Staff Data Scientist, DuckDuckGo
$222k
Salary in US currency, may vary in other locations + Stock options
More information about location
Privacy Protection
Posted today
Privacy Protection
201-500 employees
Posted today
$222k
Salary in US currency, may vary in other locations + Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To show the world that protecting privacy is simple.
Role
Who you are
- You have 10+ years of experience in Data Science, with 2+ years at Staff, Principal, or Director level, and a track record of leading high-complexity projects from scoping to production with minimal direction
- You are comfortable advising others on complex data science work
- You can develop strategies for ambiguous, complex data science problems and turn them into a series of well-defined projects
- You have hands-on experience deploying ML in production, developing NLP solutions, and in AI-assisted development
- You write production-grade code in Python or a comparable high-level language
- You have advanced SQL and query optimization skills
- You collaborate effectively with product teams and contribute to overall team throughput
- You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
Desirable
- Running search-specific projects (ranking, retrieval, or indexing) from scoping to production
- Working with large-scale search infrastructure (e.g. Vespa, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr)
What the job involves
- Working on the Data Science Functional Team, you'll drive product and business impact through improving our search engine ranking and results. Recent projects include:
- Improving first-phase ranking quality and precision without sacrificing latency
- Developing new lexical-matching and document-authority signals
- Expanding our search evaluations to measure relevancy readiness and surface ranking blindspots
- Investigating LLMs for feature generation and ranking
- Our data meets rigorous privacy standards and is necessarily sparse, so you'll need to think creatively to surface actionable insights in an evidence-first culture where quantitative rigor is the baseline, not the exception
- A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team
Application process
- As part of our commitment to enhancing our recruitment process, we utilize artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in reviewing and summarizing job applications and test projects, including those tools integrated into our recruitment vendor platforms
- We use AI to flag potentially fraudulent applications, analyze and summarize applicants’ experience, interviews, and project performance, and help streamline our selection process
Our take
Companies are making money off of people's private information online without their consent. DuckDuckGo believes the internet shouldn't be this invasive and that getting the privacy you deserve online should be an easily accessible option.
With the company's Privacy Essentials desktop browser extension for Safari, Firefox, & Chrome and the mobile DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS & Android, users can block trackers, secure connections, and search anonymously, so they are protected on any device anywhere.
The company's app is downloaded more than 50M times a year, and its private search engine has become the #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. DuckDuckGo's next steps include a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and its first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$59m
SERIES C
Aug 2018
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $72m
Company benefits
- Office Setup: To help you get your office set up, we reimburse up to $1,250 USD to cover the purchase of office productivity items, such as desk, chair, computer monitors, keyboards, etc
- Co-working: Should you prefer to work from a co-working space, we reimburse the cost up to $500 USD per month
- Wellness Stipend: To promote your physical and mental health, we offer a Wellness Stipend of up to $1,000 USD per year
- Learning Stipend: To promote your professional development and reinforce our culture of self-directed learning and skill-building, we offer a Learning Stipend of up to $1,250 USD per year
- Charitable Donation Matching: We match on qualified charitable donations of up to $1,000 per year
- Assistance Program: We offer counseling services provided through Workplace Options to help you and your family manage life-stressors
- Company Events: We have annual company retreats, team meetups, and optional “work-ations” where you work with colleagues in various destinations around the world. Every quarter we hold 3-day long Hack Days, during which we work on whatever we want
- Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever
- Flexible Time Off: We trust you to use good judgment to take time off as needed so that you can be your best at work. Our CEO sets a good example by taking regular vacations and encouraging the rest of the team to do the same
- Healthcare - Medical, Dental, Vision (US Only) 🇺🇸
Company values
- Building trust - By building trust, we do right by our users and our staff
- Questioning assumptions - By questioning assumptions, we reject bias and elevate the quality of our work
- Validating direction - By validating direction, we grow fast and sustainably
Company HQ
Paoli, PA
Articles
Leadership
Gabriel Weinberg
(Founder & CEO)Studied Physics at MIT. Previously co-author of Traction and Super Thinking.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at DuckDuckGo
- At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and our mission is to show the world that protecting privacy is simple. Having a diverse, inclusive, and equitable team is critical to achieving those goals
- Online privacy abuses make the Internet worse for everyone by weaponizing our personal data in ways that create exploitation, discrimination, polarization, and chilling effects, among other problems. We can't build world-class solutions to these problems without a world-class team. That is why we seek to recruit, retain, and support the continued growth of talented and high-performing people of all different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
- Our commitment to embracing diversity and empowering all team members is rooted in our core values: build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction. The willingness to validate direction by engaging in the sometimes uncomfortable process of questioning each other's assumptions and being questioned ourselves can only exist in a trusted space — an inclusive and welcoming environment — which is critical to rejecting bias and building a world-class, globally-used product
Share this job
View 6 more jobs at DuckDuckGo