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NBCUniversal · 2 days ago
Principal Data Scientist
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$185K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Own and deliver results on existing and new complex projects related to the development of analytical models using machine learning, causal uplift modeling, and Gen AI techniques.
Provide mentorship to teammates via pairing and code reviews
Be a technical lead for the team; keep up to date on state of the art methods and help apply them where needed.
Expertly communicates work and project implications to stakeholders of varying technical expertise.
Build out templates and examples for the team on coding, readmes, and presentation materials.
Conduct rigorous cross-validation and backtesting of model performance.
Expertise with CI/CD processes and contributes to a sustainable and robust codebase
Experience with batch jobs/data pipelines and is comfortable deploying through these systems (i.e. Airflow, Luigi, Composer)
Build and interact with production systems for serving machine learning predictions.
Work cross-functionally across data, engineering, and product to launch and maintain machine leaning driven projects.
Qualification
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Required
Advanced (Master or PhD) degree with specialization in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Mathematics, Operations Research or another quantitative field or equivalent.
5-8 years of combined experience in data science in industry or research.
Has expert knowledge of standard data science and statistical techniques
Has expert knowledge of two of causal inference techniques, Gen AI (LLM) implementation, or contextual bandits
Experience implementing scalable systems (Google Cloud preferred).
Experience with data visualization tools and techniques.
Ability work with stakeholders to drive project ideas and turn them into rigorous solutions
Expert knowledge of Python and SQL
Preferred
Working experience with product teams to deploy prescriptive machine learning models to drive one or more KPIs.
Knowledge of enterprise-level digital analytics platforms (e.g. Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, etc.)
Implementing and owning end-to-end data projects with a diverse group of stakeholders
Experience with building/working with low response time Machine Learning apis with use cases such as search, recommendations, or prediction
Experience being the “tech lead” for a stakeholder facing data science team
Experience contributing to unit, integration, and data integrity tests for a Machine Learning codebase
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k)
Paid leave
Tuition reimbursement
Various discounts and perks
Company
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal is a media company that provides entertainment and news development, production, distribution, and marketing services. It is a sub-organization of Comcast.
10,001+ employees
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Funding
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unknown2011-01-29Acquired· by Comcast
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