Senior Data Scientist - AI & Ad Tech

Comcast; Buffalo, City of Niagara Falls (NY, NY); On-site; USD 118,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Audience & AI group within the Revenue Science engineering team in New York. You will support product development with data analyses, AI, machine learning, and statistical modeling to advance ad tech products.

Collaborate with engineering and product management, build scalable ETL pipelines, develop predictive models, and visualize insights with Looker/Tableau.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field; advanced degree preferred.
• At least 2 years of Python and SQL experience.
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, Snowflake; cloud/on‑prem a plus.
• Familiarity with AI platforms and LLMs is beneficial.
• Strong data wrangling and ETL skills; ML model development.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Interest in advertising technology.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define data questions and run experiments for product improvements.
• Engineer algorithms, software, and automated processes for data integration and cleansing from multiple sources.
• Apply statistical rigor and data science methods to large datasets; develop predictive models.
• Develop ad‑tech solutions leveraging statistical models and ML methods.
• Research new technologies and analytical methods to improve outputs.
• Create advanced data visualizations to provide key insights.
• Work independently and on multiple projects within a broader team.
• Architect data mining models to derive customer and product insights.
• Deploy predictive analytics to anticipate customer behavior and support decisions.
• Synthesize forecasts and strategic recommendations from data science work.
• Advance decision making by applying novel data science techniques.
• Maintain consistent, reliable performance and meet deadlines.

Skills

Python

SQL

ML/Modeling

ETL pipelines

Advertising tech interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

LangChain

LangGraph

Looker

Tableau

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Audience & AI group within the Revenue Science engineering team in New York. You will support product development with data analyses, AI, machine learning, and statistical modeling to advance ad tech products.

Collaborate with engineering and product management, build scalable ETL pipelines, develop predictive models, and visualize insights with Looker/Tableau.