Senior Principal Data Scientist

Warner Bros. Discovery

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Atlanta, GA
Posted
10 days ago

Market check

Salary context

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $167k
$104k most similar roles pay here $238k

This listing doesn't post a salary. Most similar roles pay $133,750–$200,596.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media and entertainment company operating a broad portfolio of iconic content and brands including Warner Bros. film studio, HBO, CNN, Discovery Channel, and Max streaming service. Industry: Media & Entertainment

Warner Bros. Discovery currently has 63 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $132,300–$245,700 across 44 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Warner Bros. Discovery

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Principal Data Scientist

As a Sr. Principal Data Scientist at Warner Bros. Discovery, you will serve as one of the company’s most senior technical individual contributors, focusing on designing and implementing advanced ML systems across content intelligence, audience modeling, forecasting, advertising analytics, and more. Your day-to-day involves setting technical direction for complex projects without direct management responsibilities, ensuring rigorous statistical thinking and scientific validation in all solutions. You will work with modern cloud ecosystems like AWS and Snowflake to architect scalable ML systems, collaborate closely with data engineering teams, and deliver mission-critical AI solutions that translate into clear executive insights. The role requires deep expertise in predictive modeling, MLOps, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SQL, and a strong background in Media & Entertainment or digital advertising.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement advanced machine learning models for complex business problems.
  • Set technical direction and standards for enterprise-scale ML implementations.
  • Architect production-grade ML systems integrated with cloud data ecosystems.
  • Translate complex modeling outputs into clear, executive-ready insights for decision-making.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior leaders across various departments.
  • Mentor senior data scientists through technical guidance and design reviews.

What we're looking for

  • 15-18 years of experience in Data Science, ML, and AI at enterprise scale.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in designing and implementing advanced ML systems.
  • Proven ability to set technical direction for complex ML implementations.
  • Expertise in state-of-the-art models including large-scale recommender systems and NLP.
  • Experience architecting production-grade ML systems integrated with cloud data ecosystems.
  • Strong track record of delivering mission-critical AI solutions across business areas.

More like this

Similar roles

Principal Data Scientist

Walmart

Bellevue, WA 24 days ago $132,000$264,000
Python Spark Scala R TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn SQL Hive Java Agentic Gen AI Machine Learning Statistics Big Data Ecosystem CI/CD Mentorship Kaggle

Principal Data Scientist

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 100 days ago
Python SQL R TensorFlow PyTorch Scikit-learn Kubernetes AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform CI/CD Docker Git Jupyter Notebook PostgreSQL MongoDB Apache Spark Hadoop Machine Learning Deep Learning Statistics Data Visualization NLP Time Series Analysis

Principal Data Scientist

Autodesk

San Francisco, CA 39 days ago $135,000$242,000
Python SQL Machine Learning Predictive Modeling A/B Testing Causal Inference Data Architecture LLMs RAG Systems Vector Databases Geometric Data Representations CI/CD AWS Kubernetes

Principal Data Scientist

Microsoft

US 138 days ago $142,800$274,800
Python SQL R MachineLearning StatisticalAnalysis DataVisualization AWS Azure GoogleCloud CI/CD Git Docker Kubernetes Terraform ResponsibleAI EthicsInAI ScalableCode CustomerOrientedApproach CrossFunctionalCollaboration

Principal Data Scientist

Northrop Grumman

San Diego, CA 6 days ago $125,300$187,900
Python SQL Tableau .DAT file decoding CI/CD AWS R PostgreSQL Kubernetes Docker Git Jupyter Notebook PowerBI Plotly Prometheus Grafana