Senior Data Scientist (Pricing)
- Full-time
Company Description
About Grab and Our Workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.
Job Description
Get to Know the Team
The Pricing Data Science team builds pricing systems that balance marketplace efficiency with partner and consumer satisfaction.
Get to Know the Role
You will build automated pricing products that adjust fares based on market supply and demand to meet business targets. You will report to the Senior Data Science Manager and work from our Grab One North Singapore office.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- You will build machine learning, reinforcement learning, and operations research models to optimize pricing based on supply and demand patterns
- You will build automated pipelines to retrain models, tune parameters, and deploy them to production environments
- You will build dashboards that monitor model performance and trigger alerts when data anomalies occur
- You will write technical documentation explaining model architectures, system designs, and operational procedures
- You will present solutions to stakeholders and conduct code reviews to ensure production code meets engineering standards
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
To perform these tasks, you will need:
- You hold a Master's Degree with at least 2 years working experience in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or Software Engineering.
- Experience applying advanced algorithms in two or more of the following: reinforcement learning for sequential pricing decisions, deep learning for demand prediction, operations research for resource allocation, or causal inference for measuring pricing impact
- Experience using AI coding assistants or autonomous agents (such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools) to generate experimental code, validate input datasets, or optimize model parameters
- Experience building data processing pipelines using Python, SQL, and Spark to Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) datasets for model training and real-time serving
- Experience with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch for developing neural network architectures and deploying models to production
- Experience using Git for version control, including branching strategies and pull request workflows for collaborative code development
Additional Information
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
- Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours
What We Stand For At Grab
We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.