Principal Engineer Consultant in Adtech - Data Science & AI Department

As a Principal Engineer in our Data Science & AI Department your mission will be to:

• Stay on top of the state-of-the-art science and technology of large scale advertising systems


• Areas of interest are models for CTR and CVR, foundation models for recommendation systems, on-line learning, cold start, embeddings for users, ads and similar,ad matching and ranking, pacing and optimal bidding, auction design, etc.


• Work with teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers to identify investment opportunities


• Help the teams across the organization in implementing the solutions as an advisor


• On projects you choose you will be a part of the implementation team where you will be expected to participate in bringing them projects to the production environment


• Work with product managers to find data science and AI projects with best cost/benefit risk/reward ratios


• Spend time experimenting with new approaches by yourself


• Follow industrial and academic research, occasionally publish at conferences

What will you bring to the team?

• Deep experience of the ad tech industry use of AI and data science


• Strong communication skills, working collaboratively with the team, able to teach concepts, and communicate complicated topics to expert audiences


• Strong problem solving skills, and ability to align teams on solutions


• True scientist skills: fast learner, curious, sense of details, rigorous


• Experience in Statistics (i.e. statistical analysis, regression analysis, …) and/or Artificial Intelligence (i.e. Data Mining, Machine Learning, …)


• Ability to read scientific articles, to analyze critically, and to implement as appropriate


• Good taste in architecture of AI systems

The team

• The AI department currently consists of 50 people who are a mix of data scientists, machine learning and backend engineers


• Your peers will all have deep experience from on-line ad systems from Teads and previous companies. We are staying at the bleeding edge of research and technology


• 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