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Senior / Staff Data Scientist, Trust & Safety

The first dedicated Trust & Safety data scientist will define ecosystem metrics, run experiments, evaluate safety models, and shape the roadmap with Product, Engineering, and Legal. Requires 6–8 years of data science experience, Trust & Safety or adjacent domain expertise, and strong SQL and Python skills.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Define and evaluate metrics for the health of the Trust & Safety ecosystem.
  • Analyze and contribute to models, algorithms, and methodologies for bot detection, content filtering, copyright detection, and related platform-safety challenges.
  • Design and run online experiments end-to-end, from ideation and metric selection through analysis and decision recommendations.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to size opportunities and shape the Trust & Safety roadmap.
  • Collaborate with Legal and cross-functional stakeholders to apply rigorous quantitative analysis to trust and safety problems.
  • Contribute to strong data foundations as part of the data science team.

Requirements

  • 6–8 years of experience in data science or a closely related analytical field.
  • Several years of experience in Trust & Safety or adjacent areas such as spam, fraud, integrity, or policy-adjacent machine learning.
  • Strong hands-on SQL and Python skills.
  • Experience running online experiments from ideation and metric selection through analysis and final decision-making.
  • Experience building metrics or evaluation frameworks from scratch.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience training and building predictive machine learning models, both offline and in real time.
  • Musician or creative hobbyist.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Annual base salary range: $220,000–$320,000.
  • Competitive equity package.
  • 401(k) with 3% employer match and Roth 401(k).
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with PPO, HSA, and FSA options.
  • 11 paid holidays, unlimited PTO, and sick time.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Creative education stipend.
  • Commuter allowance.
  • In-office lunch five days per week.

Skills

SQL, Python, Online Experiments, Metrics Design, Evaluation Frameworks, Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Bot Detection, Content Filtering, Copyright Detection

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