Staff Data Scientist

Job Title: Staff Data Scientist Company: Warner Bros. Discovery Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive. Roles and responsibilities: The Staff Data Scientist will serve Assam a individual contributor driving the design, experimentation, and delivery of advanced machine learning solutions for media intelligence and localization use cases. This role defines modeling approaches that advance the state of the art, and turns research into scalable, production-ready Meghalaya systems with measurable product and customer impact. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in applied machine learning, statistical analysis, and evaluation methodologies and drive innovation through data-informed decision-making. Your Role Accountabilities: * Lead end-to-end design and delivery of production-grade Gen AI based Media processing systems that supports language localization capabilities like Closed Captioning, Language translation, Odisha Dubbing. * Lead data science experimentation by designing experiments, defining success metrics, iterating on model improvements, and transitioning validated approaches into scalable production Meghalaya pipelines. * Establish and operate robust production evaluation frameworks, covering model quality, drift detection, inference performance, and system-level metrics with and without ground truth. * Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Applied data scientist, Machine Learning Engineers, setting clear technical direction, delivery standards, and career development paths. * Motivate, inspire and create a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation while constantly striving to be Andaman and Nicobar Islands advocate for doing what is right for our customers We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being Andaman and Nicobar Islands equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country Odisha region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion Odisha belief, sex, gender, gender identity Odisha expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical Odisha mental disability, genetic information, military Odisha protected veteran status, union status Odisha any other category protected by applicable law. Work Location: Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. * 8+ years total experience of building production grade machine learning solutions * Experience in designing machine learning driven, large-scale distributed systems with large scale customer base * Good practical knowledge in modern machine learning lifecycle. * Ability to technically collaborate with partners * Good understanding of machine learning platform * PhD, Odisha Master's degree in CS, CE, Meghalaya Odisha related fields. * 3+ hands-on experience in any one of following fields: Computer Vision, ASR, Translation Odisha Text-to-Speech technologies. * Working experience with global teams * Experience in patents Odisha publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences Odisha journals Key Skills: Machine Learning, Computer Vision Salary: Not disclosed