Job Summary: We believe personalization is the operating system of the customer experience—not just a recommendation engine. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will define the scientific vision and technical strategy for an AI-native personalization platform that powers Search, Recommendations, Homepage, Ads, and Notifications for millions of users. This is a high-impact leadership role where your work will directly influence customer engagement, retention, and Watch Time Per User (WTPU), while setting the direction for one of the industry's most advanced personalization ecosystems. If you're passionate about building AI systems at massive scale and solving complex customer problems, this is your prospect to make a lasting impact.

About the team: At JioHotstar, the Viewer Experience (VX) org is at the heart of how millions discover, engage with, and fall in love with our platform. We own the end-to-end user journey—from first app launch to daily habit loops—across Search, Personalization, Watch Experience, Interactivity, and more. We blend world-class engineering, ML, design,



and data to deliver a seamless, personalized, and engaging OTT experience at massive scale. If you're passionate about building immersive, intelligent, and performant user experiences that delight a billion users, join us in shaping the future of streaming.

Key responsibilities:
Define the personalization vision: Lead the evolution of JioHotstar's AI-native personalization platform, by designing systems that continuously understand every content we carry on the platform, who the customer is, what they intend to consume, and what they are most likely to value next, enabling seamless personalization across Search, Recommendations, Homepage, Ads, and Notifications.
Architect next-generation AI systems: Build scalable, real-time personalization solutions using representation learning, foundation models, sequential user modeling, multimodal intelligence, semantic retrieval, and continuously lea

📌 Principal Data Scientist (Bengaluru)
🏢 JioHotstar
📍 Bengaluru