Research Scientist

Location: Carlsbad, California OR Fully Remote

About the Opportunity: 

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team and drive research and development efforts for our News Platform and systems that evaluate the quality of documents and detect misinformation. 

From your first day, you will make a valuable — and valued — contribution. We are a fast-growing company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of consumers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines. 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Partner with product managers, machine learning scientists and engineers to formalize appropriate research questions that are relevant to our News Platform. 
• Conduct independent research, perform extensive literature reviews, sort through prior published work to find potential solutions. 
• Design experiments and lead data collection efforts. 
• Work with substantial amounts of text data and leverage statistical and machine learning methods. 
• Communicate and transfer solutions to production together with scientists and engineers.  
• Communicate ideas, methods, opportunities, and results to cross functional partners. 

Skills and Qualifications: 

• Graduate degree (PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Computational Social Sciences, or other quantitative fields. 
• 3+ years of professional experience or equivalent experience in a research lab. Recent PhD graduates are especially encouraged. 
• Broad experience with various applications of NLP (part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, entity recognition and extraction etc.) 
• Broad experience in machine learning and statistical methods, in at least one of the following areas: experimental design, causal inference, machine learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning.  
• End-to-end experience in research projects, including study design, simulation/testing, data cleaning, data analysis, and reporting. 
• Proficient with Python or R. 
• Experience with Spark, PySpark. 
• Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication. 

The following experience is a plus: 

• Experience in the news domain (fact checking, detecting misinformation etc.) and knowledge of journalistic principles highly desired. 
• Experience in computational journalism is highly desired. 
• Publication track record is a big plus! 

The US base salary range for this role is between $180,000 and $220,000 annualized plus bonus, equity value (where applicable) and benefits. Your base pay will depend on your experience, location, skills and qualifications.