דרושים Data Scientist L5 - Games Discovery Research ב-Netflix ב-United States, California

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

• 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.

Responsibilities:

• Based in our Hollywood office, reporting to the management team in Content Accounting.

• Part of the team responsible for the financial integrity of the company's content commitments, assets (capitalization), liabilities (payments), and expenses (amortization).

• Prepare and review monthly accounting entries, reconciliations, CFO metrics, and other ad hoc analyses.

• Management and accounting (in proprietary systems) of content license contracts and understanding the full cost of each produced show, with a focus on ensuring appropriate accounting by researching guidance.

• Analyze content agreements and transactions (e.g. licensing contracts, talent deals, etc.), to interpret contractual terms and understand the application of our accounting policies.

• Identify and drive process improvements and own projects such as accounting policy review.

• Manage cross-functional relationships with teams outside of Content Accounting, including those across finance and content acquisition organizations.

• As Netflix continues its content expansion, the accounting and operational complexities are also growing. There are new challenges we're facing, and there's plenty of fun we're having. Come be a part of it and help make a positive impact!

Qualities We’re Looking For:

• Fundamentals of Accounting: We'd like you to have 3+ years of experience under your belt, backed by a bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance. While not required, it’s preferred that you are on track for completion of (or have already completed) obtaining a CPA license or a postgraduate degree.

• Attention to detail + love for data - We pride ourselves on producing high-quality work, scrutinizing important numbers and formulas for accuracy, and using spreadsheets and system data to reconcile accounts and solve problems and questions; we like our accountants to love Excel pivot tables and be unphased by large data sets.

• Enthusiasm and quick learning - Enthusiasm for designing and building new accounting systems and making improvements to existing systems. Prior work with contract review (revenue, leases, or other complex documents), data entry and analysis, research, and other problem-solving tasks is helpful, but we understand you probably have never done content accounting. That’s OK with us because we’ll teach you as long as you’re excited about learning.

• Curiosity and passion - Our team members ask probing questions, challenge the status quo, make changes to improve processes, and have fun while doing it all; a positive attitude and never settling for “good enough” is key, along with adding to our unique company culture.

• You have strong communication skills (both written and oral) and are viewed as a strong cross-functional business partner. You should also have a strong accounting background and be comfortable navigating technical accounting guidance.

• Collaborate inclusively - Partner with team members and authentically recognize, understand, and appreciate differences, and connect across these differences by being mutually adaptive.

• Adaptable—You must be comfortable with an ever-changing ecosystem of content, finance, and accounting issues and projects.

• You embrace and advocate the Netflix culture and our long-term view.

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 $50,000 - $240,000.

• Partner closely with multi-disciplinary team members - Product Design, Content Design, Product Management, Engineering, Research, Operations, and others – to take the business to the next level;

• Work across all stages of the design process (user research, ideation, concept development, validation, workflow diagramming, prototyping, final visual design, and implementation support);

• Deeply understand users and their needs, including generative user research and exploration;

• Create beautiful, emotionally compelling, pixel-perfect mockups and prototypes of the end-to-end user experience;

• Conduct usability testing and iterate on designs with users;

• Partner with PMs to craft systematic solutions that connect the dots between user needs, data, business goals, and business strategy;

• Partner with engineers to build impactful products and features within the constraints of our technology and timeline;

• Facilitate collaborative work sessions with all levels of company stakeholders;

• Advance the discipline of product design within the organization and with partners and clients.

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise software product design;

• Track record of designing and shipping enterprise experiences that have scaled to thousands of usersand had successful outcomes for global users and the business; Ideally in the areas of GenAI or Creative Tooling

• Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and articulate a vision;

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity that brings the user, technology, and business together into an actionable roadmap;

• Experience connecting the dots across the organization with other related initiatives across the company while driving collaboration;

• Exceptional communication skills, in writing and verbally, whether in small group discussions, large-scale presentations, or with executives;

• Extraordinary thoughtfulness and craft in interaction design, visual design, and prototyping;

• Humble, collaborative approach to partnering with PMs, engineers, and business stakeholders to find the best solution together;

• Mastery of Figma’s advanced features such as Autolayout, Variables, DevMode, Responsive Prototypes, etc;

• Experience collaborating with machine learning and data science teams to influence algo design from a user-centered lens

• Experience working with off-shore development teams and a point of view on how best to collaborate with them.

