Data Scientist

About SEEK

At SEEK, we work with heart. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and
productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We make a positive impact on a
truly global scale and our world-class technology solutions connect more people to relevant
employment and education opportunities. The work we do impacts people’s lives when it
matters.

We value and celebrate the diversity of our employees who rise to the challenge to
contribute to the success of our organisation. It’s a fast-paced and supportive environment
where everyone is passionate about our common purpose and where our people can create
enriching and exciting careers. Our future potential is your opportunity.

‘Our SEEK’

At SEEK our biggest asset is our people, and we are proud of our community of valued,
talented and diverse individuals who really know their stuff. Our culture statement, Our
SEEK, is all about what makes SEEK unique and a little bit different. Our SEEK clearly outlines
the Principles and the Behaviours of our best people, which include:

• Passion: we are passionate about SEEK, our purpose, our customers and our community
• Team: we care about each other and collaborate to achieve together
• Delivery: we execute with excellence and achieve great results
• Future: we think and act for the long term

The Team

The Candidate Quality team consists of Data Scientists, AI Engineers, and Product
Managers, operating as a specialized unit within SEEK’s broader Artificial Intelligence &
Analytics division. We follow a quarterly planning cycle in pursuit of our mission: helping
hirers connect with quality candidates. Our work encompasses developing machine
learning models for candidate quality scoring, leveraging AI to enhance role requirements,
selection criteria, and candidate matching, and supporting candidate discovery.

The Role

As a Data Scientist at SEEK, you’ll be part of a fast-paced, supportive environment where
you can make a real difference. You’ll work on complex challenges that have a direct impact
on people’s lives, helping us evolve our business and reach new heights.

Successful performance in this role will be demonstrated through the business value
contributed by developed and supported products. Further, the successful candidate will
be expected to stay up to date with emerging techniques in natural language processing
and machine learning, and be deeply involved in a culture of continual improvement.

This role will report to a Senior Data Scientist / Principal Data Scientist within AIPS. AIPS has
a matrix structure where your direct line manager will act as a coach and technical mentor
but your day-to-day activity will be determined by the squad priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Forming clear data addressable problem statements related to candidate-job matching and  qualification identification
• Gathering, validating and understanding data relevant to job requirements and candidate qualifications
• Designing and building data transformation pipelines and machine learning algorithms to improve matching accuracy and relevance
• Working with product management and other business stakeholders to review and iterate data products to better serve both hirers and job seekers
• Developing models that can effectively identify and highlight relevant skills and qualifications from  unstructured text data
• Evangelising appropriate ML methods and explaining them, and their associated benefits and limitations to team members from Engineering and Strategy.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Post graduate qualification in a quantitative field (e.g. Physics, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science)
• Advanced data extraction and processing skills using SQL, Spark, etc
• Familiarity with S3, EC2 and/or EMR in AWS
• Deep knowledge of machine learning algorithms focused on classification, ranking and recommendation systems
• Experience with NLP, particularly information extraction and semantic similarity
• Able to write serviceable code (e.g. Python, Scala) and comfortable working with and around a professional software development team
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business key decision makers and product owners
• Ability to adapt quickly and thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment

Other Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Experience with Deep Learning (particularly Transformers and other modern NLP architectures)
• Experience with large language models and their application to information extraction
• Track record in working independently within an agile team environment, scoping work, making and keeping commitments to deliver against a shared agenda
• Experience working with datasets which do not fit within memory on a single machine
• Experience developing systems that operate at scale in production environments

Permanent Perks
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days, as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably, certified carbon neutral for its business operations (through Climate Active), purchasing renewable energy for our office and working-from-home emissions and a target for net zero by 2030. 

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.