Senior Data Scientist, Safety Enforcement

RedditNorth AmericaSenior8+ years experienceData Science

Specialty

Data Science

The role

Reddit is hiring a senior data scientist for safety enforcement, building models, rules and evaluation for detecting abuse on the platform. The role is fully remote within the United States.

What you will do

  • Turn abuse risks and policy into signals, labels and detection approaches
  • Prototype and evaluate models and rules and tune thresholds
  • Monitor enforcement systems after launch
  • Apply language models to detection and labelling with human oversight

What they ask for

  • PhD with 4+ years or Master's with 8+ years in data science or a related quantitative role
  • Applied experience in safety, fraud, integrity or another adversarial domain
  • Experience with methods such as graph analysis, NLP, embeddings or behavioural modelling
  • Possible exposure to sensitive content and on-call rotation
  • Based in the US

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