Master’s Scholarship Recipient – Intelligent Search, Recommendation, and Purchasing Optimization

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Assess and analyze the existing search functionalities of Mercado IGA, focusing on ranking systems, semantic search, and relevance of results.

• Create models for clustering similar offers to enhance Buy Box capabilities and facilitate supplier comparisons.

• Develop innovative search mechanisms that can convert purchasing intentions into organized product sets.

• Design solutions for the automatic generation of shopping carts from lists, commercial proposals, or natural language descriptions.

• Construct multi-criteria optimization models to suggest shopping cart configurations based on lowest cost, shortest delivery time, or minimal supplier count.

⛳️ Requirements

• A completed or in-progress master’s degree.

• A degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, or Applied Mathematics.

• Relevant practical or academic experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems.

• Proficiency in Python for modeling, AI, optimization, or data science applications.

• Familiarity with embeddings, vector search, or similarity mechanisms.

• Experience in optimization algorithms or operations research.

• Understanding of multi-agent systems or intelligent-agent frameworks.

• Capability to model decision-making scenarios with multiple criteria and constraints.

• Prior experience in marketplaces, e-commerce, procurement, or supply chain environments.

• Experience with Buy Box functionalities, product matching, item recommendations, or shopping basket optimization.

• Knowledge of multi-criteria optimization techniques.

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Typesense, or comparable search technologies.

• Understanding of graphs, ontologies, or semantic representation of products.

• Publications, research, or practical projects related to recommendation systems, optimization, agents, or intelligent search.

🏝️ Benefits

• Scholarship Stipend: BRL 9,000.00

• Option for remote work.

• Availability to work 40 hours per week.

• Duration of 12 months.