Senior Staff Data Scientist · G13

Central Data Science (CDS) · Bengaluru · Flipkart

About the Team

Central Data Science (CDS) is the ~120-person team that builds the intelligence layer underneath Flipkart — Search, Recommendations, Pricing, Ads, Planning, Supply Chain, Fintech, Trust & Safety, Catalog, and the AI platforms they all run on. We are structured as domain Pods, each owning a problem space end-to-end alongside its product and engineering counterparts. Furthermore we are responsible for building AI platforms which are adopted across Flipkart group.

What makes the environment unusual is the combination of three things you rarely get together: scale that actually stress-tests models (BBD runs Flipkart's systems at 6–7× normal traffic, with the data layer crossing a million QPS at peak); consequential surfaces — Search, Pricing, Forecasting, Fraud, Reco, Ad...