Netflix · 22 hours ago
Research Scientist (L5) - Content Understanding
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$170K/yr - $720K/yr
4+ years expNetflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, and they are seeking a talented Research Scientist to join their Merchandising & Content Understanding pod. The role involves designing and developing models to enhance content metadata and improve the discovery experience on their service through machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions.
Digital EntertainmentMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
Collaborate closely with stakeholders in Product Discovery & Promotion to learn deeply about content metadata and merchandising and identify potentially impactful problems to solve via scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions
Develop innovative systems and models that empower decision-making for stakeholders and product features that can deliver member joy by leveraging a wide variety of metadata and production media generated by and collected from our productions throughout their end-to-end lifecycle
Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to operationalize your models so that they can be integrated seamlessly into operational workflows
Serve as a key thought partner for stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and our diverse set of team members regarding machine learning algorithms and system architectures
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. or MS degree in a quantitative or computational field
4+ years of full-time work experience in one or more relevant machine-learning roles
Practical experience in supervised, unsupervised, and deep machine learning methods
Practical experience applying machine learning and Gen AI solutions to video, audio, and/or textual data sources, and developing quality evaluations via mechanisms such as LLM-as-a-judge or LLM juries
Practical experience operationalizing or productionizing machine learning and/or artificial intelligence solutions
Comfortable and effective in ambiguous problem spaces; ability to own and drive projects with minimal oversight and process
Exceptional written and oral communication with technical and non-technical audiences
Company
Netflix
Netflix is an online streaming platform that enables users to watch TV shows and movies.
10001+ employees
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