🚀 Staff Data Scientist – Viewer Experience (Remote / Contract)
💻About the Role:
We are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join our partner's Viewer Experience team and help shape how millions of users discover, engage with, and enjoy streaming content. You will build and optimize end-to-end personalization systems, refine scoring, ranking, and eligibility models, and leverage advanced ML to address cold starts, data drift, and explainable outcomes.
🚀Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze large-scale user behavior and content metadata to extract actionable insights.
- Design, develop, and deploy ML models: collaborative filtering, content-based recommendations, sequence models, and ranking pipelines.
- Integrate models into production systems with low latency and high accuracy at scale.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to define personalization goals.
- Develop robust A/B testing frameworks, analyze experiments, and iterate based on performance and engagement.
- Monitor model performance, detect data drift, and refine strategies for long-term personalization quality.
- Leverage LLMs and embeddings to improve recommendations for new users, underrepresented content, and diverse formats.
- Present technical strategies and results to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
🤖Qualifications:
- BSc/MSc in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 8–10 years of experience in data science, preferably in personalization or recommendation systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and relevant libraries (Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
- Expertise in building and deploying ML models into production systems.
- Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).
- Strong understanding of statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining, and predictive modeling.
- Comfortable leveraging LLMs and embeddings for personalization.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to translate business problems into data science solutions.
⚡Why Join:
- Work on cutting-edge personalization for millions of users worldwide.
- Combine ML, data science, and engineering in a high-impact role.
- Fully remote and flexible work environment.
Apply today and help deliver the next generation of personalized streaming experiences!