Lead Research Scientist - Personalization & Recommender

SNAP, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Research Scientist for its User Modeling and Personalization Research Team. The role focuses on modeling user behavior to deliver personalized experiences across Snapchat.

You will lead projects in generative modeling, recommender systems, and information retrieval, and mentor junior researchers while collaborating with engineers to deploy the results at scale. The position emphasizes hands-on prototyping over theory, strong ML fundamentals, and a track record of

Qualifications

• PhD in a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong familiarity with PyTorch and multi-node, multi-GPU training.
• Experience applying language models to generation, search or personalization.

Responsibilities

• Lead research projects in user modeling and personalization.
• Build scalable prototypes and evaluate in large-scale ML settings.
• Mentor interns, students and junior researchers.
• Publish findings at top conferences.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy tech at scale.

Skills

Machine learning

Information retrieval

Problem solving

Python

PyTorch

Mentoring

Education

PhD in CS/ML/math

Tools

Distributed training

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Research Scientist for its User Modeling and Personalization Research Team. The role focuses on modeling user behavior to deliver personalized experiences across Snapchat.

You will lead projects in generative modeling, recommender systems, and information retrieval, and mentor junior researchers while collaborating with engineers to deploy the results at scale. The position emphasizes hands-on prototyping over theory, strong ML fundamentals, and a track record of