Senior Data Scientist

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WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
At The Trade Desk, the Data Science team is responsible for transforming our hundreds of terabytes of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) advertising auction data into actionable intelligence, using advanced modelling and optimization algorithms.

Our mission is to develop new and powerful means of growing the value of our client’s campaigns across millions of web-based publishers.

Our team believes in innovation that contributes to our product.

In this role, you will be a key member in the development of entirely new data products and the improvement of existing ones, all while using world-class machine learning.

You will interact primarily with our product, trading, and engineering teams to oversee the implementation of your data products.

Your ideas and research will contribute directly to our client facing product.


WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
At The Trade Desk, the Data Science team is responsible for transforming our hundreds of terabytes of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) advertising auction data into actionable intelligence, using advanced modelling and optimization algorithms.

Our mission is to develop new and powerful means of growing the value of our client’s campaigns across millions of web-based publishers.

Our team believes in innovation that contributes to our product.

In this role, you will be a key member in the development of entirely new data products and the improvement of existing ones, all while using world-class machine learning.

You will interact primarily with our product, trading, and engineering teams to oversee the implementation of your data products.

Your ideas and research will contribute directly to our client facing product.


WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Be an intellectually generous and collaborative team member
Develop end-to-end machine learning prototypes that could scale to run in a production environment
Contribute meaningful improvements to existing machine learning models through carefully directed research
Maintain a focus on shipping product, understanding that oftentimes done is better than perfect
Derive actionable insights from massive data sets with minimal support
Provide input into the collection of new data sources and the refinement of existing ones to improve analysis and model development
Become an expert on TTD’s client-facing platform
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:
NON-TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
You are enthusiastic to learn (and teach) new technologies, machine learning techniques, and advancements in the adtech industry
You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
You have an abundance of intellectual curiosity
You are able to deliver a convincing story derived from the data sets to both a technical and non-technical audiences
You have experience working closely with engineering team to bring ideas into real product
Experience in digital advertising and/or recommendation system, relevant experience in recall / ranking is a plus
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
A relevant scientific and mathematical education (Masters and/or PhD welcome) with 5+ years of professional or academic experience in a data driven role working with massive data sets
You have a solid understanding of statistical machine learning and optimization techniques as well as the ability to derive actionable insights from massive data sets
You have experience recall/matching/retrieval algorithms
You have experience in Adtech or recommendation systems
You are familiar with one of the deep learning frameworks (e.g., Tensorflow, Pytorch, MXNet), knowledge of inference optimization is a plus
You have experience with big data technologies such as Spark, AWS, Hadoop, Hive and are able to write efficient SQL
You have experience in multiple programming languages (Python, R, Scala, Java, etc.) and are fluent at some selections of those
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Seniority level
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type Full-time
Job function
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet, and Financial Services
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