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Foundational Research Scientist

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United States , Palo Alto

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Salary:

252000.00 - 400000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

We’re creating a world-class academic-industrial hybrid research group to advance recommender systems. Unlike academia, your work won’t live only in papers — it will be deployed into real products, used by millions, and validated at scale. This is your chance to push the science forward and see your ideas transform how the world discovers content.

Job Responsibility:

  • Drive foundational research to create new recommendation models and paradigms
  • Leverage rich live user data and large-scale compute to validate models rapidly
  • Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to operationalize research
  • Publish findings and contribute to the broader ML and RecSys community

Requirements:

  • PhD (or equivalent research experience) in CS, ML, Statistics, or related field
  • Strong background in deep learning
  • Proven track record of research excellence (publications, awards, impactful projects)
  • Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch)
  • Experience with large-scale data and experimentation

Nice to have:

  • Publications in top venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, RecSys, SIGIR, WWW)
  • Experience with sequential modeling, representation learning, or causal inference
  • Knowledge of online experimentation and evaluation methodologies
  • Industry experience deploying ML in production systems
What we offer:
  • Competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach
  • Equity, and other forms of incentive compensation (as applicable)
  • Dental, vision, and other benefits

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Job Posted:
December 19, 2025

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