Data Scientist: Frontier AI for Media Insights

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

IMDb in Seattle is seeking a data scientist to frame loosely defined business problems as science problems and select methods that fit the data and question. You will own ground truth design, evaluation, and prove the model moved the targeted metric end-to-end.

Success requires leadership, software excellence, product vision, and responsible AI expertise, with collaboration across product managers, policy partners, and operations.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 3+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
• Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem‑solving

Responsibilities

• Frame loosely defined business problems as science problems, and iterate on the approach with limited guidance.
• Establish ground truth. Design the sampling, set the label quality bar, and build datasets across behavioral, text, and catalog domains.
• Define precision, recall, and coverage, and report what accuracy is achievable at what cost.
• Document failure modes, quantify the cost of each error type, and set thresholds with product and policy partners before deployment.
• Deliver methodology and analysis on medium-size projects, written so other scientists and business partners can both act on the results.
• Decide whether to train in‑house, fine‑tune, or call a language model, and make that call on evidence.
• Use generative AI tooling to scale your own throughput rather than only to build products.
• Ship solutions another scientist can test and reproduce.
• Partner with engineers to move models into production, then define drift monitoring and retraining triggers.
• Build deep knowledge of what the team owns, and mentor teammates on method choice.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistical modeling

Communication

Machine learning concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

R

SAS

Matlab

Job description

IMDb in Seattle is seeking a data scientist to frame loosely defined business problems as science problems and select methods that fit the data and question. You will own ground truth design, evaluation, and prove the model moved the targeted metric end-to-end.

Success requires leadership, software excellence, product vision, and responsible AI expertise, with collaboration across product managers, policy partners, and operations.