Senior Data Scientist

PulsePoint ™, a global programmatic advertising platform, fuses the science of programmatic targeting, distribution and optimization with the art of brand engagement. The PulsePoint platform is powered by terabytes of impression-level data, allowing brands to efficiently engage the right audiences at scale while helping publishers increase yield through actionable insights.

• Work on challenging fundamental data science problems in online advertising.
• Help clients gain greater audience transparency and deeper engagement across digital channels at unprecedented scale, to develop high-performance algorithms for precision targeting, testing and implementing the algorithms in scalable, product-ready code.
• Research and investigate academic and industrial data mining, machine learning and modeling techniques to apply to specific business cases.
• Use thorough knowledge of Big Data and technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Hive, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, or NoSQL.

Requirements:

• MS/PhD in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science or BS with several years of applied Machine Learning experience.
• 3+ Years as a Data Scientist, preferable in the Digital Advertising/Media Space
• Experience in data product development

Special Requirements:

• Strong background in designing, deploying, and optimizing parameters for advanced machine learning and analytic models.
• Thorough knowledge of algorithms commonly used in data science, machine learning, and collaborative filtering with aptitude for original research.
• Experience in Python and SciPy/NumPy/Matplotlib/Pandas/Sci-Kit Learn coding skills.
• Knowledge of and at least two years of experience using core Java programming.