About the Role
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join a team of applied research within the AI department. This department provides technologies that power campaign outcomes with a total yearly turnover of $1.7B, running large-scale prediction and control systems for ad delivery.
Responsibilities
- Stay at the forefront of AdTech research, focusing on CTR prediction, online learning regimes, and high-dimensional embeddings.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify research gaps and translate them into production-ready features.
- Lead the end-to-end process from reading research papers to A/B testing and monitoring model performance in a live environment.
- Dedicate time to 'deep-work' sessions, testing unconventional hypotheses and new algorithmic approaches.
Requirements
- An advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in a quantitative field or equivalent 'in-the-trenches' industry experience.
- 4–5 years of experience in applied research, specifically deploying ML algorithms into high-throughput online environments.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.
- The ability to dismantle a scientific paper, critique its methodology, and implement its core findings effectively.
- A knack for making the complex simple and explaining technical concepts clearly.
Skills
- CTR prediction
- Online learning regimes
- High-dimensional embeddings
- ML algorithms
- Software engineering fundamentals
- Scientific paper analysis
- Communication
Location
- New York, New York
Work Type
- Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
Experience Level
- 4-5 years
Education Level
- MSc/PhD or equivalent industry experience
Benefits
- Continuous investment in employees' skills: in-house and external training, internal mobility
- 22 days off per year
- Premium work equipment
- Enjoyable work environment (work-life balance, team building events, summits)
- Remote work subsidy
- Promoting Diversity & Inclusion with internal & external initiatives
About the Company
- Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens.
- Leverages predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement.
- Directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally.
- Headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.
- Build efficient and easy-to-use web products used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
- Utilizes a rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture (mostly Scala and TypeScript) to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
- Operates in a very high-traffic environment (2.2 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints.
- Manages large datasets with milliseconds order of magnitude access time to compute complex auction resolution algorithms in near real-time.
- Operates in a fast-changing environment, continuously collaborating with Product teams and adapting Cloud infrastructure.
- Works in an international environment with offices located in Israel, Slovenia and France.
- The AI department currently consists of 50 people who are a mix of data scientists, machine learning and backend engineers.
- The department provides technologies that power outcomes of campaigns with a total yearly turn over of $1.7B.
- Runs large scale prediction and control systems for ad delivery, dealing with millions of live ads, doing more than a billion predictions per second based on large on-line trained models being updated every 5 minutes.
- We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.
- Thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.
- Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.
- Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive.
- Foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Equal Opportunity
- Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.
