Senior Data Scientist

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem. We are the largest independent operator of app growth and monetization platforms in the world. We help mobile game developers get more players for new games and maximize revenue from existing games. Our business is based on real-time traffic, where having the best model yields higher-than-proportional benefits. As a Senior Data Scientist, uplifting a model’s accuracy by even a 1% improvement can lead to millions of dollars in revenues.

About the role of the Senior Data Scientist:

• Building Machine Learning (ML) models and deploying them to production on a giant scale (serving 2bn devices globally and handling 200bn requests every day).
• Using ML models to serve various use cases:
  • Predicting mobile users’ favorite games based on their gaming and behavioral history.
  • Predicting the value of users' in-app transactions for mobile game developers.
  • Optimizing bidding prices and strategies in real-time auctions (RTB).
  • Optimizing infrastructure utilization.
  • Detecting and eliminating fraud.
  • Detecting image content in ads.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including Backend, Data Engineering, Frontend, Product, Business, and other Data Scientists who are building ML models for our company.
• Working with cutting-edge technologies including GCP, Google BigQuery, Databricks and Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL), Python, classic ML libraries, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, and Experiment Management platforms such as MLFLOW and Optuna.

About you as the Senior Data Scientist:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field focusing on applied statistics, AI, machine learning, or related disciplines.
• Experience in the AdTech industry (specifically Ad Network) is a must.
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist in the tech scene.
• Strong coding capabilities in Python and SQL.
• Experience with ML models surrounding tabular datasets and cloud environments.
• Prior experience with AB testing and statistical analysis (including significance testing).
• Knowledge of basic and advanced concepts of Machine Learning, with familiarity in Spark, Databricks, MLFLOW, and Big Data technologies being advantageous.
• Ability to mentor others, work in teams, teach, and learn from peers.
• Capability to lead projects from A-Z in the data science domain, including research (both academic and practical), model deployment, monitoring, AB testing, and measuring impact.
• A showcase of business impact created through your work.

This position operates on a hybrid model with a minimum expectation of three days on-site.