Staff applied Scientist , Inventory & Marketplace Quality

Thetradedesk

Bellevue, United States
On-site
Statistical and machine learning models
Detect fraud and invalid traffic
Large-scale environments
The Trade Desk is seeking a Lead Staff Data Scientist to join its Marketplace Quality Engineering team in Bellevue, Denver, or San Jose. This role involves defining the data science roadmap, developing models to detect fraud and improve inventory quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance marketplace integrity

Job Summary

  • The Marketplace Quality Engineering (MQE) team builds systems to detect and prevent fraud, measure and improve inventory quality, and optimize marketplace dynamics.
  • In this role, you will provide technical and strategic leadership by defining the data science roadmap, owning end-to-end development of advanced modeling and analytical systems, and partnering with engineering, product, and business leaders.
  • You will design, build, and productionize statistical and machine learning models to detect fraud, invalid traffic, and low-quality inventory in adversarial, large-scale environments.

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The Trade Desk is seeking a Lead Staff Data Scientist to join its Marketplace Quality Engineering team in Bellevue, Denver, or San Jose. This role involves defining the data science roadmap, developing models to detect fraud and improve inventory quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance marketplace integrity.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • statistical and machine learning models
  • detect fraud and invalid traffic
  • large-scale environments
  • define and maintain metrics
  • experimentation procedures
  • monitoring systems
  • analytical and explainability frameworks

Nice-to-have

  • technical and strategic leadership
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • proactive risk anticipation
  • mentorship and best practices

Key Requirements

  • Staff-level technical leader
  • Set standards for analytical rigor

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Not specified

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