Applied Scientist - Search/NLP/IR | Applied Scientist - Search/NLP/IR (All Genders)

Job Summary

This role is for an Applied Scientist to join Zalando's Search Team, focusing on enhancing customer discoverability and personalized search experiences. The successful candidate will leverage state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) methods, including transformer-based deep neural networks and large language models (LLMs), to build intelligent and scalable search systems. Day-to-day, the role involves researching, deploying, and architecting machine learning and deep learning solutions, collaborating with multiple teams to align with product strategy, and developing long-term research roadmaps. This position offers the opportunity to work with exceptional scientists and engineers, mentor junior scientists, and contribute to cutting-edge machine learning products that impact over 51 million customers, driving significant commercial impact.