Principal Engineer Consultant in Adtech - Data Science & AI Department

Principal Engineer Consultant in Adtech - Data Science & AI Department

Paris

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.

About the opportunity

We are seeking a Principal Engineer Consultant for our Data Science & AI department, with deep experience in the advertising industry, to join a team of passionate engineers who build advertising solutions at world scale. We build and operate large-scale distributed machine learning systems that make 1B predictions per second during real-time auctions.

The Principal position at Teads represents the highest level of seniority on the IC ladder. They are tackling cross-functional, strategical, and pivotal initiatives, prioritizing robust engineering choices. Principals are working closely with the Leadership, Product and Engineering teams, all while fostering a culture of excellence.

What will you do?

As a Principal Engineer in our Data Science & AI Department your mission will be to:

• Stay on top of the state-of-the-art science and technology of large scale advertising systems
• Areas of interest are models for CTR and CVR, foundation models for recommendation systems, on-line learning, cold start, embeddings for users, ads and similar, ad matching and ranking, pacing and optimal bidding, auction design, etc.
• Work with teams of data scientists and machine learning engineers to identify investment opportunities
• Help the teams across the organization in implementing the solutions as an advisor
• On projects you choose you will be a part of the implementation team where you will be expected to participate in bringing them projects to the production environment
• Work with product managers to find data science and AI projects with best cost/benefit risk/reward ratios
• Spend time experimenting with new approaches by yourself
• Follow industrial and academic research, occasionally publish at conferences

What will you bring to the team?

• Deep experience of the ad tech industry use of AI and data science
• Strong communication skills, working collaboratively with the team, able to teach concepts, and communicate complicated topics to expert audiences
• Strong problem solving skills, and ability to align teams on solutions
• True scientist skills: fast learner, curious, sense of details, rigorous
• Experience in Statistics (i.e. statistical analysis, regression analysis, …) and/or Artificial Intelligence (i.e. Data Mining, Machine Learning, …)
• Ability to read scientific articles, to analyze critically, and to implement as appropriate
• Good taste in architecture of AI systems

The team

• The AI department currently consists of 50 people who are a mix of data scientists, machine learning and backend engineers
• Your peers will all have deep experience from on-line ad systems from Teads and previous companies. We are staying at the bleeding edge of research and technology
• The department provides technologies that power outcomes of campaigns with a total yearly turn over of $1.7B
• 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

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:

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