Netflix, Inc.
10001+ employees
Entertainment
Internet
Media Production
Technology
About Netflix, Inc.
Netflix, Inc. is a leading global streaming entertainment service that offers a wide variety of TV series, documentaries, feature films, and mobile games across numerous genres and languages. Founded in 1997, Netflix revolutionized the entertainment industry by pioneering subscription-based streaming and original content production. The company’s mission is to entertain the world by providing high-quality, diverse content accessible anytime and anywhere. Netflix operates worldwide, continuously expanding its content library and technological capabilities to enhance user experience and maintain its position as a dominant player in the digital entertainment market.
5 months ago
Research Scientist (L5) - Content Understanding
Full-time
Mid Level
Research Scientist (L5) - Content Understanding
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Description
- Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages.
- Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.
- The goal of our Content Management & Distribution Data Science and Engineering team is to enable operational and creative excellence in the distribution and promotion of our content on our service.
- We collaborate closely with our partners in the Product Discovery & Promotion organization, and our work directly contributes to launching high-quality content on our service and helps our members discover content they will love.
- We conduct analyses, build analytical tools, and develop models to help our partners execute on these primary objectives.
- We are looking for a talented Research Scientist to join our Merchandising & Content Understanding pod, which focuses on deepening our content metadata across all formats and improving the discovery experience on our service.
- You will design and develop models and conduct quality evaluations for algorithms that will power the next generation of capabilities for our business.
- You will partner with our world-class team of creative production practitioners and various cross-functional teams to shape strategy and deliver impact via machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders in Product Discovery & Promotion to learn deeply about content metadata and merchandising and identify potentially impactful problems to solve via scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions.
- Develop innovative systems and models that empower decision-making for stakeholders and product features that can deliver member joy by leveraging a wide variety of metadata and production media generated by and collected from our productions throughout their end-to-end lifecycle.
- Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to operationalize your models so that they can be integrated seamlessly into operational workflows.
- Serve as a key thought partner for stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and our diverse set of team members regarding machine learning algorithms and system architectures.
- The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. or MS degree in a quantitative or computational field, 4+ years of relevant experience, practical expertise in supervised, unsupervised, and deep machine learning methods, and experience applying machine learning and Gen AI solutions to video, audio, and textual data sources.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work in ambiguous problem spaces are essential.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary with no bonuses, with options to choose salary versus stock options
- Inclusion and diversity initiatives
- Equal opportunity employer
- Remote work flexibility