Applied Scientist - Safety ML

Twitch
Full-time
San Francisco, CA
$136,000 - $223,400 USD
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

We are looking for applied scientists to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of user and content safety. As an applied scientist on Twitch's Community team, you will use machine learning to develop data products tackling problems such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and put them into production.

Responsibilities

  • Build machine learning products to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior.
  • Work backwards from customer problems to develop the right solution.
  • Collaborate with Community Health's engineering and product management team to productionize models.
  • Continue to learn and experiment with new techniques in ML, software engineering, or safety.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of hands-on industry experience building models for NLP, deep learning, bot detection, anomaly detection or in another practical ML domain.
  • 2+ years experience writing high quality code to ship those models in production systems.
  • PhD / MSc Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or similar quantitative field OR equivalent hands on experience.
  • Expertise with: Python and SQL, modern open source ML libraries (Pytorch, Tensorflow, etc.). Familiarity with operating in AWS or similar cloud-computing services.

Benefits

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