Staff Research Scientist: Personalization & User Modeling

Snap Inc.; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 229,000 - 343,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to advance user modeling and personalization for Snapchat experiences. You will lead research in generative modeling, information retrieval, and large-scale recommender systems, while partnering with engineering to translate insights into impactful products.

The role emphasizes building scalable prototypes, mentoring interns and junior researchers, and publishing results at premier conferences, with strong collaboration across the research team.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in machine learning, IR, personalization, and language/modeling
• Track record leading challenging research projects
• Experience with distributed ML training and inference

Responsibilities

• Formulate and drive a research agenda in user modeling and personalization
• Collaborate with engineering to translate research into real-world ML applications
• Build scalable prototypes and evaluate in large-scale scenarios
• Share expertise with teammates and interns
• Publish findings at top conferences

Skills

ML knowledge

Information retrieval

Personalization

Language modeling

Python

PyTorch

Mentoring interns

Education

PhD in CS/ML/Language technologies or related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to advance user modeling and personalization for Snapchat experiences. You will lead research in generative modeling, information retrieval, and large-scale recommender systems, while partnering with engineering to translate insights into impactful products.

The role emphasizes building scalable prototypes, mentoring interns and junior researchers, and publishing results at premier conferences, with strong collaboration across the research team.