Senior Data Scientist- ML & NLP

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content creation technology for businesses enterprises and studios with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2 an open-source generative video model built to deliver expressive high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration.

The company is also known globally for pioneering consumer creativity through products like Facetune one of the worlds most recognized creative brands which helped introduce AI-powered visual expression to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We combine deep research user-first design and end-to-end execution from concept to final render to bring the future of expression to all.

What you will be doing

Our Data Science team is high-impact. Our models directly impact budget planning marketing spend allocation and product prioritization. Were building an agentic AI ecosystem that shapes how we research ship and monitor across the company.

Were hiring a Senior Data Scientist with strong NLP and ML skills. Youll build classification scoring and prediction models across both B2B and B2C domains - lead prediction account health monitoring revenue and marketing forecasting and extracting signals from unstructured user data. Youll also contribute to the teams AI ecosystem including evaluating and calibrating AI agent outputs and work on ML projects across our revenue and marketing portfolio.

Our stack: Python BigQuery GCP our own production pipeline framework Prefect and Grafana.

Were looking for someone with strong modeling instincts who cares about business impact - not just technical depth but making sure the work lands and changes how decisions are made.

• Build classification scoring and prediction models across B2B and B2C domains - lead scoring account health monitoring user segmentation among owning ML projects across the teams portfolio
• Design text-based features from noisy real-world user data - prompts project metadata usage patterns where off-the-shelf embeddings arent necessarily enough and domain-specific signal extraction matters
• Evaluate calibrate and improve AI agent outputs - measuring accuracy and identifying failure modes in AI-generated results
• Lead projects end-to-end: from identifying a business problem with stakeholders through DS project planning and research to production deployment and integration
• Apply DS solutions to solve business problems across Finance Marketing Product and other internal teams

Your skills and experience

• . or Ph.D. in Statistics Computer Science Mathematics or a related quantitative field
• 5 years of hands-on data science experience
• Proven experience deploying NLP or text-based models into production environments
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL (BigQuery or equivalent)
• Experience with ML frameworks; familiarity with time-series methods is a plus
• End-to-end project experience: from business problem definition through research modeling production and stakeholder delivery
• Proven experience working with both unstructured and structured data
• Daily use of AI tools in your workflow - you already work with LLMs coding assistants or AI-powered tooling as a natural part of how you get things done
• Strong communication skills - ability to present complex technical findings clearly to non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across teams

Good to haves

• Experience with anomaly detection or unsupervised methods
• Experience evaluating calibrating or benchmarking LLM and AI agent outputs
• Fine-tuning or RAG production experience

Why Join Us:

Were here to push the boundaries of whats possible with AI and video - not for the buzz but for the craft the challenge and the chance to make something genuinely new.

We believe in an environment where people are encouraged to think create and explore. Real impact happens when people are empowered to experiment evolve and elevate together.

At Lightricks every breakthrough starts with great people and a collaborative mindset. If youre looking for a place that combines deep tech creative energy and zero buzzword culture you might be in the right place.

We got you covered!

We empower employees with cutting-edge tools and learning opportunities to grow and succeed through workshops access and training on platforms subscriptions and clear guidelines for responsible AI use.

We offer Car-to-go subscriptions and run daily door-to-door shuttles from several locations in central Israel plus free parking and train-station pickups.

Were proud to have 2 chef-led restaurants on site by the legendary Machneyuda Group (yes that Machneyuda!) plus a bakery nestled in the heart of our office filled daily with the scent of fresh pastries.