Staff Research Scientist, User Modeling and Personalization

Snap Inc.

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bellevue, WA
Salary
$229,000–$343,000 / yr
Posted
58 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
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99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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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 76 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Research Scientist, User Modeling and Personalization

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The Staff Research Scientist, User Modeling and Personalization joins the User Modeling and Personalization Research Team to invent new ways to model user behavior and build world-class, user-centric machine learning systems. This role involves formulating research agendas in generative modeling, recommendation systems, information retrieval, and representation learning for structured graph data. The successful candidate will partner with engineering teams to translate research into real-world applications, build scalable prototypes, mentor junior researchers, and publish findings at top conferences. Required expertise includes deep learning, Python, PyTorch, and experience with distributed multi-node and multi-GPU training. The role specifically addresses the technical challenge of creating personalized experiences by applying language models in the context of generative search, ranking, and personalization while leveraging large-scale data processing on enterprise cloud solutions to solve complex machine learning problems for millions of users.

What does a Research Scientist earn?

Median $216250 from 42 postings across 13 companies.

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Skills

Machine Learning Python PyTorch Information Retrieval Recommender Systems Representation Learning Graph Data Google Cloud AWS Azure Data Processing Generative Modeling

What you'll do

  • Formulate and derive a research agenda in user modeling, recommendation systems, and information retrieval.
  • Translate research findings into practical machine learning applications for real-world products.
  • Build and evaluate scalable research prototypes in large-scale machine learning environments.
  • Mentor interns, students, and junior researchers within the team.
  • Publish original research findings at top-tier computer science conferences and journals.
  • Develop advanced models for generative search, ranking, and personalized user experiences.

What we're looking for

  • PhD in computer science, machine learning, language technologies, or a related technical field like statistics or mathematics.
  • At least 5 years of industry or postdoctoral experience.
  • A track record of publications in top machine learning, information retrieval, or language venues.
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch with strong computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience with distributed multi-node and multi-GPU machine learning model training, inference, and experimentation.
  • Experience applying language models for generative search, ranking, and personalization.
  • Proven ability to mentor interns, students, and junior researchers.
  • Ability to build scalable research prototypes and translate research into tangible product improvements.

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