Lead Data Scientist

🔥 12 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $160k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Hyatt

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10,000+ employees

👥 B2C

🛒 Retail

B2C • Retail • Hospitality

Hyatt is a global hospitality company that operates a range of hotels, resorts, and vacation properties. Known for its commitment to providing exceptional guest experiences, Hyatt offers various accommodation options, from luxury to more affordable stays. The company also focuses on sustainability and community engagement, ensuring responsible business practices in the hospitality sector.

📋 Description

• Own the design, development, evaluation, and optimization of AI and Machine Learning solutions that support Hyatt’s guest, colleague, and operational experiences. • Design, prototype, and productionize Generative AI solutions in NL Search, Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems. • Build and evaluate LLM-powered applications, including retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, embeddings, semantic search, and agentic or workflow-based AI systems. • Develop robust model evaluation frameworks, including offline metrics, human evaluation, guardrail testing, bias and safety checks, and business-impact measurement. • Partner with ML engineering and data engineering teams to deploy scalable real-time inference pipelines and batch processing workflows. • Mentor data scientists and ML practitioners through design reviews, code reviews, modeling best practices, and knowledge sharing. • Collaborate with ML engineering to productionize models and Gen AI services using AWS-native tools and modern MLOps practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related field. Ph.D preferred. • 6+ years of experience in machine learning roles focused on areas such as NLP/NLU, reinforcement learning or LLM applications, including 3+ years of people management experience in a tech leadership role. • Experience in fine-tuning and deploying LLMs or other Generative AI solutions to production. • Expertise in AWS cloud services (e.g., SageMaker, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Lambda, Glue). • Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in SQL, PySpark, and containerization (e.g., Docker). • Proven experience designing scalable data pipelines and ML systems for both real-time and batch inference. • Deep understanding of responsible AI practices, CI-CD pipelines, Agile development practices, and model lifecycle management. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a strong bias for action and collaboration. • Familiarity with ML observability and governance tools.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual allotment of free hotel stays at Hyatt hotels globally • Flexible work schedule • Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace subscription, and a discount at the on-site fitness center • A global family assistance policy with paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child as well as financial assistance for adoption • Paid Time Off, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match