Senior Applied Scientist - Search (all genders)

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THE ROLE & THE TEAM The Search team at Zalando is at the heart of our customer experience. We are responsible for the core discovery journey of millions of customers, ensuring they find the fashion and lifestyle products they love out of a catalog of millions of items. By leveraging state-of-the-art information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, and emerging agentic AI, we continuously improve query understanding, product ranking, and personalized search experiences. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the Search team, you will be a technical leader in developing and deploying advanced, machine learning models and agentic workflows that directly impact our search engine's relevance and performance.…

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