Warner Bros. Discovery · 2 months ago
Senior Staff Engineer - Data Science
NY New York 30 Hudson Yards
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$193K/yr - $358K/yr
12+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery is a leading media and entertainment company known for its iconic content and beloved brands. The Sr. Staff, AdTech Data Scientist is responsible for developing and deploying ML/AI systems to optimize advertising workflows and improve campaign performance at a global scale.
AdvertisingBroadcastingDigital EntertainmentDigital MediaFilm ProductionMedia and EntertainmentNewsPublishing
Responsibilities
Build and deploy advanced forecasting, yield management, and pricing models leveraging statistical optimization, reinforcement learning, and decision science, driving efficiency across multi-billion-dollar annual ad spend
Develop algorithms for audience segmentation, cross-platform deduplication, and identity enrichment, ensuring privacy-compliant personalization and cross-device measurement across millions of users
Operationalize ML pipelines with feature engineering, training, deployment, and monitoring, ensuring scalability and reliability on cloud-native platforms (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Databricks)
Partner with engineering and product teams to integrate models into business workflows; mentor junior data scientists in advanced ML methods and experimentation
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or related field strongly preferred; Master's with equivalent applied experience considered
12+ years of experience applying ML and advanced statistical methods to large-scale, production systems
Deep expertise in time-series forecasting, reinforcement learning, statistical optimization, and causal inference
Familiarity with advertising ecosystems including forecasting, yield optimization, identity resolution, and programmatic targeting
Hands-on experience building ML pipelines in cloud-native environments using AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Databricks, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark ML
Strong track record of designing and analyzing experiments to measure business impact of models at revenue scale
Skilled in MLOps, model governance, explainability, and observability frameworks
Ability to partner with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to deliver monetization-focused outcomes
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
An employee wellness program
Life and disability insurance
A retirement savings plan
Paid holidays and sick time
Vacation
Company
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$17.5BKey Investors
JP Morgan
2025-12-05Acquired
2025-06-09Post Ipo Debt· $17.5B
2005-07-15IPO
Leadership Team
David Zaslav
President and CEO
Mark Thompson
CEO
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