We are looking for excellent data scientists to join our 20+ strong team. This position focuses on surfacing and measuring relationships between travelers, properties, and destinations. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to improve the traveler search experience by providing recommendations for properties, destinations and other search refinements. The algorithms you develop with directly impact millions of travelers as they plan their dream vacation.

Challenges to work on:

• Establish and determine relationships between travelers, properties, and destinations for use on the search page and other downstream systems.

• Leverage traveler behavior to provide recommendations for properties.

• Determine which property features/amenities are most relevant to travelers for a given destination.

• Provide recommendations for related destinations.

Responsibilities:

• Apply best-in-class machine learning techniques to solve business problems.

• Build algorithms that directly impact the traveler and enrich downstream machine learning / data science systems.

• Lead and assist in the data discovery and preparation phase.

• Attend conferences and read papers to stay on top of advancements in the field.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in data science.

• Experience with recommendation systems and related techniques.

• Experience with natural language processing or unstructured data a plus.

• Practical experience with Python and the PyData stack (pandas, numpy, sklearn, etc).

• Large-scale data processing (Hive, Spark, or related) experience.

• Strong SQL skills.

• Ability and passion to learn new techniques and stay on the cutting edge.

• Good storytelling skills to communicate cross functionally to product, engineering and c-suite.

• Knowing when to apply the right technique in the right place to maximize impact and minimize complexity.

Benefits:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits

• Competitive salary

• Annual target bonus or commission

• Generous paid vacation and sick time

• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)

• Employee Stock Purchase Program

• Free snacks and beverages

• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team

• Free listing on HomeAway.com

• Electric, adjustable stand-up desk

• Discounted Metro & Rail pass

• Casual dress code