Description de l'offre
Introduction to team
Our Expedia Product & Technology division builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A unified, singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.
The Machine Learning Scientist II role sits on the Pricing Machine Learning team in the Expedia Product & Technology division of Expedia Group. At the heart of the 3-side marketplace (the traveler, the property owners and the platform), this team develops and optimizes pricing models with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to power Expedia competitiveness for the multiple brands and lines of business in our portfolio.
In this role, your expertise and passion for innovation, developing cutting-edge technology and implementing industry-leading solutions, will improve the experience of millions of travelers and travel partners each year. This is an applied research role: your models will be deployed to our production systems and your results will be measured objectively via A/B testing, directly impacting our business results. We collaborate closely with the analytics, product, and engineering teams.
In this role, you will:
Work with product management to understand business problems, identify challenges and machine learning opportunities, and scope solutions.
Conduct exploratory data analyses, formulate machine learning problems, and build effective models.
Partner with data and software engineering teams to deliver your solutions into production.
Document the technical details of your work.
Present your ideas and results to product management, stakeholders, and leadership teams in a clear and effective manner.
Collaborate and brainstorm with other team members and across the company.
Profil recherché
You have a master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Engineering, or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
You have solid understanding of modern machine learning techniques, statistics, and hypothesis testing. Preferred: You have experience in pricing systems.
You have hands-on experience with data wrangling, feature engineering, model building, and visualization
You have expertise with Python and related machine learning tools, deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, CatBoost, XGBoost, etc… and SQL-like query languages for data extraction, transformation, and loading
Preferred: You have experience working with large data sets in a distributed computing environment such as Spark.
You have passion for solving interesting and impactful real-world problems using principled techniques and best practices.
We are travelers and technologists.
We work across time zones, hemispheres, cultures, and languages. We stay open and curious. We thrive on breaking things down and building them back up again until they're even better.
We know travel can be hard. But we also know it's worth it every time. Because we believe travel is a force for good, we take our roles seriously. We're here to build great products and create connections that truly bring good into the world.
Expedia Group is a place where everyone can feel safe and empowered. We’re incredibly proud of the open culture we’ve built, and we’re united behind the belief that travel is a force for good. The experiences we create bridge divides and broaden horizons – making the world a better, more open place.