The Trade Desk is looking to solve hard problems at scale in the AI domain to build a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience working with AI-related research and applications.
- Strong programming and big data processing skills.
- Experience in making machine learning or data mining algorithms work on massive amounts of data.
- Deep expertise and extensive hands-on experience in some of the following areas is a plus: Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, Generative AI technologies, Large-scale data mining.
Responsibilities
- Driving technical projects and providing leadership in a groundbreaking and fast-paced environment.
- Task planning, conducting code reviews, and individual code contributions.
- Developing solutions from first principles and intuition and adapting them to a unique environment.
- Contributing to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and push forward one of the world’s largest and most influential industries toward a vision of openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Pitching ideas to different audiences at all levels.
- Turning the latest AI publications into solutions for real-world problems or ideas for novel product creation.
- Making machine learning or data mining algorithms work on massive amounts of data.
Other
- Proven Expertise: Sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful AI-based projects.
- Product Focus: Passion and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients.
- Start-up Mentality: Accustomed to start-up culture. Embrace risks, make smart investments, and stay agile when priorities shift.
- Collaborative Confidence: Work with confidence and without ego. Advocate for what you believe is right. Adept at identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and quick to support your teammates.
- Diversity and Inclusion: Value, seek out, and foster diversity. Welcome ideas that are different from your own and are skilled at finding and building from common ground.
- Innovative Thinking: Creative thinker, not bound by 'the way things have always been done.' Learn and innovate.
- Agile Collaboration: Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.
- Effective Communication: Communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences.
