Senior Data Scientist (Geo Search)

inDrive
Cyprus
Workplace: HybridFull timeEUR 70,700+ annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Cross-team collaboration"]

Own ranking, relevance, and recommendation for geo search, including training-data creation and production model stewardship. Build label pipelines from search sessions and completed rides, measure impact with offline replay and online A/B tests, and deliver models that return within tens of milliseconds per keystroke. Work cross-functionally across backend, ML, mobile, and QA to improve place search, autocomplete, geocoding, and personalization for cities with limited map data.

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inDrive
inDrive
20 hours ago

Senior Data Scientist (Geo Search)

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Job Summary

Own ranking, relevance, and recommendation for geo search, including training-data creation and production model stewardship. Build label pipelines from search sessions and completed rides, measure impact with offline replay and online A/B tests, and deliver models that return within tens of milliseconds per keystroke. Work cross-functionally across backend, ML, mobile, and QA to improve place search, autocomplete, geocoding, and personalization for cities with limited map data.
Location: Cyprus
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own ranking, relevance, and recommendation for geo search end to end, from training data through models serving in production.
  • •Build the label pipeline that turns search sessions and completed rides into trustworthy training data, including correction for position bias and presentation effects.
  • •Train and own models that order results, plus a confidence model to decide per query whether to serve internally or fall back externally.
  • •Own evaluation end to end using offline replay, error analysis, and online experiments to prove impact.
  • •Keep models healthy after launch as data and cities shift.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 70,700 annually
Perks:Learning ProgramsVolunteeringMentoringLanguage Courses

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building models that shipped and improved a production metric.
  • •Direct experience with ranking, search relevance, or recommendation systems and how they are evaluated.
  • •Expert Python and SQL; fluency with gradient boosting; working knowledge of transformers.
  • •Experience taking a model to production and owning it afterwards.
  • •Ability to work across teams, since search-quality work generates data and engineering tasks.
Skills:Cross-team collaboration
Tech Stack:PythonSQLGradient boostingTransformersOpenSearchElasticsearchLarge language models

Company Brief

inDrive
A ride-hailing and mobility platform that lets passengers and drivers negotiate fares directly in real time. It also offers intercity travel, courier, and delivery services in multiple countries.
Industry: Mobility Platforms
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2013
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