Senior/Staff Data Scientist

About the Role:

We are hiring a world-class data scientist to shape both our user-facing and business-facing products at You.com. Your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms will be essential in tackling some of the company’s most complex engineering challenges. You will collaborate with diverse cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Data Engineering to address a wide range of product and business problems.

The ideal candidate will take pride in their dual expertise as a software engineer and data scientist, leading end-to-end projects to understand user behavior and drive growth. As an early member of our data science team, your contributions will be crucial in elevating our product development and bringing scientific rigor into real-world AI applications that impact hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Join us in shaping the future of AI technology and making a global difference!

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the next generation of data and analytics for a fast-growing Generative AI product.
• Work with large datasets to extract insights, build predictive models, and optimize AI algorithms.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and engineering to align on goals and deliverables.
• Drive the development of innovative strategies to enhance user engagement, satisfaction, and revenue.
• Create and track success metrics. Identify the right measures of success for product teams and own the full lifecycle of those metrics from logging requirements, metrics definition, prototype pipelines, and improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute A/B tests, identify impactful business questions, conduct deep-dive analysis, and communicate findings and actionable recommendations to audiences at all levels to drive data-driven decisions.

Skills & Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and equivalent 5+ years of professional experience as a Data Scientist solving real-world problems on web-scale data.
• Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others.
• Strong technical skills with the ability to dive into the details of modeling and inference tasks.
• Deep understanding of machine learning, recommendation systems, and data-driven product development.
• Strong experience in statistical methods including A/B Testing, experimental design, regression, and causal inference with observational data.
• Strong experience writing production-quality code in Python and Spark, including Spark SQL, DataFrames, Spark Streaming, RDD caching, Spark MLib, and the ability to debug and optimize Spark code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and problem-solving.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of working with minimal supervision, demonstrating a high level of independence and initiative in tackling complex problems.

About You.com:

With a deep foundation in search, You.com is truthful, accurate, and transparent, and addresses hallucinations.

You.com was founded by leading AI research scientists, Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce and is the third most-cited researcher in natural language processing (NLP) with over 170,000 citations. Bryan was a lead research scientist at Salesforce Research specializing in deep learning and NLP. Over the years, Richard and Bryan’s collaborative research has had significant implications for the field of NLP, particularly in the areas of word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. Richard's contributions were recently recognized with his inclusion in Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list in 2023 as one of the “most influential people in AI” and the prestigious 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award for his influential research published in 2013.

Since its founding, You.com has transformed how people discover and engage with information online as an AI Assistant that helps people accomplish and solve everyday needs. Recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 AI Innovators for 2023 and featured in Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2022,” You.com has pioneered many solutions for Large Language Model (LLM) challenges, especially around trust and accuracy. You.com notably introduced the first consumer-facing LLM with access to the internet to provide up-to-date answers and include citations. You.com's API further enables other LLM-based chatbots to improve their accuracy with real-time web access. You.com also emphasizes personalized AI chat experiences, offering tailored responses based on users’ backgrounds, interests, and preferences while respecting privacy and ensuring transparent control over personal data.

You.com is accessible on desktop, Chrome web extensions, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp.

Our Perks :

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings.
• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge. 
• Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents.
• 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
• In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year 
• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research.