Senior Data Scientist (Labs)

at  KAYAK

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car, cruise, or vacation package. We’re also transforming the in-travel experience with our app and new accommodation software. For more information, visit www.KAYAK.com.
As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK’s portfolio of metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Many employees are dedicated to one brand, but we all have the benefit of using each others strengths and insights. Together, we’re able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.

BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Exposure to software engineering, whether individual or team-based.
• Direct experience applying ML/AI in a business environment, and experience distilling high-level business challenges down to concrete modeling problems.
• Hands-on experience with data engineering principles and methods: ETLs, relational databases, large-scale data frameworks like (Py)Spark.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Design and implement your own solutions to modeling problems that will improve user experience, and optimize key metrics important to the business.
• Conduct experiments and engage in rapid-prototyping of ideas, making creative use of the data and resources at your disposal.
• Implement designs in a stable, maintainable, and scalable production-ready form.
• Extract, process and leverage large data sets to drive successful projects.
• Engage in group problem-solving, and collaborative team efforts.
• Communicate and share results in a clear and concise manner.