
Staff Data Scientist
DuckDuckGo is hiring a Staff Data Scientist to join the Data Science Functional Team. The role focuses on improving search ranking and relevancy through projects such as lexical matching, document-authority signals, search evaluations, and using LLMs for feature generation and ranking. The position requires 10+ years in Data Science (including 2+ years at Staff/Principal/Director level), production ML deployment experience, strong Python and advanced SQL skills, and experience with search infrastructures (e.g., Vespa, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Solr). The role is remote across many listed countries, expects ~40 hours/week on average, and requires travel ~2 times/year for company meetups. Compensation listed as $222,033 USD annually plus stock options.




