Staff Applied Scientist

Staff Applied Scientist position at The Trade Desk in London, working on marketplace execution, curation, and inventory science, requiring expertise in machine learning, statistics, and data science.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in data science, statistics, machine learning, economics, applied math, computer science, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in data science or 5+ years of experience with a PhD
• Experience of owning projects end-to-end (from research to productionization at scale)
• Strong grounding in machine learning, statistics, experimental design, causal inference, and metric development
• Experience with recommendation systems or ranking models
• Experience with large-scale data processing (e.g., Spark, EMR, Databricks)
• Comfortable with practices that enable reproducible analyses and useful prototypes—clean code, version control, and code review

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship