Hybrid Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI chez Luminate

The Team:

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI to join our Data team in New York City, NY. Your role will include a combination of developing models and tools to be deployed into production systems and defining frameworks to measure and improve data quality standards. This is an IC position but will require you to collaborate with the Data team as well as with various technical and nontechnical team across our organization. Your work will directly impact the future of our Music and Film & TV products. 

Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, and deploy robust, scalable machine learning models that power core product features. You will write production-quality code and be responsible for the end-to-end implementation of AI/ML systems.
• Take full ownership of the model development process, including data sourcing and feature engineering, model training and validation, testing, and deployment.
• You will design and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure model performance, reliability, and health in a live environment.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to define the art of the possible. You'll stay on the absolute bleeding edge of AI, evaluating new tools, papers, and techniques to keep our products ahead of the curve.
• Champion and implement best practices for AI/MLOps, including model versioning, automated training pipelines, and CI/CD for machine learning, to improve the velocity and quality of our AI development.

Qualifications:

• An advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience focused on building and shipping production-level AI/ML systems.
• Have a deep, foundational knowledge of how LLMs work. Can speak confidently about transformer architecture, attention mechanisms, and the principles behind RAG, fine-tuning, and advanced prompt engineering.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and its ecosystem and deep experience with AI/ML frameworks (such as LangChain, ai, and PyTorch).
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing models in a major cloud environment (AWS preferred), coupled with deep familiarity with modern data platforms like Snowflake.
• Possess an intuitive feel for writing elegant, efficient, and effective code. You thrive in a fast-paced, experimental environment where you can quickly bring ideas to life.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building autonomous AI agents or multi-agent systems.
• Contributions to major open-source AI projects.
• Knowledge of model optimization techniques like quantization or distillation.
• Experience with multi-modal models (text, image, audio).

What makes us shine:

• Our People! We are music fans and gamers, film buffs and social scrollers, technologists and subject matter experts, scientists and developers and analysts who take immense pleasure in making sense of the data that drives entertainment, so everyone can get paid and more art can be made. That’s why we do what we do. 
• 100% paid for Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance, 401K with matching, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Hybrid Work - 4 In-Office Working days (Monday, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays) with flexibility to WFH when needed
• Flexible Time Away / Time Off - You are empowered to do the things you enjoy outside of work too
• Community! - Participate, create, or develop our employee clubs, affinity groups and 2% Volunteer initiative which allows you to take paid time off to volunteer within your community
• Family Planning Assistance and Parental leave for all partners
• LGBTQ+ medical benefits and more!

For candidates based in NYC: Our base salary range for this position is $175,000 - 200,000. We consider your skills and experience, what similar jobs pay at companies of our size, and ensure fair pay among colleagues. Final base salary offer amounts are determined by factors including your experience, skills, and expertise. In addition we are proud to offer additional perks and benefits that contribute and complete our total compensation package.  Luminate reserves the right to change our compensation bands at any time.

Additionally, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

PMC is committed to the health and wellness of our employees. As part of our company-wide rollout of PMC’s paid healthcare plan, for this role the company pays 100% of the monthly health, dental and vision plan premiums for the employee and their family. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.