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Staff Data Scientist

Location: Remote · Category: Data, AI & Analytics · Seniority: Lead · USD222,033 – USD222,033 / yearly · Posted: August 19, 2026 · Verified: Oct 5, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This Staff Data Scientist role focuses on improving DuckDuckGo's search engine ranking and results, including first-phase ranking quality, lexical-matching signals, search evaluations, and investigating LLMs for feature generation. The scientist leads high-complexity projects from scoping to production with minimal direction, requiring 10+ years in data science with 2+ years at Staff/Principal/Director level, production ML deployment, NLP solutions, and advanced SQL. Preferred experience includes search-specific projects and large-scale search infrastructure like Vespa or Elasticsearch.
Source & Transparency: This position was structured directly from the publicly accessible career portal of DuckDuckGo. Details on the employer’s original job posting are authoritative. Polaris7 charges no placement fees and conducts no candidate screening.

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