# Sr. Data Scientist

Title of role: Senior Data Scientist Location: New York or Boston; Hybrid (2 days in the office required) Approved Salary Range: 145k- 150k About the Role: Rue Gilt Groupe is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to build and ship the personalization systems behind Rue La La, Gilt, and ShopSimon. You will own products end to end, not just the models behind them: from problem framing and success metrics through feature engineering, training, real-time serving, and monitoring, and see your work reach 50M+ members every day. Flash sale off-price is one of the hardest settings in e-commerce for recommendations. Inventory is limited and short-lived, new products and boutiques launch daily, and cold start is the norm, not the edge case. If that sounds like a fun problem, we would like to talk. Key Responsibilities: Personalization at scale: Ranking and recommendation models that power product discovery across boutiques, product pages, and our AI shopping assistant Core algorithms: Boutique sort, similar styles, complete the look, and real-time reranking that blends member intent with merchandising goals Exploration and learning: Contextual bandits and adaptive strategies that adjust the exper

- **Id**: 3705861
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rue-la-la-sr-data-scientist-2>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Boston, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T17:37:38Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:54:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7805
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work, Life insurance, Stock options, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Marketplaces

## Company

- **Id**: 686201
- **Name**: Rue La La
- **Domain**: ruelala.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ruelala>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 35
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T21:03:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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