Senior Data Scientist
DuckDuckGoInternet Privacy company
RemoteSenior
Union Square Ventures
OMERS Ventures
Tiger Global Management
Thrive Capital
GP Bullhound
Brian Acton
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling and data analysis.
- •Drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, Bayesian marketing analysis, and classifier implementation across our search engine, instant answers, AI, and revenue optimization.
- •Key Responsibilities Defining core growth metrics for our products and building the infrastructure to monitor trends and anomalies Measuring the impact of major marketing campaigns for Duck.ai, translating full-funnel data into actionable decisions Building monitoring pipelines to detect unexpected shifts in search traffic patterns faster and more reliably Expanding evaluation datasets for page context understanding across complex scenarios like multi-tab browsing and content reattachment Improving the trigger systems that determine when AI-assisted answers surface in DuckDuckGo Search, balancing quality and our privacy-first approach Requirements 7+ years of experience in Data Science and a track record of leading high-complexity projects from scoping to production with minimal direction Deploy and iterate on ML in production environments Develop and deploy NLP solutions Apply knowledge of LLMs including fine-tuning, LLM-as-judge, and AI-assisted development Conduct marketing campaign analysis using Bayesian methods Write production-grade code in Python or a comparable high-level language Advanced SQL and query optimization skills, familiarity with columnar databases like BigQuery, Clickhouse, Redshift, or Druid; experience with a BI tool like Tableau or PowerBI is a plus Design, implement, and analyze experiments across product surfaces, and are comfortable deriving
Required skills
PythonSQLBigQueryMLflowKubeflowscikit-learnNLPLLMsA/B Testing
Nice-to-have skills
TableauPower BI
Tech stack
PythonSQLBigQueryRedshiftTableauPower BI