Senior Applied Scientist

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

• Lead the research and development of recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and personalization methods across Crunchyroll's streaming, manga, ecommerce, and marketing surfaces.
• Frame ambiguous business and product questions into clear scientific problems, hypotheses, success metrics, and experimentation plans.
• Design and run robust offline evaluation frameworks for recommender systems, including relevance, diversity, novelty, coverage, calibration, and long-term value metrics.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, and Engineering to define online experiments, interpret results, and translate learnings into roadmap decisions and model improvements.
• Develop user, content, and contextual understanding through feature design, representation learning, segmentation, and behavioral analysis.

Benefits

• 401k
• Equity
• Health Insurance
• Learning Budget

Culture

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