Data Scientist

Job Description

THIS ROLE IS BASED IN BURBANK, CA ONLY.

Business Unit Overview
WB Technology combines Warner Bros.' industry-leading technologists and disciplines to ensure global alignment with business strategy and accelerated delivery of innovative technology solutions studio- and industry-wide. From pre-production through archiving, the WBT organization will provide critical business and technology intelligence and services to all Studio business units. WBT manages the Studio's enterprise systems and solutions, emerging platforms, information security, consumer intelligence, content mastering and delivery, and more.

The Job
WarnerMedia Entertainment Inc. seeks a Sr. Data Scientist for the Emerging & Creative Technologies team. The Data Scientist will be responsible for developing and maintaining machine learning algorithms which correlate neurological states with audio visual content for a consumer facing ML based Neurotechnology platform. This position will be responsible for the integrity and effectiveness of the ML algorithms and databases that power these platforms. This position also assists with AI/ML research and development in real-time interactive Mixed Reality applications, utilizing Computer Vision, Speech, Natural Language Processing, AI-based cognitive framework, and physic-based motion simulations.

The Daily
• Hands-on design and ML development work to identify multi-channel sentic modulation across various biometric device types
• Determine/refine approaches to create a machine learning model to classify biometric sentic modulation into neurological states.
• Determine/refine approaches and methods to identify noise patterns and false positives across biometric device types.
• Determine/refine approaches to create a machine learning model to identify characters and objects within audio video content.
• Design ML model to identify objects/characters within audio visual content.
• Identify & classify biometric noise types.
• Document parts of the current and future processing framework.
• Work closely with other groups to onboard new biometric device types. This includes collaborating with Television, Digital Networks, Theatrical, Business Intelligence, Talent, Content Ops, Biz Ops, Distribution, et al.
• Participate in development/system/database operations as needed (devops, sysops, and DBA work).

The Essentials
• 3-5 years developing complex algorithms for ML based systems and/or biometrics
• 3-5 years Digital Signal Processing experience
• 3-5 years Computer Vision knowledge
• 3-5 years Biometric device and data processing knowledge
• 3-5 years NLP, Speech, Conversational AI, Dialogue, Robotics, AI-Infrastructure
• 3-5 years C/C++/C#, Python development and Bash scripting
• 3-5 years SQL on 1 or 2 DBMS, e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, Snowflake, or other mainstream DBMS

Additional Skills – Strong Plus for 2 or more of the following
• Big Data related experience, e.g. Redshift, Vertica, Presto, Spark SQL, Kafka, Kinesis, Hadoop, AWS Lambda, Glue.
• Cloud experience, ideally AWS --or alternate ,e.g. Azure or Google Cloud Compute and Cognitive, Speech and Vision services.
• Business platform API development experience with Google/YouTube & Facebook
• Background in other development languages, e.g. Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Scala.
• Experience w/ gaming, entertainment, and Internet monetization business models.
• Experience with AR/VR application on mobile devices and HMDs.
• Experience with CUDA or other GPGPU.
• Experience with game engines (Unity and/or Unreal).
• Knowledge in Machine Learning Libraries, Computer Vision frameworks (such as OpenCV), Natural Language Processing frameworks, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow.
• Experience developing software for consumer devices or mobile, including algorithm design and systems software development

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