Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DuckDuckGo is an online protection company and remote-first team focused on raising the standard of trust online. The Staff Data Scientist will drive product and business impact by improving search engine ranking and results, developing ranking and retrieval signals, expanding search evaluations, and investigating LLMs for feature generation and ranking.
Responsibilities
- Improving first-phase ranking quality and precision without sacrificing latency
- Developing new lexical-matching and document-authority signals
- Expanding our search evaluations to measure relevancy readiness and surface ranking blindspots
- Investigating LLMs for feature generation and ranking
Skills
- • You have 10+ years of experience in Data Science, with 2+ years at Staff, Principal, or Director level, and a track record of leading high-complexity projects from scoping to production with minimal direction
- • You are comfortable advising others on complex data science work
- • You can develop strategies for ambiguous, complex data science problems and turn them into a series of well-defined projects
- • You have hands-on experience deploying ML in production, developing NLP solutions, and in AI-assisted development
- • You write production-grade code in Python or a comparable high-level language
- • You have advanced SQL and query optimization skills
- • You collaborate effectively with product teams and contribute to overall team throughput
- • You'll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
- • Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend
- • While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week
- + Running search-specific projects (ranking, retrieval, or indexing) from scoping to production
- + Working with large-scale search infrastructure (e.g. Vespa, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr)
Benefits
- Stock options
- Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States. This program does not extend to team members located in other countries, such as Canada or the UK.
- Paid parental leave
- Office setup
- Co-working allowances
- A flexible work arrangement with no core hours
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