Senior/Staff Data Scientist, you.com
AI productivity platform
Job no longer available
AI productivity platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world’s information useful for everyone through its privacy-first personalized search engine.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and equivalent 5+ years of professional experience as a Data Scientist solving real-world problems on web-scale data
- Experience leading key technical projects and substantially influencing the scope and output of others
- Strong technical skills with the ability to dive into the details of modeling and inference tasks
- Deep understanding of machine learning, recommendation systems, and data-driven product development
- Strong experience in statistical methods including A/B Testing, experimental design, regression, and causal inference with observational data
- Strong experience writing production-quality code in Python and Spark, including Spark SQL, DataFrames, Spark Streaming, RDD caching, Spark MLib, and the ability to debug and optimize Spark code
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and stakeholders
- Strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and problem-solving
- Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of working with minimal supervision, demonstrating a high level of independence and initiative in tackling complex problems
What the job involves
- We are hiring a world-class data scientist to shape both our user-facing and business-facing products at You.com
- Your expertise in quantitative modeling, experimentation, and algorithms will be essential in tackling some of the company’s most complex engineering challenges
- You will collaborate with diverse cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Data Engineering to address a wide range of product and business problems
- The ideal candidate will take pride in their dual expertise as a software engineer and data scientist, leading end-to-end projects to understand user behavior and drive growth
- As an early member of our data science team, your contributions will be crucial in elevating our product development and bringing scientific rigor into real-world AI applications that impact hundreds of millions of users worldwide
- Join us in shaping the future of AI technology and making a global difference!
- Define and implement the next generation of data and analytics for a fast-growing Generative AI product
- Work with large datasets to extract insights, build predictive models, and optimize AI algorithms
- Partner cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and engineering to align on goals and deliverables
- Drive the development of innovative strategies to enhance user engagement, satisfaction, and revenue
- Create and track success metrics. Identify the right measures of success for product teams and own the full lifecycle of those metrics from logging requirements, metrics definition, prototype pipelines, and improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and execute A/B tests, identify impactful business questions, conduct deep-dive analysis, and communicate findings and actionable recommendations to audiences at all levels to drive data-driven decisions
Our take
Google has maintained its status as a household name for online search engines since the '90s. Since then, however, it has become rife with sponsored advertisements, privacy issues, and one-size-fits-all search results, showing a vast area of space for improvement.
You.com provides a privacy-first personalized search engine, allowing users to integrate apps and personal preferences into the browser extension to optimize their search results based on what they are looking for. The search engine also guarantees that search history and cookies will not be logged by the company, in addition to preventing websites and advertisers from tracking browsing habits.
Whilst the company's competition from the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine giants is fierce, You.com shows great potential having served 1B queries and boasting millions of active users. With a 500% increase in ARR since January 2024 and a recent $560M Series B Funding round, the company is rapidly scaling, becoming a rising player in the AI and search space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$2.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $97.9m
Company benefits
- A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
- Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
- Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
- 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
- $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
- $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
- In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
- Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Richard Socher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Chief Scientist of EVP for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020. Founder of AIX ventures since 2021.
Bryan McCann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Course Assistant at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. Lead Research Scientist for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020.
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