Senior Data Scientist

Overview

Role: Senior Data Scientist

Function: Data Science

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time

Industry: Travel Technology

About Company

An AI-powered travel technology company connecting 500+ airlines and 1 million hotels through an intelligent marketplace. The company serves 125 million global travelers with AI assistant Abhi, processing 50+ million daily searches.

A well-funded revenue-stage company with 1,300 employees operating across a network of 65,000 travel agents and influencers. The company is redefining travel technology and creating opportunities for ownership in the rapidly evolving AI-first travel industry.

Position Overview

You'll lead end-to-end data science initiatives that directly impact millions of travelers through AI-powered travel technology. You'll translate complex business problems into scalable ML solutions, working closely with product, engineering, and business teams. You'll build production-ready systems that drive measurable business outcomes in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment with cutting-edge ML technologies.

Role & Responsibilities

• Own and lead complete data science projects from problem formulation to production deployment and monitoring
• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for prediction, forecasting, classification, and recommendation systems
• Build and optimize feature engineering pipelines working with structured and unstructured datasets at scale
• Collaborate with data engineers to create scalable ML pipelines using MLOps best practices
• Deploy models to production environments and establish monitoring frameworks with performance metrics
• Conduct advanced exploratory data analysis and communicate insights through dashboards and presentations
• Mentor junior data scientists and document methodologies for knowledge sharing across teams

Must Have Criteria

• 5-8 years of hands-on experience in Data Science or Machine Learning with production deployments
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field
• Experience working with large-scale datasets (100K+ records) and building models for high-volume systems
• Strong proficiency in Python (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy) and SQL for data manipulation and analysis
• Proven experience with machine learning frameworks (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost)
• Experience building and deploying ML models in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Hands-on experience with MLOps tools and practices including experiment tracking and model monitoring

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with recommendation systems or dynamic pricing models
• Experience with Apache Spark (PySpark) and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow
• Background in NLP and working with large language models or transformers
• Experience mentoring junior team members and leading cross-functional data science initiatives

What We Offer

• Opportunity to impact millions of travelers through AI-powered travel technology
• Work with cutting-edge ML technologies in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
• Collaborate with strong technical teams and gain ownership of high-impact projects
• Competitive compensation package with growth opportunities in a well-funded company
• Be part of redefining the travel industry with innovative AI-first solutions