Data Scientist II

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. They are seeking a Data Scientist II to design and optimize algorithms, analyze large datasets, and collaborate with teams to deliver data science projects that align with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize scalable graph-based algorithms to enhance internal graph products
• Optimize large-scale algorithmic systems operating on terabyte-scale datasets using distributed computing frameworks
• Develop custom data science solutions from first principles, leveraging advanced techniques in probability and statistics, machine learning, and graph mining, especially in contexts where off-the-shelf models are ineffective
• Analyze large datasets and build statistical models at scale on top of terabytes worth of data to generate actionable insights for products improvement
• Conduct scientific analysis to validate third-party data and evaluate whether they are useful for products
• Conduct best-subset selection using information theory-based approaches to enhance targeting and performance strategies
• Automate and monitor workflows using orchestration tools (e.g. Apache Airflow) to ensure reliable data pipeline execution
• Own the end-to-end data products lifecycle, including identifying research questions, exploratory data analysis, methods design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and presenting results to relevant stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical design, implementation, and delivery of data science projects align with business objectives and product roadmap