The Trade Desk is looking for Data Scientists to help build and deliver data-focused, high-impact products for their identity products, which are based on large-scale data processing and require cutting-edge data processing frameworks and scalable algorithms. They also act as ambassadors to business partners, championing and evolving identity products as the landscape changes.
Requirements
- You have practical experience with big data technologies such as Spark, AWS, Databricks,
- You are able to use a querying language such as SQL,
- You have practical experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Scala, Python, Java, or R.
- You have practical experience in large-scale graph mining.
- You have 7+ years of experience working as a professional data scientist/analyst or in a research role (includes PhD or post-doc experience in a quantitative discipline).
- Leverage your broad familiarity with basic concepts in probability and statistics, along with exposure to basic foundations of computer science, graph mining, and machine learning.
- What we care about is that you can learn quickly and find solutions to complex problems using the optimum tools for the job.
Responsibilities
- Make significant, self-directed contributions to components of large and impactful data-focused projects.
- Utilize your strong sense of data intuition. At our scale, many off-the-shelf modeling techniques (open source and enterprise) simply don't work. You will work from first principles and intuition to develop solutions and adapt them to a unique environment.
- Leverage your broad familiarity with basic concepts in probability and statistics, along with exposure to basic foundations of computer science, graph mining, and machine learning.
- Unlock your product-focused mindset. With your passion and potential, you’ll contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our stakeholders and drive forward one of the world’s largest and most influential industries toward a vision of openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Work with confidence and without ego. Our data scientists have deep knowledge and exercise a high level of leadership in their daily work. You’ll have strongly-held, defensible ideas, and advocate for what you believe is right. You’ll practice identifying and evaluating trade-offs, willing to be proven wrong, and be committed to support your fellow teammates.
- Think creatively, not bound by "the way things have always been done."
- Make your team better through training and mentoring those around you.
Other
- The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to create a better, more open internet for everyone through principled, intelligent advertising.
- We value the unique experiences and perspectives that each person brings to The Trade Desk, and we are committed to fostering inclusive spaces where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work every day.
- Are you eager to join a dynamic, globally connected team where your contributions will make a meaningful difference in building a better media ecosystem?
- Our data scientists also serve as an ambassador to our business partners to champion and evolve our identity products as the identity landscape of the open internet changes.
- You are able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences.
