[Remote] Applied Scientist II

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. They are seeking an Applied Scientist II to contribute to large-scale data-focused projects, utilizing their expertise in data processing and modeling techniques to develop innovative solutions for identity products.

Responsibilities

• Make significant, self-directed contributions to components of large and impactful data-focused projects. You will think beyond just the task at hand to deeply understand the 'why' behind what you are doing
• Work with data from the open internet that is at large scale—think of tens of millions of transactions per second
• 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 applied 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."
• You will have the opportunity, based on your interests and background, to work on problems related to graph mining and graph merging; algorithmic optimization on petabytes of data; and theoretical information approaches for best-subset selection problems

Skills

• 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 fraud prevention, graph mining, and data quality initiatives
• You have 2+ years of experience working as a professional applied/data scientist/analyst or in a research role (includes PhD or post-doc experience in a quantitative discipline)
• You have a Bachelor's/Master's/PhD level degree in a quantitative discipline
• You have an abundance of curiosity and are eager to learn (and teach) new technologies / techniques
• You are comfortable working on an agile, distributed team spanning multiple time zones and continents
• You are able to communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

• All employees may be eligible to become The Trade Desk shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.
• The Trade Desk also offers other compensation depending on the role such as variable compensation-based incentives and commissions.
• Expected benefits for this role include comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Parental leave
• Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
• Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
• Around 13 paid holidays per year
• Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk
  9s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• The Trade Desk also offers a competitive benefits package.
• Interns are not eligible for variable incentive awards such as stock-based compensation, retirement plan, vacation, tuition reimbursement or parental leave

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