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Who are we:
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
Your skills:
Non-Technical - 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 worked with scrum teams to deliver end to end solutions
- 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 - Experience in digital advertising data landscape, look-a-like modeling,
delivering large size models for real time applications is a plus.
Technical Qualifications - A relevant scientific and mathematical education (Masters and/or PhD
welcome) with 9+ 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, optimization
techniques, deep learning as well as the ability to derive actionable insights
from massive data sets - 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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