• At Netflix, all roles are expected to exemplify the

• An outstanding portfolio, showcasing your strengths in visual design craft, interaction design logic, and the rationale behind your design decisions;

• Effective English verbal/written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to successfully articulate design concepts to your team and senior stakeholders;

• Strong ability to think technically and collaborate seamlessly with engineers and data scientists as it pertains to understanding the benefits, possibilities, and constraints of common coding languages and machine learning platforms;

• Effective time management skills to balance project schedule with fast-paced deadlines;

• Strong conceptual thinking that balances user needs, business goals, and feasibility;

Pay Transparency

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 $120,000 - $515,000.

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

Art at Night School Studio

Our artists are the architects of immersive worlds, bringing our interactive stories to life. We create world-class narrative games where the visual experience is as compelling as the story. Each game boasts a unique art style that enhances its design and narrative, making every project a new adventure.

About the Job

We’re looking for an experienced, full-time Lead Artist to guide the art team toward a compelling and clear art direction for one of our game titles. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team toward artistic excellence in collaboration with the game director and project leadership. You will both oversee project planning, resourcing and art execution with the support of the studio art director and a team of artists.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the game director, studio art director, and art team to drive and define the vision for the game. Responsible for championing the vision for art throughout development.

• Define and communicate needs, resourcing, priorities, and process to achieve a high-quality bar for art on an in-development game. Advocate for what the art team needs to be successful.

• Creates guiding pieces of art, documentation, and other resources to drive a cohesive and clear vision for the game’s art direction.

• Collaborate with the producers and game director to create and deliver high-level plans for discipline sprints, milestones, and phases.

• Delivers timely and accurate feedback to individual contributors on the project, working through the art team and other collaborators to execute the creative vision.

• Collaborate with external vendors, freelancers, and co-dev partners.

• Provides regular updates to managers and project/studio leadership to inform feedback to teammates.

• Represent art in meetings/presentations with partners with a high level of clarity and expertise.

• Provides mentorship and coaching to members of the art team, leading them both toward project success and individual skill improvement. Shares feedback and insights regularly with the studio art director and art manager.

Skills and Abilities:

• 10 years of experience crafting video game art, with 3 years as a Lead Artist or Art Director.

• Deftly navigates and leads through the uncertainty of game development and creative discovery.

• Extensive experience in illustration and/or 3d art with the proven ability to develop a unique and cohesive visual style in collaboration with others.

• Proven ability to visually solve problems in collaboration with the broader game team, including other artists, engineering leads, and design leads.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. Comfortable interacting with and presenting to all levels of the company.

• Excellent attention to detail and a strong desire to iterate and improve on processes.

• Demonstrated fundamentals of leadership, including clear and proactive communication, meeting moderation, and oversight of large cross-disciplinary initiatives.

• Ability to manage multiple competing tasks and be self-directed to meet deadlines in a quickly evolving environment with little to no supervision.

• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback.

• Ability to coach, manage, mitigate, and prioritize through stressful situations for you and your team.

• A strategic thinker with the ability to identify risks, opportunities, and innovations.

Generally, 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 $120,000-250,000.

What You Will Do:

• Partner with our Game stakeholders (e.g., Netflix Games Development team, Game Developers, Game Strategy, Planning & Analysis team) on advanced analytic initiatives (e.g., prediction modeling, causal inference, experimentation etc)

• Lead the design, analysis, and interpretation of causal inference or experimentation results that shape decision-making around Games at Netflix

• Proactively discover, curate and drive impactful projects supporting strategic decisions with stakeholders team

• Drive and implement high impact projects end to end

• Present your research and insights to key stakeholders

• Work with business stakeholders to connect analysis to key decisions that affect the business to influence and drive impact to the business

• Balance handling ad hoc requests while also driving larger projects forward

• Mentor junior DS on the team to direct technical directions and ensure technical excellence on the team

Who You Are:

• You have at least 2 years of experience working in the Games industry as a Data Scientist.

• At least 8 years of experience with a PhD degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Mathematics, Engineering or a relevant quantitative field or 10+ years of experience with a Master degree in those fields.

• You have strong influencing skills and help business leaders answer strategic questions by leveraging data

• You have deep statistical expertise utilized in analyzing observational data, statistical modeling and experimentation and proficient with commonly used machine learning techniques

• You have the ability to pinpoint the most significant business needs and lead data-driven projects to inform and support these decisions.

• You are comfortable working with large data sets and analyzing complex data with SQL and other tools such as Python or R

• You have strong business acumen on product innovations and excellent problem solving skills to translate business requirements to data science problems.

• You have a strong bias to action, delivering results quickly with iteration instead of waiting for perfection

• You are a fast learner and are comfortable with ambiguous requests.

• You have exceptional communication skills and can manage stakeholder priorities directly

• Willing to mentor junior data scientists on the team to accelerate team growth.

The overall market range for this role is typically $400,000 - $960,000

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