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Machine Learning Scientist 5 - Games
NetflixPosted Jun 16, 2026Netflix Games is hiring an ML Scientist (L5) focused on forecasting and audience research — building embeddings, models, and pipelines that bridge game design with machine learning to power audience insights and data-intensive game features.
Salary
$466,000 – $750,000 / yr
Location
Natick, MA
Work mode
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Seniority
Principal
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What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Develop embeddings and models incorporating game-specific signals for audience insights, opportunity sizing, and forecasting
- Build tools, models, and pipelines accelerating data-science workflows across the games portfolioCommon
- Serve as liaison between Netflix Games and broader DSE/AI teamsUnique
- Design end-to-end ML pipelines enabling actionable insights and data-intensive game featuresUnique
- Establish technical standards for ML applications across game domainsUnique
What you'll need
Experience
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, ML, or related quantitative fieldCommon
- 5+ years leading complex, end-to-end ML projects impacting customer experiencesUnique
- 3+ years navigating large-scale technical organizations
- Ability to bridge ML architecture with business objectives; causal-inference foundationsUnique
- Nice to have: game-dev experience, production ML/MLOps, evaluation frameworks (Python, PyTorch, LangChain)