Staff Data Scientist

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🕒 August 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $222k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

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DuckDuckGo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Marketing • Cybersecurity

DuckDuckGo is an independent Internet privacy company dedicated to providing users with tools that enhance their online privacy. Best known for its search engine, DuckDuckGo offers a free web browser and browser extensions for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows that include built-in privacy features such as tracker blocking, encryption, and email protection. Unlike traditional search engines and browsers that track search and browsing history, DuckDuckGo prioritizes user privacy by preventing tracking and targeted advertising. The company operates on the premise that privacy should be simple and accessible, offering a private alternative to major tech companies while remaining financially sustainable through non-invasive ads based on search results rather than personal data.

📋 Description

• Drive product and business impact by improving DuckDuckGo’s search engine ranking and results • Improve first-phase ranking quality and precision without sacrificing latency • Develop lexical-matching and document-authority signals • Expand search evaluations to measure relevancy readiness and surface ranking blindspots • Investigate LLMs for feature generation and ranking • Surface actionable insights from sparse, privacy-protected data • Lead high-complexity data science projects from scoping through production • Advise others on complex data science work • Collaborate with product teams and contribute to overall team throughput

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Data Science • 2+ years at Staff, Principal, or Director level • Track record of leading high-complexity projects from scoping to production with minimal direction • Ability to advise others on complex data science work • Ability to develop strategies for ambiguous, complex data science problems and turn them into well-defined projects • Hands-on experience deploying ML in production • Experience developing NLP solutions • Experience with AI-assisted development • Production-grade coding skills in Python or a comparable high-level language • Advanced SQL and query optimization skills • Effective collaboration with product teams • Preferred: experience running search-specific projects involving ranking, retrieval, or indexing from scoping to production • Preferred: experience with large-scale search infrastructure such as Vespa, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr • Must attend meetings on camera via video conferencing • Must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options • Company-sponsored health benefits for team members based in the United States • Paid parental leave • Office setup allowance • Co-working allowances • Flexible work arrangement with no core hours • Approximately 40-hour full-time workweek • All-hands meetup and team retreat travel opportunities