Research Scientist L4/l5 Algorithms Engineering jobs at Netflix

In this role, you will:

• Design and develop systems and reusable frameworks for the full cycle of ML/AI R&D in the multimedia domain, including data processing, efficient distributed model training with GPUs, and deploying models into creator workflows and production systems.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with research scientists, product managers, and creative and business partners to define and prioritize system requirements.

• Work closely with ML/CV/Graphics researchers and Studio teams to productionize algorithms and models, and efficiently run human-in-the-loop inference tasks.

• Participate in model development and propose scalable designs.

• Champion and facilitate software engineering best practices within the team.

About you:

• Proven experience in software engineering within a production environment, including proficiency in object-oriented programming (Python, Java, or C++), CI/CD, etc.

• Familiarity with ML, CV, GenAI, and/or graphics pipelines, and experience with distributed data processing systems.

• Proficient in cloud infrastructure, including S3, Docker containers.

• Basic understanding of (multi) GPU training and inference for debugging and performance assessment, and CUDA runtime.

• Passionate about transforming ideas into products and enhancing user experience.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong ability to navigate ambiguity.

Bonus experience:

• Experience building end-to-end multimedia systems and algorithms.

• Deep experience with AWS and understanding of FSx.

• Proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.

• Experience in the content creation domain, such as visual effects or animation.

• Familiarity with generative models and tools, such as diffusion-based models and ComfyUI.

• Knowledge of graphics and VFX tools and/or game engines, such as Unreal, Houdini, or Nuke.

$150,000 - $750,000

Key Responsibilities

• Audience Analysis & Presentation:Utilize proprietary and syndicated tools to analyze and present Netflix's audience data, effectively communicating insights to the marketplace and advertiser clients.

• Support for Advertising Sales:Assist the Advertising Sales team with research and analytics, including audience data, cultural insights, campaign metrics, and campaign measurement solutions.

• Industry & Trend Analysis:Conduct research and analysis on industries, companies, business models, and marketing strategies across key advertiser verticals such as CPG, Retail, Tech, and Telecom to generate market-facing insights on current and emerging trends.

• Stakeholder Communication:Maintain effective communication with stakeholders by setting clear timelines and next steps, ensuring timely delivery of project objectives.

• Campaign Insights & Optimization:Integrate campaign measurement results to develop compelling narratives, present insights to clients and agencies, and provide guidance on how to shift their investments to Netflix.

• Causal Testing & Research Design:Design and execute advanced causal tests for Brand Effectiveness and Incremental Lift, along with quantitative and qualitative research on audiences, industries, and content.

• In-Depth Analysis & Insight Generation:Conduct thorough analyses of measurement outputs to deliver comprehensive and actionable insights.

• Learning Agendas & Playbooks Development:Contribute to the creation of advertiser and category-specific learning agendas and playbooks, incorporating innovative approaches.

• Case Study Development:Develop case studies based on ongoing and completed analyses to highlight successful strategies and outcomes.

Experience & Skills

• 4-6 years at a Streaming, TV, digital media company, or media / digital agency.

• Understanding of quantitative and qualitative methodologies within the advertising landscape.

• Experience in research methods and data analysis - 1st party data, customer research, qualitative and quantitative studies.

• Strong understanding of methodology, data, and systems from syndicated research providers (e.g. Nielsen Ibope, HR Media, GWI, TGI, comScore).

• Understanding of local video audience measurement systems.

• Understanding of the competitive streaming and TV marketplace.

• Intermediate understanding of digital media ad sales and marketplaces including Direct IO & Programmatic advertising.

• Self-starter and self-motivated with strong communication skills and expertise in managing larger-scale, complex projects.

• Expertise in advanced measurement methodologies is desirable (Reach & Frequency, Incremental lift, Brand lift, Matched-Market testing, Multi-Cell testing, A/B testing, Marketing Mix Models and bespoke campaign effectiveness studies).

• Comfort in analyzing large and disparate data sets to generate strategic and actionable insights.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint & Data visualization tools (Tableau is desirable).

• Familiarity with Google Docs is desirable.

• Familiarity with concepts of database design and SQL is desirable.

• Able to communicate effectively in English

You will excel if you are comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with innovation, can deliver scalable technical solutions, remove technical debts, think strategically, make decisions for long term effectiveness and are curious.

• Drive new technical solutions across teams, in a multi-disciplinary manner from requirements to applications deployment

• Actively work with product managers and our design team to scope and shape product decisions.

