Designation – Senior Data Scientist
Location – Chennai
About employer– YuMe
Job description:
Responsibilities
- Design optimization algorithms for ad targeting and delivery at ad-serving time
- Build a statistics driven ad optimization system, working closely with the product team
- Constantly experiment and improve the relevancy of the ad-delivery optimization system
Typical Work Day
- Measure and understand what our audience looks like and wants
- Use these measurements to target audience segments at scale
- Optimize YuMe operations
- Derive and define key metrics to analyze and optimize business based on strategic goals
How We Get Things Done
- Work closely with PM Team to understand & analyze requirements
- Help create design documentation & review the same with the team
- Collaborate with teams across geographies to finalize design documents
- Help create low level design & test case for the module/feature
- Help write code & work with version management tools
- Own a feature/module & take it till go live
- Should help write & execute unit test cases
- Should help write & execute functional, integration test cases
- Should help contribute in code review & improve guideline documents
- Should help analyze & fix issues found post development
- Actively contribute in supporting product on need basis
- Participate in design review of other features
- Work with solutions engineering teams to streamline the go-live process of new releases.
Qualification and Skills Required
- D. in Math/Statistics/Computer Science or equivalent with an emphasis on programming
- Strong understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures and Machine Learning / Data Mining
- Experience with math/statistics tools such as R or MATLAB
- Solid understanding of yield management
- Solid understanding of control theory and Markov decision processes
- Solid understanding of numerical optimization (linear, integer, nonlinear, and dynamic programming)
- Solid understanding of forecasting
- Previous experience in digital ad serving optimization a huge plus
- Previous experience in digital advertising and ad targeting a big plus
- Previous experience in web analytics a big plus
- Experience with Machine Learning / Data Mining open source tools, preferably in Java (e.g., Weka)
- Experience with Hadoop Map/Reduce, Hadoop streaming, Pig, or Hive
- Ability to work in a fast paced, test-driven collaborative and iterative programming environment
Education and Years of Experience
- MS/PhD in Computer science, Statistics or related fields is required. Recent Ph.D. graduates or Ph.D. candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- 7+ years of experience; majority of experience should be in the online advertising industry.
- 5+ years designing/developing large-scale internet software systems.
Interested people can apply for this job can mail their CV to [email protected] with subject as Senior Data Scientist – YuMe – Chennai
