Lead Data Scientist - Search & Recommendation

About the Role As an algorithm expert on the Search and Recommendations Platform team, you will work alongside top talent in Singapore, China, Indonesia, and India to shape the intelligence behind GoFood and GoPay systems. You will design and deploy cutting‑edge search, recommendations, and monetisation models that power on‑demand and financial use cases across Indonesia. In your first six months, you will play a key role in launching foundational platform capabilities and collaborating with business‑facing data science teams, to drive business impact and improve user experience.
If you are passionate about applying advanced algorithms to deliver real business outcomes, this is one of the highest‑leverage roles in the company.
What You Will Do
Design and optimise hybrid lexical–semantic retrieval pipelines (e.g., BM25, dense vectors, HNSW/LSH, generative retrieval) to improve precision and recall across GoFood and GoPay surfaces.
Build high‑quality embeddings and relevance ...