Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join StackAdapt's engineering team as a Data Scientist and contribute to our expanding data science efforts. We're a self-serve advertising platform dealing with millions of requests per second, utilizing cutting-edge technologies. You will innovate ML algorithms to maximize ROI and advertising performance, write production code, and prototype algorithms. StackAdapt is a Remote First company, open to UK-based candidates. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and a supportive culture. Apply now to join our diverse and inclusive team.

Requirements

• Have a Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or a related field, with dual degrees a plus
• Have the ability to take an ambiguously defined task, and break it down into actionable steps
• Have a comprehensive understanding of statistics, optimization and machine learning
• Are proficient in coding, data structures, and algorithms
• Enjoy working in a friendly, collaborative environment with others

Responsibilities

• Innovate ML algorithms to maximize ROI and advertising performance. This ranges from creating entirely new algorithms, to improvements on state-of-the art methods, to development using a deep understanding of classic methods
• Write production code, sometimes collaborating with Data Engineers, to implement the novel ML algorithms
• Prototype potential algorithms and pipelines, test them using historical data, and iterate to modify based on insights

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Private Medical Insurance cover
• Auto-enrolment into the company pension scheme
• Work from home reimbursements
• Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
• An awesome parental leave policy
• A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
• Our social and team events (virtually!)
• Take part in our walk and wander policy and work anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year