Senior Data Scientist

About Teads

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.

For more information, visit www.teads.com.

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join a team of passionate engineers who build premium solutions at scale. Every day, we tackle ambiguous and stimulating challenges. We build and operate large-scale distributed machine learning systems that process 1B predictions per second during real-time auctions.

What will you do?

As a Senior Data Scientist, your mission will be to:

• Improve existing algorithms & tools allowing to explore and analyze more and more data and provide accurate feedback on the Teads activities.

• Develop new algorithms & new approaches to provide accurate predictions and drive new products by providing business insights.

• Implement your algorithms and models end to end.

• Collaborate with a variety of teams to develop services from design to production.

• Make sure the software is in good hands by writing, running and automating tests (unit, functional, load...).

• Keep up to date with the latest Machine Learning technologies to make sure we always use the best class algorithms according to the context.

• Shape how billions of people discover and enjoy premium content by improving ad relevance, quality, and efficiency across Teads’ global publisher network.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong communication skills, working collaboratively with the team, able to teach concepts, and communicate clearly to a wide audience of complicated topics.

• Strong problem solving skills, and deducing from specific problems wider range products.

• True scientist skills: fast learner, curious, sense of details, rigorous.

• Experience in Statistics (i.e. statistical analysis, regression analysis, …) and Artificial Intelligence (i.e. Data Mining, Machine Learning, …).

• An appetite for Data Science applied to high-volumetry, low-latency topics.

• Ability to read scientific articles, to analyze critically, and to implement as appropriate.

• Good programming abilities.

• You are very mindful about your application architecture, performance, testing and maintainability and its overall quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with coding ML based solutions in high scale systems

• Relevant industry experience / publications in ad-tech and recommender system

• MSc/PhD in computer science / math

• Industry experience in building engineering at scale

• Large-scale distributed systems, service oriented architecture.

• Previous experience with all or some of the elements of our Stack (we mainly use Go, Python, Java, AWS, Jupyter notebooks).

• Knowledge in data engineering.

• Ability to transform raw data into actionable business insights

• Please submit your CV in English.

• Life at Teads

• 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.

As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out:

• 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.

• As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning.

• Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role.

• Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance.

• Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment.

• 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.