CareerPlan

Principal Full-Stack Data Scientist - Foundational Models

San Francisco, CAFull-time$200k–$237k2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building and evolving foundational machine learning systems for personalization and recommendations in retail, including client/item representations, retrieval, ranking, and generative AI.

Role type

Senior Full-Stack Data Scientist (Foundational Models)

Builds

Production ML systems for personalization, recommendation, and assortment generation

Domain

Retail, Personalization, Generative AI, Deep Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, A/B testing, representation learning, multimodal modeling, LLMs

Preferred skills

Master's or PhD in quantitative field

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark

Responsibilities

Design, develop, evaluate, and productionize ML models for personalization; Advance foundational modeling capabilities (embeddings, retrieval, ranking); Explore and apply LLMs and generative approaches; Own work across the full ML lifecycle; Design rigorous offline evaluations and online experiments; Work with large-scale behavioral and product datasets; Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams; Contribute to technical direction via design discussions and best practices.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC