Senior Data Scientist

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong data-stringify-type="bold">About Teads</strong></p> <p><br>Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries.</p> <p>For more information, visit <a href="https://www.teads.com">www.teads.com.</a></p></div><div> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our main Engineering challenges at Teads</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build&nbsp;<strong>efficient and easy-to-use web products</strong>&nbsp;used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture</strong>&nbsp;to optimize for&nbsp;<strong>performance, scalability, resiliency</strong>, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Working in a very&nbsp;<strong>high-traffic</strong>&nbsp;environment (2.2 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Management of&nbsp;<strong>large datasets</strong>&nbsp;with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A fast-changing environment where we continuously&nbsp;<strong>collaborate with Product teams</strong>&nbsp;and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for&nbsp;<strong>new features and Products</strong>.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work in an international environment with offices located in Israel, Slovenia and France.</span></p> </li> </ul> </div> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the opportunity&nbsp;</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for a <strong>Senior</strong> <strong>Data Scientist</strong> to join a team of applied research.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The AI department currently consists of 50 people who are a mix of data scientists, machine learning and backend engineers. </span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The department provides technologies that power outcomes of campaigns with a total yearly turn over of $1.7B.&nbsp;</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What will you do?</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As a&nbsp;<strong>Data Scientist</strong>, your mission will be to:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Innovate at Scale:</strong> Stay at the forefront of AdTech research, focusing on CTR prediction, online learning regimes, and high-dimensional embeddings.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Bridge Research &amp; Engineering:</strong> Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify research gaps and translate them into production-ready features.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Own the Lifecycle:</strong> Lead the end-to-end process—from reading the latest ArXiv papers to A/B testing and monitoring model performance in a live environment.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Experiment Freely:</strong> Dedicate time to "deep-work" sessions, testing unconventional hypotheses and new algorithmic approaches.</span></li> </ul> <h2 id="EMGoffer-Whatyoubringtotheteam"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What will you bring to the team?</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Foundation:</strong> <strong>An advanced degree</strong> (MSc/PhD) in a quantitative field or equivalent "in-the-trenches" industry experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Toolkit:</strong> +<strong>8 years of experience in applied research, specifically deploying ML algorithms into high-throughput online environments.</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Hybrid Edge:</strong> <strong>Strong software engineering fundamentals</strong>; you don’t just design models, you understand how they fit into the code stack.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Critical Thinking:</strong> <strong>The ability to dismantle a scientific paper</strong>, critique its methodology, and implement its core findings effectively.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Communication:</strong> A knack for making the complex simple. You can explain a transformer-based ranking system to a peer or a product manager with equal clarity.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Please submit your CV in English.</strong></span></p> <h4><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>We care about you&nbsp;</strong></span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Career Development: Continuous investment in our employees’ skills: in-house and external training, internal mobility …</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Life Balance: A well-balanced work-life for our employees is one of our top priorities: 22 days off per year, hybrid work (3 days per week in the office)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wellness: Prioritizing employee well-being through premium work equipment, enjoyable work environment (work-life balance, team building events, summits), remote work subsidy, promoting Diversity &amp; Inclusion with internal &amp; external initiatives, etc.&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>#LI-Hybrid</strong></span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Life at Teads</strong></p> <p>At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies.</p> <p>As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:</p> <ul> <li>We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web.</li> <li>As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.</li> <li>Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.</li> </ul> <p>Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.</p> <p>Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.</p> <p>Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.</p></div>