Senior Staff Data Scientist
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RedditData Science / Social Media
Remote - Ontario, CanadaFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years with Ph.D. or 12+ years with M.S.
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMachine LearningData scienceR
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Economics, or related field.
- M.S. with 12+ years of industry experience or Ph.D. with 8+ years of industry experience.
- Deep expertise in metrics design and evaluation for ranking and recommendation systems.
- Strong understanding of causal inference and experimentation methodology.
- Experience defining and validating quality metrics for content ranking, search, or recommendations at scale.
- Strong theoretical grounding in experimental design.
- Expert knowledge of SQL and proficiency in R and/or Python.
- Demonstrated ability to influence product and organizational strategy.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience mentoring data scientists.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority on relevance metrics and evaluation methodology across Consumer.
- Develop metrics frameworks and offline evaluation approaches for ranking and recommendation systems.
- Design and analyze experiments for relevance features.
- Identify opportunities where improved measurement and analysis can unlock product insights.
- Partner deeply with ML engineers and product teams to translate model performance metrics into user-facing impact.
- Influence the long-term product strategy for Feeds and Search.
- Mentor and elevate other data scientists across the organization.
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