About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

A role with Target Data Science & Engineering means the chance to help develop and manage state of the art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions at scale. Whether you join our Statistics, Optimization or Machine Learning teams, you’ll be challenged to harness Target’s impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in in Marketing, Supply Chain Optimization, Network Security and Personalization rely on

Team Overview

As a Data Scientist, you’ll Influence by interacting within the Data Sciences team, perform within the scale and scope of your role by implementing solutions, and contribute to Data Sciences’ and Target’s culture by modeling the culture. Through your understanding of the foundations and working principles of machine learning algorithms, linear algebra, probability theory, statistics, and optimization theory, you will perform data exploration and analysis (look at distributions, find anomalies, create simple visualizations, etc.) and implement algorithmic solution given specifications, while adhering to best practices in model development. We will look to you to understand and actively follow foundational programming principles (best practices, know about unit tests, code organization, basics of CI/CD etc.) and create a well-maintainable & tested codebase with relevant documentation. You will get the opportunity to develop in one or more approved programming languages (Java, Scala, Python, R), and learn and adhere to best practices in data analysis and data understanding. 

As you follow agile processes, you will implement prototypes for individual components of software or data science solutions and understand and leverage basic data structures and algorithms in implementing solutions. Leverage your high-level understanding in business domain to gain knowledge of high-level Target business priorities, strategic goals and their impact, as well as details of the specific business sub-problem you are focused on. You will collaborate with peers on their product and document and present work to peers and participate in code reviews and gain broader understanding of different components within the application. The exciting part of retail? It’s always changing!  

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. 

About you: 

• 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and 2+ years of professional experience or equivalent industry experience   

• Master’s degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)  

• Strong analytical thinking skills. Ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches where required  

• Hands-on programming skills in Python, SQL, Hadoop/Hive, Spark. Additional knowledge of Scala, R, Java, Kotlin desired but not mandatory 

• Experience in classification algorithms (binary & multiclass), regression, clustering (numeric & text similarity) and PCA 

• Experience in working on NLP Models, word embeddings etc. 

• Knowledge on using LLMs, prompt engineering and RAG techniques is desired but not mandatory 

• Able to produce reasonable documents/narrative suggesting actionable insights  

• Excellent communication skills. Ability to clearly tell data driven stories through appropriate visualizations, graphs, and narratives  

• Self-driven and results oriented; able to meet tight timelines   

• Strong team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/time zones 

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