Principal Engineer Consultant in Adtech - Data Science & AI Department

About the opportunity We are seeking a Principal Engineer Consultant for our Data Science & AI department, with deep experience in the advertising industry, to join a team of passionate engineers who build advertising solutions at world scale. We build and operate large-scale distributed machine learning systems that make 1B predictions per second during real-time auctions.

The Principal position at Teads represents the highest level of seniority on the IC ladder. They are tackling cross-functional, strategical, and pivotal initiatives, prioritizing robust engineering choices. Principals are working closely with the Leadership, Product and Engineering teams, all while fostering a culture of excellence.

What will you do?

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

Life at Teads