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Job Title: Senior Data Scientist

Location: Reston, VA or Remote (East Coast)

About This Role:

The landscape of media consumption, programmatic advertising and consumer privacy is changing rapidly. Comscore's fast-growing Activation business, Proximic, needs a seasoned Data Scientist to help build bring new products to the market by extracting valuable information from large and diverse data sources. Information extraction will then be used to classify, predict and explain consumer interests useful for adverting. A Senior Data Scientist works with the broader Analytics team, as well as Product and Engineering teams, to produce algorithms, models, and tools for organizing, analyzing, and measuring data through visualization tools, reports, technical papers, patents and other means for conveying analysis results.

Comscore is unable to provide sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

What You'll Do:

• Produces innovative solutions driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and high dimensional datasets
• Build a wide variety of models ranging from simple regression to neural networks leveraging LLM embeddings
• Takes a project from prototype phase to full-scale production in coordination with data engineers
• Writes well documented reports that include visualizations for Product and Marketing groups
• Participates as a senior member of cross-organizational teams that investigate new technologies and uses cost-effectively
• Develops and files patent disclosures

What You'll Need:

• 4-6+ years of related experience with a focus on statistical methodology
• Ability to work under little supervision, but accountable for producing high-quality results
• Ability to conduct complex work that is critical to the organization and contribute to measurable team and/or organizational objectives
• Programming experience in R, Python, Scala or SQL as well as Big Data Analytics using Spark or Snowflake
• Experience developing Machine Learning algorithms - Clustering and Classification, as well as AI model Embeddings
• Familiarity with programmatic advertising, free ad-supported TV, as well as differential privacy or secure multi-party computation
• Understanding of how the web works: browsers, cookies, JavaScript, HTTP, JSON, and Web2.0 APIs
• Experience in clearly articulating analysis results to both technical and non-technical team members
• Compensation: $120K - $140K; Commensurate with experience.

About Comscore

At Comscore, we’re pioneering the future of cross-platform media measurement, arming organizations with the insights they need to make decisions with confidence. Central to this aim are our people who work together to simplify the complex on behalf of our clients & partners. Though our roles and skills are varied, we’re united by our commitment to five underlying values: Integrity, Velocity, Accountability, Teamwork, and Servant Leadership. If you’re motivated by big challenges and interested in helping some of the largest and most important media properties and brands navigate the future of media, we’d love to hear from you.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With a data footprint that combines digital, linear TV, over-the-top and theatrical viewership intelligence with advanced audience insights, Comscore allows media buyers and sellers to quantify their multiscreen behavior and make business decisions with confidence. A proven leader in measuring digital and set-top box audiences and advertising at scale, Comscore is the industry’s emerging, third-party source for reliable and comprehensive cross-platform measurement. To learn more about Comscore, please visit Comscore.com.

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