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Staff Data Scientist

Staff Data Scientist

CompanyIntegral Ad Science
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$135100 – $231600
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s, PhD
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • PhD or masters in a quantitative discipline (e.g., mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, economics, computational neuroscience)
  • 6-10 years experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches and ML methods in a business environment
  • Practical experience building ML systems, ideally using weak supervision and automated data labeling
  • Capable of using SQL to answer key data questions at the drop of a hat
  • Expertise in standard scripting languages used in data science for statistical computation: Python, R
  • Enthusiasm for telling stories with data, deep understanding of how data works and flows through systems to produce business outcomes
  • An innate curiosity about data problems, strongly held commitment to getting to the bottom of things
  • A love of science, the scientific method, and faith in your fellow practitioners in the scientific trade

Responsibilities

  • Drive innovative research within the data science fraud team, improve the accuracy and increase the scope of our IVT (invalid traffic) detection capabilities in web, mobile, CTV, gaming, social media etc.
  • Collaborate with the Threat Lab, understand the nature of evolving fraud schemes and invent creative, quantitative solutions to identify and stop them
  • Develop automated IVT detection systems based on science, data, and ML applications
  • Communicate the value they add to multiple stakeholders across the organization, socialize the predictive power and business value of data-driven ML
  • Join a team of highly motivated ML researchers and developers, own projects from end-to-end, while collaborating with team members, learning, mentoring, contributing to the collective impact data science has on the IAS business
  • Collaborate with engineers to integrate fraud solutions within larger engineering workflows
  • Mentor junior data scientists to innovate and build high quality fraud solutions
  • Respond to internal and client-facing incidents as they arise

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.