Staff Applied Scientist, Search and Discovery

Job overview

The Staff Applied Scientist, Search and Discovery role is based in Boston, MA; the posting describes a hybrid work model that may be remote, in person, or a combination, depending on the department. Compensation is not specified. Material Bank operates a marketplace connecting architecture and design professionals with materials from leading brands. The scientist develops and evaluates search, ranking, and recommendation approaches, from data exploration and prototyping through collaboration with engineering on production deployment. The work improves how members find and discover materials across the platform.

What you'll do

• Improve search retrieval and ranking
• build recommendation algorithms
• analyze behavioral and catalog data
• improve query parsing, intent recognition, and semantic understanding
• identify catalog data quality issues
• prototype and evaluate models and reranking approaches
• assess image-based search and color matching
• develop evaluation frameworks, metrics, and experiments
• collaborate with product, engineering, and catalog teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff applied scientist

search and discovery

boston ma

material bank

search retrieval

ranking systems

recommendation systems

query understanding

natural language processing

machine learning

image-based search

hybrid work model

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Flexible paid time off, sick days, and paid national holidays
• medical, dental, vision, and disability plan contributions
• employee assistance program
• 401(k) eligibility after 90 days
• flexible work schedules
• growth and development opportunities.

Why this role

Hands-on research role with responsibility for developing, testing, and proving approaches before partnering with engineering to productionize them.

About the employer

Material Bank is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.