MediaLab is a media & technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands. The organization is a unique combination of private equity, holding company and operating entity. We continue to expand and are proud of the prominent market position of our brands.  
Come join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product and business builders. HQ is located in sunny Santa Monica, California with growing teams in New York, and across cities in the US and Latin America.
Your Role at MediaLab
As a Data Scientist, you will be researching and developing models that directly contribute to revenue growth. You will select, train, and tune ML models to specific business use cases, handing them off for deployment in active applications. You will interface with stakeholders from across the organization in order to deeply understand each case and to validate models during development. What You'll DoResearch solutions to business problems, selecting the most effective models for specific use casesUnderstand each business case in depth, interviewing stakeholders to develop the knowledge necessary to determine the best solutionsTrain and fine-tune modelsProduce clean, reproducible code that can be easily productionalizedWork closely with ML Ops and the rest of the Data Team to get clean input data and to implement models into applicationsProduce solutions that drive improvement in KPIs for the companyWork may include projects such as:Vectorizing website content and running ANN classificationTraining supervised ML models on labeled images and video to produce low-resolution tags on a vast collection of content (billions of posts)Developing dynamic bid floors for real-time bidding (RTB) auctionsImproving automated spam-detection modelsWhat We're Searching For3-5 years professional experience as a Data Scientist building statistical models and AI/ML solutionsDemonstrated ability to work through projects effectively, self-directing to involve stakeholders wherever necessaryAdvanced python skills including professional experience with common data science libraries (pandas, numpy/scipy)Demonstrated experience with the data science project lifecycle: problem definition; data investigation and preparation; model selection; training and validationAbility to write clear documentationExperience in the ad tech industry or working with RTB is a plusAt MediaLab, we rely on a range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We value diversity, and we’re proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.