Data Scientist

Universal Studios; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Conference budgets

Internal advancement

Job summary

Universal Studios in Memphis, TN is hiring a Data Scientist to own essential work that keeps professionalism fast and unobtrusive. The role emphasizes ownership, salary range $70,000 - $100,000, and a structured contract schedule.

You will tackle feature engineering, mentor peers, apply MLOps practices, and reduce technical debt while building tooling to accelerate the team. Strong communication and collaboration are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of real-world data science experience with measurable impact.
• Hands-on feature engineering and MLops exposure.
• Ability to mentor engineers and review code.
• Strong communication and collaboration in cross-functional teams.
• Experience tuning queries and optimizing data workflows.

Responsibilities

• Tune feature engineering queries to reduce timeouts in the TN database.
• Mentor juniors and contribute to a strong code-review culture.
• Apply feature engineering and MLOps to solve engineering challenges.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Build MLOps tooling to speed up Memphis engineers.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Experience (3+ years)

Feature Engineering

Team Collaboration

Professional Dissent Communication

Tools

Apache Spark

Job description

We're hiring a Data Scientist for the unglamorous, essential work of making Professionalism fast enough that nobody notices it at all. What anchors this Memphis job is ownership; the $70,000 - $100,000, the contract hours, the 4-year ask all hang off that.

Key Responsibilities

• Tune Feature Engineering queries until the TN database stops timing out under load
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Apply Feature Engineering and MLOps to solve human-first engineering challenges
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Build the MLOps tooling that makes every other Memphis engineer faster

What You'll Bring

• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Judgment seasoned by at least 3 years of real consequences
• Hands-on command of Feature Engineering, with Apache Spark as a close second
• Ability to thrive both independently and as part of a tight-knit team
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal

At Universal Studios, our mission is to make technology simpler, faster, and more accessible for everyone in Memphis, TN and beyond. At Universal Studios you're trusted with the why, not just handed the what.

You’ll be supported by $70,000 - $100,000, strong health coverage, conference budgets, and a team that promotes from within.