Principal Data Scientist, Rec Room
Machine Learning
Platform for building and playing games together
Job no longer available
Platform for building and playing games together
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide gaming lovers with amazing immersive social, multiplayer, VR, and AR experiences.
Role
Who you are
- Master's or Ph.D. degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related field
- 10+ years of ML experience in a production setting, with extensive experience working on ranking/recommendations
- Experience with recommendations, ranking, personalization, search, and/or content discovery
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL
- Deep familiarity with ML infrastructure to collaborate with our infra team
- Extensive experience with experimentation
- Dbt knowledge is a plus
- Spark/Databricks knowledge is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Principal Machine Learning Data Scientist, you’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing machine learning models to power our in-game store recommendations and serve users content that they’d find valuable
- You’ll be supporting creators in making a living on the platform, as well as playing a critical role in the success of Rec Room as a business
- Design, develop and implement production-facing ML models to deliver valuable commerce content to our users
- Collaborate closely with the ML Infra team to define a roadmap that powers real-time personalized ranking models
- Design and run A/B tests, analyze model performance, and deep dive into the data to uncover opportunities for improvements
- Build out pipelines in collaboration with our Analytics Engineering team to enable model building on top of sophisticated features
- Set best practices, mentor, and provide guidance to the more junior Data Scientists
Our take
Originally launched as a social hangout for virtual-reality headset users, Rec Room follows in the footsteps of gaming giants Roblox, offering a blend of gaming, social media, and user-generated content. With a teenage target market that is slightly older than Roblox, Rec Room now boasts around 29 million active users.
Like its closest rival, Rec Room also puts an emphasis on content creation, allowing users to create their own virtual rooms and games, and share them with the community. However, whilst other companies have relied on platforms like Facebook to initiate the social aspect of the gaming experience, Rec Room has independently provided a variety of social experiences for both novices and experienced gamers.
The company has recently seen both its user-base and valuation grow exponentially, with the considerable funding raised by the company cited to expand operations and business reach. Rec Room also has aims to experiment with changing avatars to add more personalization, for instance by adding feet, and is investigating further brand partnerships in apparel, music, and other categories, as well as more "game-adjacent" content.
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Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$145m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $294m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Culture - As a workplace, we're a fun, supportive, high trust culture and offer 100% remote or hybrid opportunities out of our Seattle office. We provide work from home office equipment, support, and furniture reimbursements
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - We want you to be the best version of yourself. We offer unlimited PTO to give our team members the time they need, when they need it
- 401K - Rec Room offers a competitive 401k package with 100% employer matching up to 6%
- Health and Wellness - We offer premium benefits including: Medical, Dental, Orthodontics, Vision, Paid Parental Leave, Life Insurance, Long Term/Short Term Disability, FSA, Family Care, and EAP
- Career Growth and Mentorship - We are growing fast and we make it a priority to invest in the growth and career development of our folks through educational opportunities and mentorship
- Equity - Become a stakeholder in one of Seattle's most exciting Unicorns! We are a privately held company and offer competitive stock options
Company HQ
Uptown, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Nick Fajt
(CEO & Co-Founder)They studied at Cornell before working at Microsoft HoloLens, in roles including Principal Program Manager.
Cameron Brown
(CCO & Co-Founder)They started their career at Beam Software before roles at Auran, Pandemic Studios, and EA. They also spent 4 years at Microsoft Creative Studios.
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