Data Scientist, Research, YouTube

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Mid-Level Software Engineer
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3+ years of experience
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Description For Data Scientist, Research, YouTube

YouTube is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Research team, focusing on content safety and user protection. This role combines cutting-edge technology with practical impact, particularly in content moderation and youth safety. The position requires expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs).

The ideal candidate will work at the intersection of data science and content moderation, developing sophisticated sampling techniques and evaluation frameworks for GenAI and LLMs. They'll be responsible for creating scalable tools that improve content moderation efficiency while maintaining high-quality standards.

This role offers the opportunity to directly impact YouTube's safety measures, particularly focusing on protecting younger users. The position requires both technical expertise and the ability to communicate complex data science concepts to various stakeholders. You'll be part of a team that values innovation, practical problem-solving, and maintaining a balance between safety and sustainability.

YouTube's culture emphasizes giving everyone a voice and building community through shared stories. As a Data Scientist, you'll contribute to maintaining this vision while ensuring platform safety. The role combines technical challenges with meaningful impact, making it ideal for candidates who want to influence how millions of users experience YouTube.

The position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge AI technology while solving real-world problems. You'll be part of a dynamic environment that moves at the speed of culture, working with teams across YouTube to implement data-driven solutions for content moderation and user safety.

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Responsibilities For Data Scientist, Research, YouTube

  • Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer
  • Solve complex sampling problems to help us efficiently estimate rare events
  • Develop scalable, investigative and interpretable tooling for faster iteration on LLM-as-Raters models for content moderation
  • Balance safety and sustainability, help/drive decisions to improve efficient use of machine labels for detection and their quality
  • Understand and measure improvements of safety efforts for Youth on YouTube

Requirements For Data Scientist, Research, YouTube

Python
  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree
  • Experience in statistical analysis, data science techniques and frameworks, SQL, Python or R

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