• Revamp and update existing web applications with new paved path solution

• Focus on streamlining user experience with simplicity

• Enhance and maintain existing applications to meet the needs of our partners and internal stakeholders

• Operate in a cross-functional dynamic environment where you will collaborate and learn from stunning colleagues with different roles and expertise to achieve common goal to bring #NetflixEverywhere

• Proven experience in a software development role

• Strong full-stack development skills with strength in front-end UI work:

  • Deep experience with React & GraphQL

  • Strong skills in HTML/CSS

  • Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools

  • Strong programming skills in JavasScript/Typescript. Experience with Java & Node.js.

  • Experience with at least several UI frameworks

• Ability to innovate through iteration; using prototypes and experiments to navigate solution ambiguity and passionate about data insight

• Proven ability to operate and troubleshoot complex systems crafted with microservice architecture

• Experience maintaining and improving legacy systems. Can evaluate and speak to tradeoffs concerning refactor vs rebuild vs buy.

• Ability to learn and use in-house software framework/components/service to build solutions effectively

• Outstanding communicators who are curious, flexible, and selfless

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

Key responsibilities:

• Analyze, evaluate, and improve the functionality and performance of HR systems, including HR management software, applicant tracking systems, and employee self-service portals.

• Collaborate with Talent stakeholders to evaluate HR workflows and system requirements, and identify areas for improvement.

• Design and implement system enhancements, configurations, and customizations through system updates, testing, and troubleshooting, ensuring they meet the needs of the stakeholders

• Provide technical support and training to end-users, ensuring proper system usage and resolving any system-related issues.

• Develop and maintain HR system documentation, including user manuals, process maps, system configurations, and training materials.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as HR Tech and talent, to implement system integrations and data migrations.

• Monitor system performance, data integrity, and security, identifying and addressing potential risks or issues proactively.

• Manage system projects from conception to completion, including planning, testing, implementation, and post-implementation support.

• Collaborate with HR stakeholders to analyze and report on HR data and metrics, providing insights and recommendations for process improvements.

Experience:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex HR processes and translate them into system requirements.

• Proficiency in HR systems and software, such as HR management systems, applicant tracking systems, and payroll systems.

• Solid understanding of HR processes, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee data management, and benefits administration.

• Technical expertise in system configuration, customization, and troubleshooting, with knowledge of programming languages and database management.

• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting, using tools such as Excel, Power BI, or similar platforms.

Required Qualifications

• 5 -7 years of hands-on experience in Information Technology, Human Resources, or a related field.

• Prior experience as an HR/Business System Analyst or similar role, with a strong grasp of HR processes and systems.

• Certification or relevant training in HR systems; Workday is preferred.

• Familiarity with project management methodologies and tools, as well as lean and agile methodologies.

• Experience in system implementation and support, including system testing and end-user training.

• Strong understanding of data privacy and security regulations related to HR systems.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $80,000 - $280,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

• Design and build scalable infrastructure solutions to enable reliable and secure access to source code, build artifacts and continuous integration.

• Develop software solutions to integrate with existing infrastructure to enhance and extend existing capabilities.

• Evolve and improve logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting and dashboarding tools to enable improved insight into our infrastructure.

• Collaborate with various other Platform teams to ensure their systems can integrate with the development infrastructure.

• Automate the deployment and upgrading of third-party solutions in order to keep them up-to-date seamlessly.

• Support customers with a variety of source control, build and environment needs.

• Support cross-organization critical change campaigns across a wide variety of source code repositories.

• Engage with vendors on license management and support issues and deliver feedback on product improvements to increase Netflix developer productivity.

• Participate in product reviews and team meetings, providing technical insight. Help scope, estimate, and prioritize between conflicting needs.

• Evaluate new technologies and approaches to streamline and improve our rapid application development tooling and conventions.

• Develop and execute disaster recovery planning and preparedness.

• Work with our security team on long-term security initiatives and promptly respond to security incidents.

• Regularly learn new systems and tools as the Netflix platform and ecosystem evolve.

• Participate in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews.
  

• You are self-driven and highly motivated to deliver top-tier solutions with minimal guidance. You also recognize when you're wrong, learning from your mistakes and moving past them.

• You look beyond short-term fixes in favor of long-term solutions, make wise decisions despite ambiguity, and use data to inform your intuition.

• You enjoy collaborating and pairing with engineers to understand what they want, figure out what they really need, and finally, what we should build.

• You strive to embrace best practices and are always searching for opportunities to continually improve.
  

• You have experience operating third-party software at scale on a major cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• You have experience with programming languages like Java, Python or Golang.

• You are comfortable scripting solutions using languages like Python or Bash.

• You have experience operating source control management systems in a cloud environment, like GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) or Atlassian Bitbucket.

