Senior Data Scientist, Platform (Algorithms/Trust)

1. About Our Client:

The organization operates a global platform connecting millions of hosts and guests, facilitating unique stays and experiences across nearly every country. It addresses the challenge of building trust among a vast, distributed community by ensuring accurate, authentic, and policy-compliant user-generated content such as listings, profiles, and messages. The company uses advanced AI-driven systems and human-in-the-loop workflows to maintain content integrity and protect community standards at scale.

2. About the Opportunity:

The Senior Data Scientist, Platform (Algorithms/Trust) role is focused on enhancing the safety, trust, and quality of user experiences by advancing content understanding capabilities. This position drives the development of next-generation Trust Content Understanding Models that interpret and act on user-generated content to ensure compliance and mitigate risks. The role contributes directly to maintaining a trustworthy platform by building and deploying AI and machine learning models that detect and manage problematic content, optimizing system effectiveness, and shaping long-term AI strategies for content integrity.

3. Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy production AI/ML systems for content integrity, including NLP and LLM-based models

• Develop models for detecting problematic or misleading content through text classification, semantic similarity, and generative reasoning

• Design and optimize human-in-the-loop ML workflows for content review, labeling, escalation, and continuous improvement

• Detect emerging content risks and abuse patterns using statistical, ML, and representation-learning methods

• Create sampling and evaluation strategies to measure rare events, policy recall, and model blind spots

• Collaborate with inference data scientists to conduct causal inference analyses and assess impact

• Analyze tradeoffs between enforcement accuracy, user experience, cost, and coverage to optimize systems

• Deliver clear research reports with data visualizations and collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Contribute to defining the long-term AI-driven content understanding vision within the Trust ecosystem

4. Requirements:

• 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative analysis with a Master’s degree in a quantitative field, or 2+ years with a Ph.D.

• Expertise in AI/ML models

• Hands-on experience with NLP and LLM-based solutions, including text classification and generative applications

• Working knowledge of causal inference

• Proficiency in statistical programming (Python or R) and SQL

• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to translate complex findings into impactful narratives

• Excellent project management and collaboration skills

• Experience in Trust & Safety is a plus

5. Pay Range and Compensation Package:

• The pay range and compensation package for this role will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and other relevant factors.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.

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