Job Description
Title: Staff Data Scientist
Location: US – Remote
Note: BuzzFeed, Inc. offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) and open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, and WV. For non sales roles, we can also hire in AK, AR, AZ, ID, KS, MO, ND, SC, and VT.
About BuzzFeed, Inc.
BuzzFeed, Inc. (Ticker: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet. Across food, news, pop culture and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. We’ll continue to recruit the best founders and creators to join us in this mission, with more additions like Complex Networks and HuffPost to come.
The Team
The Data Science & Machine Learning team is diverse, coming from varying backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets. The team uses cutting edge Data Science & Machine Learning techniques to power decisions, inform strategy, build robust capabilities, and identify opportunities for innovation across the company. We are true hybrids – software engineers, statisticians, mathematicians and domain experts – who specialize in translating questions into methodical approaches, experiments, and products. We think deeply about the limitations of data, and communicate our output coherently.
You Will
- Code in Python, Tensorflow, Keras, SQL and maybe Go leveraging industry leading ML development tools built on top of Google Vertex AI and AWS SageMaker.
- Conduct comprehensive studies of BuzzFeed’s current approach to Recommender Systems to identify opportunities, gaps and areas of ML investment.
- Partner with senior engineering, product and data leadership to strategize and develop ML architectures and research roadmaps.
- Lead a group of 3-5 ML scientists and engineers and engage Product Managers and Product Engineers to devise ML roadmaps that grow the product/business.
- Contribute and shape the ML infrastructure to support your vision and execution needs.
Who You Are
- Have 1+ years of experience leading initiatives, people and strategy either as a tech lead, intern manager, research manager in industry or academia.
- Have 5+ total years of research + industry background in areas of Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Recommendation Systems and/or Computational Sciences.
- Entrepreneurial, inventive but pragmatic to iteratively research and implement algorithmic solutions to challenging business and industry-wide problems.
- Want to build Personalization and Recommendation Systems for high data velocity consumer scale.
- Enjoy coaching, guiding and mentoring early career Data Scientists through a complex, fast moving, technical, and organizational landscape.
- Adept at interfacing with non-technical stakeholders, identifying business needs, quickly establishing relationships and delivering ML driven solutions with agility.
- Enjoy the scientific processes of experimentation design, offline/online evaluation and experimentation error analysis.
Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.
We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.
You can expect:
- A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
- Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning @ BuzzFeed team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more
- An attractive and equitable compensation package, including salary and stock options.
- A generous benefits program featuring paid time off, unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, and much more.
We want all employees to feel safe and comfortable when they engage in any in-person meetings, when visiting the office, or when working from an offsite production or meeting location. As part of this commitment to health and safety, BuzzFeed requires COVID-19 vaccines for current U.S. employees, including all newly hired employees. Requests for accommodation per applicable law for health and/or religious reasons will be considered. Union employees are subject to what is outlined in their applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Note: BuzzFeed, Inc. offers remote/flexible work (unless specified to be required to be in-person) and open to hiring remote candidates who are residents in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, MI, MS, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, and WV. For non sales roles, we can also hire in AK, AR, AZ, ID, KS, MO, ND, SC, and VT.
