques in natural language processing and machine learning, and be deeply involved in a culture of continual improvement and collaboration. We are looking for someone who is passionate about understanding human behavior for building and improving internet-scale products informed by data.

Key Responsibilities

• Forming clear data addressable problem statements from current business problems
• Research, build, deploy and maintain RecommendationsAI solutions integrated with recruitment products aiming to properly connect candidates to recruiters
• Improve the chances of matching (job placements) to leverage our AI platform to the next level
• Collaborate with Strategy, Product, Data Science and Software Development teams to address a variety of challenging business problems
• Lead the formulation, development, deployment, and testing of new solutions
• Explore new methodologies and technologies to address R&D problems in a truly collaborative way

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor, MSc or PhD qualification in Computer Science, Computational Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field
• Professional experience in one of the following programming languages:
  • Large scale development using Python, Go, C/C++, or Java
• Ability to perform data exploratory analysis for proof of concepts and to communicate the results to a diverse audience
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Other Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Strong background in:
  • Algorithms and data structures
  • Information Retrieval
  • Machine Learning
• Practice with
  • Search engine such as Elasticsearch or SOLR;
  • Relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL;
  • Amazon Web Services (e.g. EC2, ELB, S3, VPC, Route 53);
  • Distributed processing framework such as Hadoop or Spark;
  • Container package such as Docker;
• Knowledge in:
  • Recommender Systems
  • Data Mining
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Optimization
  • Deep Learning
  • Ability to adapt quickly and manage an environment of rapid change and development

The Team

The Artificial Intelligence Platform Services (AIPS) is structured into cross-disciplinary squad with members from Data Science, Strategy and Engineering who work together to research, design, build and support end-to-end machine learning based products delivering direct value to hirers and job seekers.

Job Posting Tips:

• Mature and collaborative work culture and environment
• Hybrid work mode
• Extended employee benefits

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.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.