Data Scientist II

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce • Marketing Tech • Software • Analytics
We are building the operating system for brands to win in E-commerce.
The Role
Develop and deploy classical machine learning models for business problems such as forecasting, churn, fraud, pricing, segmentation, and sales prediction. Responsibilities include feature engineering, statistical analysis, model evaluation, interpretability, data quality management, productionization, monitoring, and retraining. The role collaborates with product, engineering, business, and analytics teams to translate business needs into scalable ML solutions and may mentor junior data scientists or analysts.
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The Company

CommerceIQ is building the AI platform that runs commerce for the world's largest brands. We are not selling AI demos. We are shipping AI agents for content, media, and sales into the workflows of the Fortune 100 every week.

                                                                          
2,200+
          
Customers
                  
10 of Top 12
          
CPG Companies
                  
900+
          
Retailers Connected
                  
$200M+
          
Raised
        

Customers include Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, Mondelez, Samsung, and Kellogg's. Backed by SoftBank, Insight Partners, and Madrona. Headquartered in Mountain View with teams across the US, India, Canada, and the UK. Pre-IPO.

Technical Expertise
  • Strong background in machine learning, statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and feature engineering, with hands-on experience developing and deploying classical ML models.
  • Strong proficiency in classical machine learning algorithms including Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naive Bayes, K-Means, and DBSCAN.
  • Experience with feature engineering, feature selection, dimensionality reduction, hyperparameter optimization, cross-validation, model calibration, and model evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, with experience using libraries such as XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, and Statsmodels.
  • Experience working with large datasets and data pipelines, including data preprocessing, data quality checks, transformation, aggregation, and feature generation using tools such as SQL, Spark/PySpark, and cloud data platforms.
  • Strong understanding of statistical methods and model diagnostics, including hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, correlation analysis, distribution analysis, and statistical significance.
  • Experience with model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and productionization of classical machine learning models.
Applied Problem-Solving
  • Mandatory skill — Demonstrated experience building and deploying classical machine learning models for real-world business problems such as customer churn, credit risk, fraud detection, demand forecasting, customer segmentation, recommendation systems, pricing, propensity modeling, or sales prediction.
  • Mandatory skill — Strong ability to design, evaluate, and improve ML models using robust validation strategies, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, feature engineering, and model comparison.
  • Experience selecting appropriate algorithms based on business objectives, data characteristics, interpretability requirements, and model performance.
  • Strong understanding of model evaluation metrics such as ROC-AUC, PR-AUC, Precision, Recall, F1, Log Loss, RMSE, MAE, MAPE/WMAPE, Gini, KS, R², and other domain-specific metrics.
  • Experience with model interpretability and explainability, using techniques such as SHAP, Partial Dependence Plots (PDP), feature importance, permutation importance, and coefficient analysis.
  • Experience identifying and addressing data quality issues, class imbalance, overfitting, multicollinearity, feature leakage, model bias, distribution shift, and model drift.
  • Experience applying statistical and machine learning techniques to NLP, time-series forecasting, classification, regression, clustering, recommendation, or optimization problems.
Leadership & Collaboration
  • Preferred: Proven ability to mentor junior data scientists or analysts, provide technical guidance, and establish best practices for machine learning development.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with product, engineering, business, and analytics stakeholders to translate business problems into measurable ML solutions.
  • Ability to communicate model assumptions, methodology, results, limitations, and business impact to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to translate analytical findings into practical, scalable, and measurable business solutions.
Education & Experience
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in classical machine learning, data science, predictive modeling, or statistical modeling.
  • Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work with structured and unstructured datasets.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex analytical and statistical concepts clearly.
  • Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals, statistics, probability, and optimization.
  • Continuous learner with awareness of classical machine learning techniques, statistical modeling methodologies, model interpretability, and emerging best practices in applied data science.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law. 

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in classical machine learning, data science, predictive modeling, or statistical modeling
  • Strong background in machine learning, statistical modeling, predictive analytics, and feature engineering
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying classical machine learning models
  • Proficiency in Python, Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn
  • Experience with XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, and Statsmodels
  • Experience with large datasets and data pipelines using SQL, Spark or PySpark, and cloud data platforms
  • Strong understanding of statistical methods, model diagnostics, machine learning fundamentals, statistics, probability, and optimization
  • Experience with feature engineering, feature selection, dimensionality reduction, hyperparameter optimization, cross-validation, model calibration, and model evaluation
  • Experience selecting, evaluating, comparing, and improving ML models using robust validation strategies
  • Experience with model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and productionization
  • Experience addressing data quality issues, class imbalance, overfitting, multicollinearity, feature leakage, model bias, distribution shift, and model drift
  • Experience applying statistical and machine learning techniques to NLP, time-series forecasting, classification, regression, clustering, recommendation, or optimization problems
  • Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and explain complex analytical and statistical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Proven ability to mentor junior data scientists or analysts and establish machine learning best practices
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The Company
HQ: Mountain View, CA
360 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

CommerceIQ is the leader in E-commerce Channel Optimization (ECO), the practice of using machine learning, analytics and automations to optimize the e-commerce channel across supply chain, marketing and sales operations to win at the moment of purchase and drive profitable market share growth.

Why Work With Us

CommerceIQ is building innovative products in a hot market, in a pre-IPO company with a bold vision, and with passionate colleagues who are collectively building a company for the long run. We have developed a culture to support our growth and deliver a unique employee experience with market competitive pay and exceptional benefits.

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