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Data Scientist III

Idr

Los Angeles, CA
Contract
Mid Level
106/hr-132/hr
8 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Data Scientist III role involves leveraging data to deepen understanding of player experiences and game performance. The position is based in Los Angeles, California, and is a 12-month contract within the Business Intelligence and Analytics domain. The role requires working as part of a central team to build insights and frameworks that improve the client's understanding of their players and games, including creating hypotheses, conducting exploratory data analysis, and modeling complex sentiment and telemetry data.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work as part of a central team to build insights and frameworks that improve our client's understanding of their players and games.
  • Create and test hypotheses about the ways sentiment and engagement/monetization interrelate, including exploration of both leading and lagging relationships.
  • Conduct exploratory data analysis and build models that connect complex sentiment with player telemetry data.
  • Transform and prepare datasets, including longitudinal survey and other complex datasets, for analysis.
  • Consult on survey design and methodology, to improve the chance of success with the above analyses.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. in Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Math, or related Computer Science/Quantitative field with 3+ years of industry experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency using Python and SQL for large-scale data analysis in distributed computing environments.
  • Experience conducting exploratory data analysis on ordinal and continuous data.
  • Proficiency applying causal inference methods to observational panel data.
  • Experience modeling longitudinal sentiment data, especially multi-item constructs.
  • Skilled in preparing complex survey datasets, including handling multicollinearity, missing data, irregular time spacing, weighting, and reshaping wide/long data.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of industry experience with a Ph.D. in relevant fields or equivalent experience

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Full Benefits; Medical, Vision, Dental, and more!
  • Opportunity to get in with an industry leading organization
  • Close-knit and team-oriented culture

Working at Idr

IDR has a proven industry presence with 25+ years of experience across four major markets. The company values a close-knit, team-oriented environment and has received the ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® Client and Talent Award for 12 consecutive years. They promote diversity and inclusion, providing reasonable accommodations and adhering to fair employment practices.

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Job Details

Posted AtJul 16, 2025
Job CategoryData Science
Salary106/hr-132/hr
Job TypeContract
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceMid Level

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About Idr

Website

idr.de

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Industry

Insurance Agencies and Brokerages

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