Chief Data Scientist

Company Overview OpenX is dedicated to maximizing the economic potential of digital media companies. We accomplish this by creating digital advertising markets and technologies designed to provide optimal value to publishers and advertisers with every ad served across all screens. At OpenX, we've built a team with unique experience in designing and operating large-scale ad marketplaces. We are constantly seeking thoughtful, creative executors who are as interested as we are in discovering new ways to apply a mix of market design, technical innovation, operational excellence, and empathetic partner service to the frontiers of digital advertising. Who We Are Looking For OpenX Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team in the Data Science Organization. Our exchange processes hundreds of billions of ad requests daily, producing petabytes of new data. This volume requires cutting-edge applications of advanced machine learning models and innovative platforms for efficient functioning and best customer value. We're seeking data scientists with experience in the ad tech programmatic ecosystem, particularly in building advertiser-facing products. The ideal candidate should be able to translate requests from business and product into Data Science / ML problems, and be capable of leading and executing these projects, incorporating state-of-the-art advances from the literature into production systems. Although the role is remote, it is scheduled in the US Eastern time zone. If You Are: - Proactive - Continually seeking satisfying solutions to unexplored questions. - Persistent - Displaying the skills and attitude to lead a project to success and navigate common pitfalls. - Creative - Researching and developing solutions to challenging problems with large datasets. We want to talk with you. Key Responsibilities: - Extract data from terabyte-scale datasets and transform it into compact representations suitable for various models. - Develop and manage ML pipelines to build user audiences that drive outcomes for advertisers. - Tune existing models and products to enhance functionality and introduce new features. - Guide and develop DS/ML projects from inception to production-level deployment while reporting progress and challenges to stakeholders. - Collaborate with other team members to deploy, manage, and synchronize all ML models in production and development. Required Qualifications: - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or an MS with 8+ years of relevant experience. - Proficient in SQL and Python. - Extensive experience with ML techniques beyond common regression, particularly with TensorFlow and its applications. - A strong track record of nurturing DS/ML projects to maturity with maximal business impact, and supporting and improving those projects after deployment. - Mastery of probability and statistics, especially techniques that can handle massive datasets. - Strong communication and presentation skills, able to analyze and summarize key points from a dataset or experiment result. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with a cloud platform like GCP/AWS/Azure, with an emphasis on GCP and the TensorFlow/TFX platform. - Familiarity with other programming languages such as Java and Golang. - Experience mentoring and guiding more junior employees. OpenX Values Our five company values serve as a solid foundation that defines us as a group and guide the company. These values remind us that the method we use to accomplish things often matters as much as the result. - We Are One: We are a unified team of strong and diverse individuals bound by a shared mission. We embrace challenges and win together. We respect and care for our colleagues and foster an inclusive culture. - We Are Customer Centric: We innovate on behalf of our customers. We understand, respect, and listen to our customers. We build excellent products to solve our customers’ problems and clearly manage their expectations. We are a trusted partner to all of our customers, acting with integrity at all times. - We Are OpenX: We value honesty and integrity in all our dealings. - We Are An Open Book: We value transparency and learning from each other. We are eager to share our knowledge with others and to learn from them. - We Evolve Fast: We embrace responsible risk-taking, learn from our mistakes, and adapt quickly to changes. We are driven by curiosity and the pursuit of growth and learning. Equal Employment Opportunity at OpenX OpenX is committed to equal employment opportunities. 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