DICK'S Sporting Goods · 23 hours ago
Lead Data Scientist, Search (REMOTE)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$95K/yr - $159K/yr
6+ years expDICK’S Sporting Goods is a leading omnichannel retailer committed to creating an inclusive workforce. They are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive enterprise impact by delivering advanced intelligent decisioning tools using AI and Machine Learning, enhancing the customer and teammate search experience.
Consumer GoodsE-CommerceSporting GoodsSports
Responsibilities
Lead design and implementation of advanced algorithms that improve multi-modal search performance, including using embeddings, graph learning, deep learning and large language models (LLMs), by refining query understanding, retrieval, ranking and whole page optimization
Developing & Optimizing Ranking Algorithms: Designing and deploying ranking algorithms that go beyond keyword matching to consider content quality, user experience and various site-level factors for determining the order of search results
Search Personalization: Develop & Implement AI/ML driven search personalization algorithms that learn from user behavior & preferences to deliver tailored search results based on user metadata like location, past site behavior etc
Expertise in data systems: Collaborate with data & search engineers to build robust data pipelines for collecting, transforming & managing massive datasets required for efficient operation of search systems. This includes unique challenges of integrating & synchronizing multimodal data streams
Search Architecture Design & Optimization: Collaborating with software engineers and architects to design and optimize the underlying infrastructure supporting the search engine
Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Developing and implementing tools & processes to monitor the performance of search systems in real time, detecting anomalies, ensuring data quality, and addressing technical issues to maintain the efficiency & effectivenss of the search system
Experimentation & A/B testing: Collaborate with analytics teams to design, conduct and analyze controlled experiments that evaluate search performance, bringing in deeper insights that help validate hypotheses about impact of search algorithms
Research & development of emerging technologies: Staying updated with the latest advancements in AI, ML & search technologies and exploring opportunities to incorporate these innovations into search systems
Mentor junior scientists and machine learning engineers in their technical work and help establish a deep technical community invested in search experiences improvement
Work collaboratively across functions to drive scalable, robust technical solutions and be part of the engineering technical leader community
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in the field with at least 2-3 years of being the main technical lead in related projects (strongly preferred)
Experience in varied search systems, like Elastic, SOLR, with deep understanding of their underlying infrastructure and customization capabilities
Experience being the technical lead of multiple projects at the same time, responsible for delivery and business metrics
Experience in API engineering, including designing, developing and maintaining APIs
Extensive experience using common machine learning and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenAI, and LangChain
Expert understanding of Python and other common languages
Expert level experience in big data technologies including but not limited to Spark, Kafka, distributed systems computing etc
Experience in an Agile working environment and at least one related project management tool (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.)
Previous experience mentoring, training, and developing junior members of the team through technical influence
Experience with software engineering principles as it relates to Machine Learning systems
Comfortable presenting results to and influencing senior and executive leadership on strategic technical decisions, from the lens of science
Deep understanding of SOTA machine learning models in the overall search space. Bonus if specific experience in cutting edge multi-modal systems
Brings a collaborative, problem solving and growth mindset to all interactions with a strong focus on delivery
Preferred
Master's Degree or equivalent level in quantitative fields like computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, etc
Substantial general work experience together with comprehensive job related experience in own area of expertise to fully competent level. (Over 6 years to 10 years)
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DICK'S Sporting Goods
Dick's Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.5B2025-06-06Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2022-01-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2002-10-16IPO
Leadership Team
Edward W. Stack
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Lauren Hobart
President and CEO; Member of Board of Directors
Recent News
2026-01-18
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