About the Role
Our team develops algorithms for our real-time bidding platform to help customers run effective advertising campaigns. Many challenges involve scaling deep learning algorithms, handling sparse/noisy data, large output spaces, and meeting strict latency and QPS requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design, research, build, and deliver data-focused products.
- Participate in all aspects of product lifecycle from ideation to productionalization and monitoring.
- Contribute meaningfully through leading others and raising the bar for the team.
- Proactively advocate for and drive improvements to team processes and deliverables.
- Develop solutions from first principles and adapt them to a unique environment.
- Work with embedded models in always-on production systems.
- Contribute to discovering client delights and advancing the industry towards openness, transparency, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Learn and innovate new technologies and techniques.
Requirements
- Sustained track record of significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to complex machine learning projects.
- Deep understanding of the 'why' behind tasks and anticipation of downstream problems.
- Broadly skilled data scientist with deep expertise in embedded models in production systems.
- Product-focused mindset with the ability to contribute to client delight.
- Confidence and lack of ego, with the ability to advocate for ideas, identify trade-offs, and support teammates.
- Value, seek out, and foster diversity.
- Creative thinker, not bound by traditional methods; ability to learn and innovate.
- Abundance of intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm to learn and teach.
- Comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents.
- Ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
Skills
- Deep learning
- PyTorch
- Python
- Scala
- SQL
- Spark
- EMR
- Ray
- Containerization
- Version control
- Ads modeling
- Recommendation systems modeling
- KPI optimization modeling
- Large-scale advertising platforms
- Lift modeling (conversion lift, brand lift)
Location
- Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
- Distributed
Experience Level
- 3+ years of full-time industry experience with BS/MS
- 2+ years of full-time industry experience with PhD
Education Level
- BS/MS in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field
- PhD in a related quantitative field
Salary/Compensations
- $96,840—$177,540 CAD
Benefits
- Eligibility for stock-based compensation grants
- Variable compensation-based incentives
- Commissions
About the Company
- The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising.
- Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet.
- Advertising powers the content people love, supporting trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators.
- Our platform processes over 1 trillion queries per day, operating at an unprecedented scale.
- We have an award-winning culture based on trust, ownership, empathy, and collaboration.
- We value unique experiences and perspectives and foster inclusive spaces.
- Fortune magazine consistently ranks The Trade Desk among the best small-medium-sized workplaces globally.
Equal Opportunity
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Trade Desk is committed to creating an inclusive hiring experience where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
- Reach out to accommodations@thetradedesk.com to request an accommodation or discuss accessibility needs.
