Principal Data Scientist

Get to Know the Team You will join our Search and Personalization team — a group of engineers and data scientists building the intelligence that helps millions of users discover and engage with food, groceries, mobility, and services across Southeast Asia. We work with engineering, product, and business teams to develop foundational machine learning capabilities that allow Grab to better understand users and deliver relevant experiences across the platform. Get to Know the Role Reporting to the Head of Data Science, Business Ecosystem, you'll be based onsite in the Grab One North Singapore office.

This is a Principal Data Scientist and senior individual contributor role in the Search and Personalization team, focusing on user understanding platformization and generative recommendation. You will provide technical leadership in building shared user understanding capabilities that power personalized experiences across Grab, including search, recommendation, chatbot, notification, and other user-facing applications. You will work across Data Science, Engineering, and Product to shape the long-term technical direction, turn latest artificial intelligence research into practical solutions, and drive adoption of these capabilities across teams.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform You will define the technical strategy and roadmap for user understanding and generative personalization, identifying foundational ML capabilities that can be shared across search, recommendation, chatbot,