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$194,875–$254,750
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$286k
versus about
$225k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Snap Inc.
Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.
Snap Inc. currently has
103 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$209,000–$313,000
across 93 roles with salary data.
The Staff Research Scientist, User Modeling and Personalization joins the User Modeling and Personalization Research Team to invent new ways to model user behavior. This role involves formulating a research agenda in generative modeling, recommendation systems, information retrieval, and efficiency to build world-class user-centric ML systems. You will partner with engineering teams to translate research into business impact for real-world applications, build scalable research prototypes, and mentor interns and junior researchers. The position requires expertise in deep learning literature, Python, and PyTorch, with experience in distributed multi-node and multi-GPU ML model training. You will solve technical problems involving representation learning for structured graph data and applying language models to generative search, ranking, and personalization to deliver customized experiences for millions of users.
What does a Research Scientist earn?
Median $216250 from 45 postings across 16 companies.
Foundation Models
World Models
Multimodal Learning
Deep Learning
Large Language Models
Generative Modeling
Representation Learning
Pre-training
Distributed Systems
Observability
Metrics
Logs
Traces
Topology
Events
Telemetry Data
Machine Learning
PyTorch
Python
Deep Learning
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Language Models
Multi-GPU
Google Cloud
AWS
Azure
Representation Learning
Graph Data
Preference Optimization