Data Scientist II — NLP & ML at Scale (Flexible)

Scribd, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 97,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex

Health coverage

Paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement matching

Learning & development

Wellness stipend

Product access

AI tools access

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist II to design and deploy AI/ML systems at scale in Phoenix, AZ. You will work with cross-functional teams including ML Engineers and Data Engineers to build models using massive data, language models, and production-ready pipelines.

The role emphasizes end-to-end visibility, simplicity in solutions, and collaboration to deliver high-impact results across content enrichment, recommendations, search, and translation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of post-qualification experience developing ML models.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Databricks.
• Experience with NLP, search, information retrieval, or generative models.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy ML models at scale.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers and Product teams.
• Work with PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and third-party LLM APIs.
• Process large data volumes with Python, SQL, and Spark.
• Communicate approaches and results with stakeholders; document projects.

Skills

Python

Spark

NLP

SQL

Education

Bachelors or Masters in quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist II to design and deploy AI/ML systems at scale in Phoenix, AZ. You will work with cross-functional teams including ML Engineers and Data Engineers to build models using massive data, language models, and production-ready pipelines.

The role emphasizes end-to-end visibility, simplicity in solutions, and collaboration to deliver high-impact results across content enrichment, recommendations, search, and translation.