Senior Data Scientist

About the role

DuckDuckGo is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive product and business impact through statistical modeling, experiment design, and classifier implementation. You will take end-to-end ownership of projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem, working across search, AI, and revenue optimization. This role requires a creative approach to surfacing actionable insights from sparse, privacy-constrained data.

Responsibilities

• Define core growth metrics and build infrastructure to monitor trends and anomalies.
• Measure the impact of marketing campaigns and translate full-funnel data into actionable decisions.
• Build monitoring pipelines to detect unexpected shifts in search traffic patterns.
• Expand evaluation datasets for page context understanding across complex scenarios.
• Improve trigger systems for AI-assisted answers while balancing quality and privacy.

Required skills

• Data Science
• Statistical modeling
• Experiment design
• Python
• SQL
• Machine Learning
• NLP
• Bayesian methods

Nice to have

• Tableau
• PowerBI
• LLM fine-tuning

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Office setup allowance
• Co-working allowance
• Stock options

About the Company

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company with a remote-first team of over 300 people on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008, the company offers a browser, search engine, and subscription services, all built on a culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management.