Staff Applied Scientist

We’re hiring for an Applied Scientist role at Glance.

If you’re someone who enjoys solving large-scale personalization and recommendation problems, building intelligent ML systems that operate in production, and experimenting with the next generation of AI-powered experiences, we’d love to speak with you.

What you will be doing

We are looking for a Data Scientist who can operate at the intersection of

classical machine learning

,

large-scale recommendation systems

, and

modern agentic AI systems

.

You will design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that power Glance’s personalized lock screen and live entertainment experiences. This role blends deep ML craftsmanship with forward-looking innovation in autonomous/agentic systems.

Your responsibilities will include:

Classical ML \& Recommendation Systems

• Design and develop large-scale recommendation systems using advanced ML, statistical modelling, ranking algorithms, and deep learning.
• Build and operate machine learning models on diverse, high-volume data sources for personalization, prediction, and content understanding.
• Develop rapid experimentation workflows to validate hypotheses and measure real-world business impact.
• Own data preparation, model training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines in collaboration with engineering counterparts.
• Monitor ML model performance using statistical techniques; identify drifts, failure modes, and improvement opportunities.

Agentic Systems \& Next-Gen AI

• Build and experiment with

agentic AI systems

that autonomously observe model performance, trigger experiments, tune hyperparameters, improve ranking policies, or orchestrate ML workflows with minimal human intervention.

• Apply

LLMs, embeddings, retrieval-augmented architectures, and multimodal generative models

for semantic understanding, content classification, and user preference modelling.

• Design intelligent agents that can automate repetitive decision-making tasks—e.g., candidate generation tuning, feature selection, or context-aware content curation.
• Explore reinforcement learning, contextual bandits, and self-improving systems to power next-generation personalization.

Cross-functional impact

• Collaborate with Designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to integrate ML and GenAI-driven features into Glance’s consumer experiences.
• Contribute to Glance’s ML/AI thought leadership—blogs, case studies, internal tech talks, and industry conferences.
• Thrive in a multi-functional, highly collaborative team environment with engineering, product, business, and creative teams.
• Plus: Interface with stakeholders across Product, Business, Data, and Infrastructure to align ML initiatives with strategic priorities.

We are seeking candidates with deep expertise in ML, recommendation systems, and a strong appetite for building agentic AI systems.

You should have experience with:

• Large-scale ML and recommendation systems (collaborative filtering, ranking models, content-based approaches, embeddings).
• Classical ML and deep learning techniques across NLP, sequence modelling, RL, clustering, and time series.
• Experience in deploying ML workflows/models in production system
• Big data processing (Spark, distributed data systems) and cloud computing.
• Designing end-to-end ML solutions—from prototype to production.
• Plus: Building or experimenting with LLMs, generative models, and agentic AI workflows (e.g., autonomous evaluators, self-improving pipelines, automated experiment agents).

We value curiosity, problem-solving ability, and a strong bias toward experimentation and production impact.

Our team includes engineers, physicists, economists, mathematicians, and social scientists—a great data scientist can come from anywhere.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/master’s in computer science, Statistics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, Economics, Analytics, or related fields. PhD is a plus.
• 6\+ years of industry experience in ML/Data Science, ideally in large-scale recommendation systems or personalization.
• Experience with LLMs, retrieval systems, generative models, or agentic/autonomous ML systems is highly desirable.
• Expertise with algorithms in NLP, Reinforcement Learning, Time Series, and Deep Learning, applied on real-world datasets.
• Proficient in Python and comfortable with statistical tools (R, NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch/TensorFlow, etc.).
• Strong experience with the big data ecosystem (Spark, Hadoop) and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP/Vertex AI).
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving ML and identity-less ecosystems (especially on iOS and Android).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.