Staff Applied Scientist - Search & Personalization

About the Team:

The Search Machine Learning (ML) team at Wayfair is at the forefront of designing and implementing algorithms that define our global search experience. Using cutting-edge machine learning approaches—including advanced NLP, semantic search, and multi-modal technologies—we aim to deliver fast, accurate, and personalized search results for over 22 million active customers. Our mission is to make the search experience intuitive and efficient, helping customers discover exactly what they need in a vast and diverse product catalog.

Responsibilities:
+ Enhance search relevance: Design and implement scalable ML models that improve the relevance, ranking, and personalization of search results across Wayfair’s platforms.
+ Optimize retrieval systems: Develop and fine-tune search retrieval techniques to improve performance and scalability in handling web-scale customer queries.
+ Advance query understanding: Apply advanced NLP techniques to enhance q...