Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 3Play Media is a technology company making video accessible to everyone, and they are seeking a Senior Applied Data Scientist to join their Applied Science team. The role involves contributing to product development and data analysis projects, particularly in areas related to audio and video processing, generative AI, and natural language processing.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to a shared codebase, using GitHub and other modern collaboration tools, such as agentic coding systems
- Perform the technical elements of a variety of product development and data analysis projects (prototyping, evaluation, productionization, and maintenance), especially related to audio and video processing, generative AI, predictive modeling, and NLP
- Participate in the internal peer review process, including design reviews, code reviews, and data analysis reviews
- Design, manage, and analyze controlled experiments within our production systems
- Regularly report on progress, results, findings, risks, and opportunities
Skills
- 2+ years full time working experience in signal processing, data science, or machine learning roles, including predictive modeling, data processing, and data analysis responsibilities
- Extremely strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
- Strong familiarity with Python coding, utilizing industry standard libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib/Seaborn)
- Interest in presenting technical and business-oriented information to a variety of audiences, including senior management and customers
- BS/ MS / PhD in Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
- Strong academic and professional experience with audio signal processing, speech synthesis, and computer vision
- Experience writing, deploying, and maintaining Python and SQL code in a production setting
- Experience building and maintaining production machine learning systems in a cloud-based platform, such as AWS SageMaker
- Experience developing and maintaining custom deep learning models using pytorch and HuggingFace, especially models involving text, audio, and video data
- Experience using third-party generative AI systems, including prompt engineering and fine-tuning
- Experience in the accessibility and localization industries
Company Overview
3Play Media provides captioning, live auto-captioning, audio description, transcription, and subtitling services. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.3playmedia.com.