Data Scientist Intern, Ads Performance

The Impact You'll Be Contributing to Moloco:

• Moloco Ads: Data Science team’s mission is to drive building the best-in-class Moloco Ads products with data. As a Data Scientist intern in the Moloco Ads team, you will work on performance improvement of existing Moloco Ads products as well as building a new product by providing data-driven insights and scientific solutions.
• Moloco Commerce Media: Moloco Commerce Media enables marketplaces to leverage the recent advances in AI for delivering tailored ads to relevant users, driven by first-party data. The Data Science team supports growth by supporting the launch of new features through modeling, algorithmic and analytic excellence. As a data scientist within Moloco Commerce Media, you will be tasked with designing the entire “data-driven” ad-delivery ecosystem including ranking, retrieval, pricing, and bidding processes. Also, you will have the opportunity to solve several important challenges related to ML algorithms, mathematical optimizations, and A/B testings, etc.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

• Data mining: providing refined data as input to machine learning algorithms by closely working with data pipeline and machine learning infrastructure engineering teams.
• Data analysis: analyzing and visualizing data from lots of mobile apps to provide insights to existing and future campaigns using standard tools including SQL and charting libraries.
• Data validation: verifying the first party data we obtain from ad exchange and the third party mobile app tracking solutions so that our campaign models get trained with accurate data.
• Strategy Optimization: researching the advanced optimization approach through a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end ranking, retrieval, and bidding systems.
• System Design: designing and implementing the internal Ad serving simulation tool for hypothesis testing and impact estimation using python.

Minimum Requirements:

• able to complete an internship of at least 3-6 months
• Bachelor's degree in data science related field required, Master's degree preferred and PhD welcomed.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required.
• Great communication skills required
• Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Economics and Computer Science majors preferred.
• Experience in SQL or other data analytics language preferred.
• Knowledge in statistical machine learning models preferred.
• Programming experience with any language preferred.
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects at a time while paying attention to detail.
• Fast learner and self-initiative personality.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of business and industry in general, more preferably experienced to ad tech companies

***This position does not support work-from-home arrangements.*