Research Scientist (L5) - Content Understanding

Netflix
USA - Remote2025-12-17onsite

About the job

We are looking for a talented Research Scientist to join our Merchandising & Content Understanding pod, which focuses on deepening our content metadata across all formats and improving the discovery experience on our service. You will design and develop models and conduct quality evaluations for algorithms that will power the next generation of capabilities for our business.

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with stakeholders in Product Discovery & Promotion to learn deeply about content metadata and merchandising and identify potentially impactful problems to solve via scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions

Develop innovative systems and models that empower decision-making for stakeholders and product features that can deliver member joy by leveraging a wide variety of metadata and production media generated by and collected from our productions throughout their end-to-end lifecycle

Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to operationalize your models so that they can be integrated seamlessly into operational workflows

Serve as a key thought partner for stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and our diverse set of team members regarding machine learning algorithms and system architectures

Qualifications

Minimum

Ph.D. or MS degree in a quantitative or computational field

4+ years of full-time work experience in one or more relevant machine-learning roles

Practical experience in supervised, unsupervised, and deep machine learning methods

Practical experience applying machine learning and Gen AI solutions to video, audio, and/or textual data sources, and developing quality evaluations via mechanisms such as LLM-as-a-judge or LLM juries

Practical experience operationalizing or productionizing machine learning and/or artificial intelligence solutions

Comfortable and effective in ambiguous problem spaces; ability to own and drive projects with minimal oversight and process

Exceptional written and oral communication with technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.