• You have experience operating an artifact management system like JFrog Artifactory in a cloud environment like AWS.

• You have experience with monitoring and alerting systems and how to integrate them with existing solutions.

• You are experienced with relational and non-relational data stores.

Our culture is unique, and we live by our values, so it’s worth learning more about

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000- $720,000.

| RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a high-responsibility service owner for a broad range of enterprise applications

• Relentlessly pursue improvements, with a keen eye for how engineering solutions reduce toil and eliminate manual tasks

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support our services

• Develop, test, and deploy API integrations with other platforms and web services

• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address potential issues

• Partner closely with our Product Management and Netflix Technology Experience teams to identify support-enabling tools (i.e. self-service tools to help our Support teams scale)

• Administer, manage, and configure a variety of internal tools and SaaS applications such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Zendesk

• Partner with existing internal customer teams to assess opportunities for improvement, workflow efficiencies, and engineering solutions

| WE VALUE

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions

• Passion for engineering principles and developing tools and applications for impact with high quality

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment where needs shift and clearly articulate priorities and critical outcomes to your team

• Demonstrated sound judgment by taking a strategic approach to solving technical problems with a holistic view of the business impact

• Collaboration and continuous improvement are fundamental to growing the team’s impact over time

• A desire to learn and readiness to mentor others both within and outside of the team

| SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or in a similar role

• Strong scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Java or JavaScript/)

• Expertise administering and developing solutions for enterprise software platforms like Slack & Google Workspace

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, microservices architecture

• Experience with low-code/no-code development platforms like Workato and Okta Workflows

• Experience with incident management and response

• Experience with employee onboarding and offboarding workflows

• Excellent communication & collaboration skills and a continuous improvement mindset

• Proven ability to cultivate relationships through influence

• Proven ability to assess complex issues and implement effective solutions

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $700,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

The Technology Research Group is on a mission to

As the Technology Research Group Senior Design Technologist, you will identify and propose solutions for a diverse set of challenges across the company and act as a cross-functional bridge within Games Experience Engineering and outside stakeholders and partners. At times, you will drive design implementation for new prototypes using experimental tech stacks, including actively scripting (throw-away prototype code). In other cases, you give the appropriate support, collaboration, ideation, and feedback to the designated design leader of a project so they can communicate the value-add to leadership.

• Be a part of Technology Research Group staff to help shape organizational, partner, and technical strategy.

• Design and create prototypes that serve as a proof of concept for technical research. These prototypes need to be the communication piece that explains the member’s user experience interfacing with the experimental tech stack.

• Invent new UX paradigms that will help drive innovation across the organization.

• Partner with Product, XD, Internal Games, External Games, and Games Experience Engineering to advocate for significant technical design investments that will set us up for success for years to come.

• Dive deep and understand problems across the significant investments within Netflix Games, from the internal studios, transmedia, external studios, product, and engineering teams.

• Product-minded IC that ensures technical design direction is compatible with product and content direction and vice versa.

• Collaborate with ICs in other organizations (Content, Transmedia, Product, XD, Data & Insights, Internal Game Studios) to advocate for holistic solutions to balance Gaming and Netflix concerns.

You may be a good match for this role if you;

• At least 10 years of game development experience with projects shipped utilizing R&D outcomes.

• Convey complex design concepts to stakeholders, driving conversations and decisions through written and/or verbal communication.

• Can work with senior leadership to develop a long-term technical strategy and map business goals to appropriate design investments.

• Have a proven track record in designing, building, and operating experimental systems that highlight and communicate the cool factor of sometimes esoteric technical stacks.

• Experience working with cloud gaming platforms and WebRTC technologies.

• Comfortable working in Unreal Engine, Unity3D, & Defold game engines. Preferably with shipped commercial projects.

• Comfortable working across multiple gaming platforms, including web, mobile, and console. Bonus points if you have experience working with custom hardware experiences.

• Deep experience working in prototype hardware environments, including controllers and nonstandard controller UX.

• You have deep technical art skills, visual effects, UI, UX, (C#, JS, UE C++.Blueprints).

• Are comfortable with ambiguous and fast-paced technical environments that require prototyping, experimenting, and iterating (including throwing away code) to get to product market fit.

• Can rapidly design, document, and implement new UI/UX schemas.

• You are deeply technical with success in setting the design direction for engineering projects, making strategic design decisions, and influencing cross-functional teams.

• Are strongly motivated to learn new domains and expand your current scope.

• Are curious about discovering innovative ways to solve problems.

• Are self-driven and highly motivated to deliver critical-tiered solutions.

• Are passionate about guiding, managing, and mentoring stunning colleagues.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top-of-market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.