Data Scientist

Job Description

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join our family tree. Backed by history, science, and technology, we’re creating a new world of connection, innovation, and understanding. Whether it’s reuniting long-lost relatives through DNA or unearthing new family stories from historical records, Ancestry empowers life-changing experiences. With over 20 billion digitized historical records, 100 million family trees, and 15+ million DNA kits sold, Ancestry is bringing the power of personal discovery to people around the world. Ancestry is looking for a highly motivated Data Scientists to join our Data Science Discovery team in San Francisco. You will be a member of the global Data Science & Machine Learning Team, tackling our toughest and most exciting data science challenges. Ancestry's Data Science team has a wide reach across the company, working with Product, Science, and Marketing teams. We find ways to provide new and meaningful discoveries to our customers. We build machine learning models to improve our content or create new content that unlock stories for Ancestry customers. As a Data Scientist on the Data Science Discovery team, you will be involved in the end to end process of data acquisition, data cleaning, model building, and model testing. You will help our users to find their ancestors and discover interesting family history events. You will utilize cutting edge machine learning algorithms and statistical analysis techniques to provide personalized discovery experience to our users.

What You Will Do

• Machine learning for recommender systems and personalization
• Deep learning for natural language processing
• Ranking algorithms for search and recommendation
• Feature engineering for people, family, records, photos and more
• NLP for query and document analysis, processing and understanding at a large scale
• Ranking result evaluation and analysis

Who You Are

• You have either a PhD in a relevant field, such as recommendation systems, machine learning, deep learning, NLP or search OR a Masters plus one year of full-time industry experience
• You have strong modeling skills in Python or R and a solid understanding of core CS algorithms and coding skills in Python, Java or C/C++

Big Bonus Points For

• Experience with Big data, such as Hadoop/Hbase/Pig/Hive is a plus
• Experience with Solr/Elasticsearch is a plus
• Experience with Spark is a plus

Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means Apply for this job