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Staff Research Scientist, User Modeling and Personalization

Snap Inc.· Research
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Bellevue, WA$195k - $343kFull timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Research Scientist role focused on user modeling, personalization, and scalable ML systems to enhance personalized experiences across Snap products.

Responsibilities

  • Formulate and derive a research agenda in the user modeling and personalization domains, including generative modeling, recommendation systems, information retrieval, and efficiency
  • Partner with engineering teams to translate research to business impact for real-world ML applications used by millions of Snapchatters
  • Build scalable research prototypes and evaluate them in large-scale machine learning scenarios
  • Share your expertise with teammates and interns
  • Publish your findings at top conferences

Qualifications

  • PhD in computer science, machine learning, language technologies or related technical field such as statistics, mathematics, or equivalent years of experience
  • 5+ years of industry or postdoctoral experience
  • Track record of publications in top machine learning, information retrieval or language venues (e.g. ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, RecSys, SIGIR, WSDM, ACL, COLM, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed (multi-node and multi-GPU) ML model training, inference and experimentation
  • Experience applying language models in the context of generative search, ranking and/or personalization

Skills

Required:Machine learning

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Emotional and mental health support programs
  • Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

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