# Staff Data Scientist, Causal Inference & Experimentation at Discord

- Company: Discord
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://discordapp.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $279K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8652853002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/discord-staff-data-scientist-causal-inference-and-experimentation/

## About the role

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

## What they're looking for

- Formulate the vision and set the roadmap for the future of the Experimentation Platform, in partnership with engineering, product, and data science stakeholders
- Provide statistical expertise, ensuring that experimentation methodologies and frameworks are sound and aligned with best practices in causal inference and experimental design
- Partner closely with engineering and product to improve the reliability, scalability, and adoption of experimentation across Discord - including modern AI/LLM tooling where it can accelerate rigor and speed
- Lead initiatives to educate and train cross-functional teams - including workshops, training sessions, and educational materials - on experimentation design, statistical methodology, and causal inference
- Empower Discord's Data Science team (50+ members) to adopt more rigorous causal inference methods
- Lead and conduct original causal inference research on high-priority Discord questions, in partnership with the wider Data Science team

Tags: Data Science & Engineering