Principal Data Scientist - Consumer

About the role

As Principal Data Scientist, Consumer, you will be the technical lead for how Gopuff personalizes the shopping experience. You will design and ship the recommendation, ranking, and personalization models behind search, browse, carts, and marketing, and you will lead our work on agentic AI experiences for consumers. You will set technical direction, mentor data scientists, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own consumer personalization end to end.
• Define the modeling strategy for recommendations, ranking, and personalization across the home feed, search, product pages, cart, and CRM.
• Build recommenders and rankers.
• Lead agentic AI for consumers.
• Blend classic ML and LLMs.
• Run rigorous experiments.
• Ship to production.
• Set the bar.

Required skills

• Machine Learning
• Recommendation systems
• Ranking systems
• Personalization
• Agentic AI
• LLMs
• Python
• SQL
• Snowflake
• A/B testing
• Statistical inference

Nice to have

• Databricks
• Spark
• MLflow
• E-commerce
• Reinforcement learning
• dbt
• Airflow

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data science or machine learning
• 8+ years of experience with a PhD in a quantitative field

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• HSA or FSA eligibility
• Long and Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Fitness Reimbursement Program
• 25% employee discount
• Flexible PTO
• Group Life Insurance

About the Company

Gopuff delivers everyday essentials in minutes from our own network of micro-fulfillment centers. We are assembling a team of motivated people to help us drive forward that vision to bring a new age of convenience and predictability to an unpredictable world.