Senior Data Scientist

Job Title-Senior Data Scientist
Location- Dublin
Job Type-Contract-Remote

About the Client:
Our client is a leading global technology company specializing in telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and enterprise solutions. Founded in 1987 in China, the company focuses on innovation and research, providing products such as smartphones, network infrastructure, and cloud services.

About the Role:
As a senior data scientist, you will join a team of talented experts to apply your deep knowledge of machine learning, mathematics, statistics and modelling skills to the real-life production dataset of Ads. Especially, by leveraging your previous industrial and academic domain experiences, you will bring your unique value to the team and be able to influence across the global teams.

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced computational advertising domain expert passionate about working on problems at the intersection of academic research and applied industrial practice. You will work on some trending/cutting-edge projects using the latest and most advanced technologies available in the domain and to help the Ads business grow and expand globally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct in-depth research and exploration and develop/deploy innovative advertising algorithms tailored to specific scenes and business applications, such as pCTR/pCVR optimization, inventory allocation, and AI-assisted ads content optimization, using state-of-the-art methodologies.
• Identify ways to improve ad data/product reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Engage regular A/B tests and statistical analysis to conclude the impact of proposed models.
• Monitor, analyse, and tune the performance of measurement metrics specific to each targeted ad application domain.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including field experts, product owners, and internal stakeholders to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and R&D decisions.

Requirements:

• Master's/PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics and Physics).
• 4 years + of proven experience in delivering machine learning products. Knowledge and working experience with recommender systems/reinforcement learning/data governance/privacy are preferred.
• In-depth understanding and experience in data analytics or data science with rich experience (2 years +) working with advertising-related data or in the computational advertising field.
• Solid understanding and expertise in developing machine learning models with Python and TensorFlow.
• Strong analytic skills in working with structured/unstructured datasets.
• Experience with SQL or HIVE SQL, understanding the basic principles and tuning strategies of Hive/MySQL.
• Excellent communication skills to elaborate ideas clearly and concisely in writing and orally to individuals and groups.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss it further, please call Nidhi at +353 1 645 5244 or email [email protected].