Applied Data Scientist II
Location:
Bellevue, WA, US, 98004
Date: Apr 24, 2021
Req ID: 125
Description:
Discovery hires the very best and brightest talent who are enthusiastic and passionate to fulfill the company’s mission of empowering people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity.
In exchange for their talent and drive, employees are provided with an engaging, diverse workplace and the resources they need to learn, thrive and grow in their careers.
Position Summary
As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people’s curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.
The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT) which covers search, recommendation, personalization, catalogue, video transcoding, global subscriptions and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery’s future.
Responsibilities
We are hiring Applied Data Scientist to join the Personalization, Recommendation and Search team. As part of a rapidly growing team, you will own complex systems that will provide a personalized and unique experience for millions of users across over 200 countries for all the Discovery brands. You will be responsible for designing and implementing state-of-the-art ML algorithms and systems to personalize the entire experience for our users. You will apply advanced ML techniques to build Recommender and Search systems.
Requirements
5+ years of experience designing, building, deploying, testing, maintaining, monitoring and owning scalable, resilient and distributed machine learning algorithms and systems.
Expertise with Machine Learning algorithms applied to Recommender Systems and Search.
Proficiency in operating machine learning solutions at scale, covering the end-to-end ML workflow.
Experience with offline experimentation and A/B testing.
Deep knowledge of ML tools and frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, pyTorch, scikit-learn, Spark, ...).
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