Senior Machine Learning Scientist Viator

About Viator
Viator a Tripadvisor company is the leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 300000 travel experiences to exploreeverything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and all the niche interesting stuff in between)making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. With industry leading flexibility and lastminute availability its never too late to make any day extraordinary. Viator. One app 300000 travel experiences youll remember.

Perks of Working at Viator

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data) including base salary annual bonus and equity.
• Work your way with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Viator takes a remotefriendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team with the option to join onsite as often as youd like.
• Flexible schedule. Worklife balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel wellness or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. Were here for you with resources and programs to help you through lifes challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.

Tripadvisor is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Scientist on our Viator brand home to over 300K bookable experiences worldwide. Our 12 strong team works across some of the most
exciting problems in ecommerce and travel including:

• Sort & Ranking
• User Recommendations
• Product Understanding
• Pricing
• User Acquisition & Retention
• Online Advertising

Working across the Viator brand you will work at the cutting edge of the following disciplines:

• Deep Learning
• Bayesian Modeling
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Product embeddings
• Recommender Systems
• Computer Vision

At Viator we understand that Machine Learning is a broad and evolving field. Whether you are a seasoned expert in Deep Learning or have a wider range of expertise across multiple areas
within the Viator team you will be encouraged to find your niche to make an impact on our travellers. You will deploy your solutions online and observe your works impact in realtime via
A/B tests as you help the company grow. You should expect to work closely with a cross disciplinary team to develop test and deploy models into production regularly.

What you will bring to the team:

• A postgraduate degree in Machine Learning / AI or a related discipline OR demonstrable experience with the data science lifecycle i.e. from problem definition to model deployment and beyond (monitoring and improvement).

• Proficiency in Python for numerical/statistical programming (including Numpy Pandas and Scikitlearn).

• An understanding of MLOps and best practices around experimentation deployment and monitoring. You should be familiar with concepts such as data versioning model versioning model monitoring and CI/CD for DS&ML

• A flair for business understanding with the ability to communicate effectively with audiences of various backgrounds levels and functions.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates.