Milestone Technologies, Inc. · 21 hours ago
Data Scientist
Burbank, CA
Contract
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$70/hr - $75.50/hr
4+ years expMilestone Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with a strong foundation in predictive modeling and statistical analysis. This role involves building production-ready models to forecast content performance and collaborating with business teams to ensure model adoption and trust.
Enterprise SoftwareConsumer GoodsInformation TechnologyApplication Performance ManagementConsumer Electronics
Responsibilities
Build and iterate on predictive models to project content performance
Test different model types (e.g., gradient boosting, regression) and iterate based on accuracy and user interpretability needs
Complete model experiments to validate hypotheses
Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance and contribute to model development roadmap
Explore and segment content types
Use clustering, principal component analysis, and other unsupervised methods to identify patterns in performance drivers and content types
Experiment with GenAI to enrich data (e.g., augmenting metadata tagging or generating synthetic attributes)
Collaborate with business users to refine models and drive adoption
Infuse models and model approach with users’ domain expertise and decision-making workflows
Present early model outputs in accessible ways to solicit feedback and identify gaps, overlooked variables, and implicit assumptions from users
Interpret user feedback and adapt model design and underlying data to prioritize interpretability, usability, or explainability where required to build trust and drive adoption
Maintain and monitor models
Work with ML Engineers to deploy models in production, including API endpoints, and establish ML pipeline
Contribute to shared libraries and modeling best practices across the data science team
Partner with product and platform teams to deliver impact
Contribute to design and implementation of new products where data science models will be embedded, built by agile product PODs
Collaborate with data architects, data engineers, and broader platform team to facilitate technical discussions and enrich the data available for data science
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience Proven experience as a Data Scientist
4+ years of experience Python and common ML library experience (e.g., scikit-learn, XGBoost, pandas)
4+ years of experience and familiarity with AWS tools, especially SageMaker, or equivalent cloud-based ML environments
Preferred
Experience in media & entertainment industry is a strong advantage, but not required
SQL fluency is a plus
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits
Company
Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Milestone Technologies is a global IT Services and Digital Solutions company based in Silicon Valley that helps hundreds of leading corporations deliver technology around the globe.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$42.5MKey Investors
H.I.G. Capital
2022-12-13Acquired
2015-08-11Private Equity· $42.5M
Leadership Team
Sameer Kishore
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mayank K Agrawal
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-10-01
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