Senior Causal Inference Data Scientist

Roku; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 330,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity awards

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Roku is seeking a Senior Research Data Scientist to lead a best-in-class causal inference platform measuring incremental impact of actions, features, and interventions on long-term outcomes. You will own the full lifecycle—from requirements to productionized pipelines—and communicate findings to senior leadership.

The role blends rigorous research with production engineering to inform growth, retention, and monetization strategy across the platform, ideal for an applied economist or

Qualifications

• PhD in Economics, Econometrics, Statistics or related field with strong causal focus.
• 10+ years applying causal inference and ML to real-world problems.
• Experience with observational methods and heterogeneous effects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and productionize a causal inference platform.
• Research and implement causal estimation methods for Roku data.
• Build long-term outcome frameworks for projections from limited windows.
• Develop validation standards to ensure credibility of estimates.
• Leverage AI to create counterfactual scenarios and tools for users.
• Collaborate with Data Eng, PM, and Core Analytics to deploy solutions.
• Contribute to the data science vision across causal inference and experimentation.

Skills

Causal inference

Machine learning

Communication skills

Distributed computing

Python

SQL

Spark

Ray

scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

Education

PhD in Economics

Econometrics

Statistics

Job description

Roku is seeking a Senior Research Data Scientist to lead a best-in-class causal inference platform measuring incremental impact of actions, features, and interventions on long-term outcomes. You will own the full lifecycle—from requirements to productionized pipelines—and communicate findings to senior leadership.

The role blends rigorous research with production engineering to inform growth, retention, and monetization strategy across the platform, ideal for an applied economist or