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Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture!
At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world's favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.
We're part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where "respect", "ownership", "growth" and "better together" values thrive.
If you're passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.
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What You Will Do
As a Data Scientist, you will be part of the Data Enlightenment team (including Data Scientist, Software Engineers and Product Managers) having the mission to empower TheFork with a strong data foundation and culture, leveraging Data Science and AI, leading to disruptive marketplace innovations.
You will report to the Data Science Manager and be part of a team of 3 other Data scientists.
As a key player of the Data Science team, you will be onboarded within one product team to help them accelerate their strategy and related projects thanks to Data Science/ML/IA.
You will have the opportunity to work on TheFork B2C (website/app) and B2B (TheFork Manager) products. You will develop a deep understanding of TheFork value proposition for B2C/B2B customers in order to deliver best in class data / AI components.
As Data Enlightenment team is also responsible for driving the construction of the AI/ML platform, you'll be involved in ML ops activities, working closely with Data Ops, ML Ops and other technical stakeholders involved in the definition of the components, tools and processes required to deliver AI/ML products in production.
Example Of Projects You Could Be Involved In
Data Science / AI&ML
Build recommendations algorithms to be integrated on our app / website
Improve the way restaurants are ranked in our search engine
Build an agent to automatically classify restaurants based on reviews, images, menus and other source of data
Leverage GenAI to generate restaurant description from reviews
ML ops
Build a dashboard to properly monitor costs of AI/ML projects
Automate the release of ML models in production and manage efficiently their lifecycle
Monitor the performance of GenAI and ML systems
The Expected Outcomes Of Your Role Are
High business value for projects deployed in production
Build with your product team impactful projects around personalization, search, product content, forecasting, GenAI... to be delivered in production
You'll work closely with product managers, software engineers, ops and other data stakeholders in order to deliver well shaped, monitored and actionable projects for B2C/B2B end users.
Scalable and performant assets
All the assets produced to deliver these projects should be scalable, performant and cost efficient. Anyone in the team could be onboarded quickly and maintenance costs should be low
Bring the Data Enlightenment team to the next level
Data Enlightenment team upskilled around Deep Learning and at least one of the following application fields : Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Ranking, NLP, Search, Recommendation...
AI/ML technical stack improved in order to support the team growth and new projects requirements
Who You Are
You have a Master's Degree of an Engineering School with a specialization in mathematics, computer science or Data Science / a PhD in mathematics, physics or computer science
You have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Scientist or ML Engineer
You have experience related to integration of AI / Machine Learning in a B2C/B2B product used by millions of customers (like marketplaces)
You have excellent analytical skills, involving data analysis and modeling, you are able to modelize complex problems, find the best insights in large datasets and summarize findings in a clear and actionable way
You have knowledge and industry experience in Deep Learning and at least one of the following topics : Computer Vision, Ranking, NLP, Search, Recommendation
You have excellent coding skills in Python and SQL in order to develop POCs then work on their industrialization and integration in the product with Product & Engineering teams
Expertise about Data Science industrialization (ML Engineering)
Your English is professional
The position is based in Paris
You can impress with these additions
Experience in building an AI/ML platform (ML ops) would be particularly appreciated
Experience with AWS is a nice to have
You are working in an autonomous, proactive and accountable way: you don't wait to be told what to do.
You demonstrate an obsession towards excellence: you systematically consider that good is not enough and constantly consider how to improve and reach the next level of quality, performance and impact
You play agile and fast: de
About the Company
TheFork is the leading online restaurant booking platform in Europe. With more than 40 million downloads of its app, 20 million reviews posted by our active community and more than 20 million monthly visits, TheFork has become the essential platform for foodies to discover restaurants and book a table!
TheFork was acquired by the TripAdvisor group in May 2014, and has more than 55,000 restaurants across 11 countries.
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