💼 Full-Time Position

Principal Data Analyst, Information Retrieval

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Falabella India
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Location
Bengaluru, India
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Posted
June 26, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Role: Senior Data Scientist

Experience: 3 to 5 years.


About the role:

You’ll work on the core ranking and retrieval systems behind search, optimizing how user queries map to the product catalog at scale.


What you’ll do:



- Develop search ranking models (learning-to-rank, neural ranking, hybrid)


- Improve query understanding:

-Tokenization, normalization, semantic matching

- Embeddings (dual encoders, semantic search)


- Work with implicit feedback signals (click models, dwell time, conversions)


- Design and evaluate ranking metrics (NDCG, MAP, CTR, CVR)


- Run controlled experiments to improve relevance


Current challenges:



- Moving beyond lexical search → semantic retrieval


- Handling long-tail queries and ambiguous ...