# Principal Data Scientist

Responsibilities: Probabilistic forecasting: booking-curve and gradient-boosting models through to TFT and DeepAR, plus time-series foundation models (Chronos-2, TimesFM) for new hotels with no history. Dynamic pricing: reinforcement learning, contextual bandits, and causal uplift models that move real revenue. LLM agents that turn forecasts into live pricing and inventory actions. Requirements: 8+ years in data science, and you still write code (Python, SQL, and Spark). Hotel demand/occupancy forecasting (pace, pickup, cancellations) that you've shipped to production. Hotel pricing or yield models that drove real decisions, with measurable $ impact. Bonus: room allotment / buy-and-hold inventory experience. Skills Data Science, Hotel, Python

- **Id**: 3834825
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hotel-trader-principal-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T20:36:30Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T20:36:30Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 755
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketplaces, Travel Technology

## Company

- **Id**: 3238
- **Name**: Hotel Trader
- **Domain**: hoteltrader.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hotel-trader>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Zoho Recruit

## Technologies

- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T20:36:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: seen:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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