Job Description:
Life at Grab
At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which spells out our mission, how we believe we can achieve it, and our operating principles - the 4Hs: Heart, Hunger, Honour and Humility. These principles guide and help us make decisions as we work to create economic empowerment for the people of Southeast Asia.
Get to know the Team
Grab - the leading super app in Southeast Asia - combines transport, food delivery, logistics, payments, and much more in a single platform. The Driver Experience department dedicates to delivering best-in-class products and experiences to our driver partners, to increase adoption and engagement of our services.
Our Data Science team is a long-established core group responsible for Supply Shaping. Harnessing the power of big data and advanced ML methods, we build AI products which help our driver partners work more efficiently and ensure our platform can better serve our consumers. If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact on the lives of millions of Grab driver partners across South East Asia, then you should join our team!
Get to know the Role
As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the innovative and effective solutions to supply shaping problems, so as to improve the overall fulfillment service quality and driver experience. We believe a successful candidate has strong technical capability, good communication skills, and good sense of teamwork and responsibility, but if you believe you have what it takes then we’d love to hear from you either way.
The day-to-day activities
Collaborate with cross functional teams to define business problem, scope out product development, and deliver solutions
Conduct exploratory data analysis to propose improvements to existing products, and generate ideas to shape future projects
Build and maintain efficient ETL and ML pipelines to support existing team projects
Develop novel models and algorithms by employing operations research / machine learning / statistics / probability / economics techniques
Support experiment design and analysis to measure the product impacts
Contribute to team's innovation and IP creation
Learning Opportunities
Be mentored by senior data scientists who are experienced in respective technical domains
Utilise the tech industry’s state-of-the-art ML tools and AI infrastructure
Opportunities to work with peta scale data
The Must-Haves
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Mathematics/Statistics, or related technical disciplines
Solid Machine Learning fundamentals:
Good understanding of statistics and ML models
Hands-on experience in using mainstream deep learning frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch) preferred
Hands-on experience in forecasting models is a plus
Basic software skills:
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Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, R, Scala
Knowledge of distributed data processing frameworks will be a plus ○ Experience with cloud-based development (AWS/Azure) will be a plus
Software engineering experience (including school course projects, as long as project is significant enough and candidate has major contribution) will be a plus
Self-motivated, passionate to learn about new ML methods and big data infrastructure, and willing to share knowledge with team members
Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced working environment while maintaining attention to detail and efficient time management
Efficient and detail oriented time manager who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced working environment
Excellent communication skills, ability to translate complex technical details for non-technical audiences
Our Commitment
We are committed to building diverse teams and creating an inclusive workplace that enables all Grabbers to perform at their best, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity or sexual orientation and other attributes that make each Grabber unique.