Applied Scientist

Applied Scientist

Twitch is the world's biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We are looking for an Applied Scientist to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of recommendations, search, ranking, and information retrieval. As an Applied Scientist on Twitch's Community team, you will use ML to help viewers find streamers and communities they'll love. You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and put them into production, where they can help Twitch's creators and viewers succeed and build communities.

You will report to the Applied Science Manager on the Community Discovery Team. You can work in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.

You will:

• Develop ML algorithms for recommendations, ranking, and search problems that can improve discovery on Twitch.
• Collaborate with senior scientists and engineers to deploy ML code in production.
• Collaborate with our Product and Engineering teams to work backwards from customer discovery problems, in order to determine the ML solution (algorithm and pipeline) that will have the biggest impact on our user base in the real world.
• Participate in the scientific community at Twitch, Amazon, and the broader ML and risk community.

Perks:

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount