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

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