About The Role
Twitch is seeking Applied Scientists to join its Community team in San Francisco. This role involves solving complex and open-ended problems in the domain of user and content safety using machine learning. As an Applied Scientist, you will develop data products to tackle issues such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will utilize a broad range of ML tools to process various types of data, including user behavior, metadata, and user-generated content like text and video.
You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and implement them in production, enhancing the safety and success of Twitch's creators and viewers.
Responsibilities
- Build machine learning products to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior such as harassment, spam, and violent or illegal content.
- Work backwards from customer problems to develop the right solution for the job, whether a classical ML model or a state-of-the-art one.
- Collaborate with Community Health's engineering and product management team to productionize your models into flexible data pipelines and ML-based services.
- Continue to learn and experiment with new techniques in ML, software engineering, or safety to better help communities on Twitch grow and stay safe.
Qualifications
- MSc Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or similar quantitative field OR 2+ years equivalent hands on experience.
- Hands-on experience with predictive modeling and analysis to solve real-world problems.
- Proficiency in building models for NLP, deep learning, bot detection, anomaly detection or in another practical ML domain.
- Proficiency with Python; basic proficiency with SQL.
Bonus Points
- Degree with a specialization in Machine Learning.
- Experience shipping your models to production.
- Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud-computing services.
- 1+ years of experience working in the safety or fraud prevention domain.
- Familiarity with Twitch, its business, and its community.
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
Twitch is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
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