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Senior Data Scientist (P91751)

Roku

NEW YORK, NY · HybridJob$126–200K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$126–200K/yr
Location
NEW YORK, NYHybrid
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Roku seeks a Senior Data Scientist to analyze enriched datasets, identify trends and patterns, and support strategic business decisions. The role builds data pipelines and visualizations, partners with leadership and engineering teams, and uses creative proxies when direct measurements are unavailable. Up to one day per week of telecommuting may be permitted.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Hypothesis TestingStatistical AnalysisStatistical ModelingMachine LearningNetwork AnalysisNatural Language ProcessingDeep LearningMathematical ModelingOptimization ModelingStochastic ModelingMarkov Chain SimulationRobust OptimizationSQLBig Data ProcessingBig Data AnalysisPython or RPandasNumPySciPyScikit-LearnVersion ControlGitCloud PlatformsAWS SageMakerS3Data VisualizationManagement ReportingTableauGraphing in R or Python

Qualifications

Master's in Operations Research, Data Science, or Related FieldBachelor's in Operations Research, Data Science, or Related Field or Equivalent2 Years Data Scientist or Related Experience

Full job description

Employer: Roku, Inc. Position: Senior Data Scientist Duties: Formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists management. Use Rokus enriched datasets to perform analyses to identify trends and patterns in the data and to support the business with strategic decisions. Build data processing and reporting pipelines using SQL, Python, and Airflow. Develop data visualization that illustrates complex platform phenomena using tools such as Looker and Tableau. Partner with leadership, engineers, and data engineers to understand business needs and how these can be addressed through analytics. Use creativity to find proxies where verbatim data or measurements are unavailable. Automate dashboard and build data pipelines that help various stakeholders gather real-time insights and make informed decisions. Up to one day per week telecommuting may be permitted.EducationRequired: Masters degree or foreign equivalent in Operations Research, Data Science, or related field.AlternateRequirements: Will also accept Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Operations Research, Data Science, or related field plus 2 years of experience as a Data Scientist, Data Analytics Extern, Data Scientist Intern, or related occupation. Special Requirements: Must have prior experience, internship, project background, or advance level coursework in each of the following: 1) Hypothesis testing, and statistical analysis 2) Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning techniques, including Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning Model; 3) Mathematical and Optimization Models, including Stochastic Model, Markov Chain Simulation Model, and Robust Optimization Model; 4) SQL and Big Data Processing and Analysis; 5) Python or R and numerical and scientific libraries used for statistics and machine learning, including Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn; 6) Version Control and Cloud Platforms, including Git, AWS SageMaker, and S3; and 7) Creating data visualizations and intuitive management reporting, including Tableau and graphing capabilities in either R or Python.Up to one day per week telecommuting may be permitted.Salary: $126,000 - $199,750 per yearWorksite: 5 Times Square, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10036 Applicant instructions: Apply to job code P91751 at https://www.weareroku.com/home.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,833 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$126–200K/yr
  • New York median$150–209K/yr368 salary ranges
  • US median$135–213K/yr3,713 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $163K, is 11% below the New York median midpoint ($183K) — in the middle half of Data Scientist salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 473 open Data Scientist jobs in New York and 4,833 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,140 postings).
Education
2,287 of the 4,833 open Data Scientist jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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