Senior ML Data Scientist - Personalization & Recommendations

Unchain Data; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Catered meals

Job summary

Robinhood seeks a Senior Data Scientist, ML to lead the development of personalized recommendation systems for prediction markets. You will partner with product, engineering, and data science teams to design modeling approaches and deploy production-ready solutions that enhance customer engagement.

Based in our US offices, the role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python and SQL, experimentation and causal inference, and ownership from concept to implementation. In-person collaboration is valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building recommendation systems in customer-facing products.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with strong experience with machine learning systems and production modeling.
• Experience with experimentation methods and causal inference to evaluate model performance.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration with product, engineering, and data science partners.
• Demonstrated ownership by driving projects from concept through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve recommendation system algorithms to personalize customer experiences across prediction markets and other product surfaces.
• Partner with product managers to identify areas for personalization and define measurable success criteria.
• Develop features and models that improve relevance and user interaction with our prediction markets offerings.
• Collaborate with software and machine learning engineers to design and implement scalable feature pipelines and the ranking systems.
• Design and run experiments to evaluate model performance and measure incremental impact on customer engagement.

Skills

Python

SQL

Recommendation systems

Experimentation

Causal inference

Communication

Ownership

Machine Learning systems

Tools

Machine Learning systems

Job description

Robinhood seeks a Senior Data Scientist, ML to lead the development of personalized recommendation systems for prediction markets. You will partner with product, engineering, and data science teams to design modeling approaches and deploy production-ready solutions that enhance customer engagement.

Based in our US offices, the role emphasizes hands-on coding in Python and SQL, experimentation and causal inference, and ownership from concept to implementation. In-person collaboration is valued.