Sr Data Scientist

Key Skills

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, PySpark, Python Programming, SQL, Statistical modeling

Job Description

About the Team

The VIZIO Data Licensing Team is looking for a highly talented and motivated data scientist to help deliver strategic initiatives across the organization. We look for people who can effectively partner with product management, engineering, and business leaders to deliver easy, effective, and insightful analytics. We are a growing team, focusing on challenging problems that make a difference to our business. We concentrate on high- impact, high-value development, and analysis. We are looking for someone who is versatile, methodical, excited by modern technology and enjoys focusing on tackling software challenges.

The position is for onsite at our Denver, New York, or Los Angeles location.

What You Will Do

• Work cross-functionally with Product Managers and stake holders across the company to gather feedback and requirements.
• Solve novel and complex business problems with high quality maintainable code.
• Dig deep into high volumes of data to find anomalies and propose solutions to fix them.
• Organize and document complex technical projects.
• Communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

About You

• A doctorate in a quantitative field - computer science, engineering, statistics, operations research, etc. and two years’ experience in industry or a master’s degree and five years’ experience.
• Fluent in Python, SQL and PySpark.
• High sense of ownership and results driven.
• Solid understanding of predictive analytics, statistical modeling, and data mining (theory, algorithms, and application).
• Proficient with modern big data technologies and CI/CD frameworks.

About VIZIO

We are Beautifully Simple.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.

For Colorado-based employment: The minimum salary for this position is $110,000/year. The compensation package includes the annual bonus in addition to a range of medical, dental, vision and other benefits.

For New York-based employment: The minimum salary for this position is $120,000.00/year. The maximum salary for this position $156,000.00/year. In addition to base salary, the compensation package also includes eligibility for an annual bonus, as well as equity and a range of medical, dental, vision and other benefits.

For California-based employment: The minimum salary for this position is $116,000.00/year. The maximum salary for this position $150,000.00/year. In addition to base salary, the compensation package also includes eligibility for an annual bonus, as well as equity and a range of medical, dental, vision and other benefits.