Data Science Intern (Summer Internship)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. How? With a media-buying platform that helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and sets a new standard for global reach, accuracy, and transparency.

So if you’re talented, driven, creative, and hungry to bring something entirely new and wildly ambitious into the world (and have some fun doing it), then we want to talk.

The Trade Desk is a global technology company with a mission to make the Internet better for everyone – consumers, content owners, and marketers – through principled, intelligent advertising.

Our platform operates at an unprecedented scale. Handling over 11 million requests per second, we process more queries than searches on Google, tweets on Twitter, and snaps on Snapchat combined. It doesn't get much bigger or faster than this. And after 10+ years of being among the fastest growing companies in the world, we are still just getting started...

We have also built something even stronger and more valuable: an award-winning culture based on trust, empathy, collaboration, and ownership. Our teams work across lines that often divide at other companies, because we are more than just builders or innovators or visionaries or problem solvers... We are a team who through shared challenges, setbacks, and successes, has become more than the sum of our parts.

The Data Science team is responsible for transforming the data we generate from our 600 billion queries per day into actionable intelligence using advanced modeling and optimization algorithms.

So if you’re talented, driven, creative, and hungry to bring something entirely new and wildly ambitious into the world (and have some fun doing it), then we want to talk!

What you’ll do

As an intern on the Data Science team, you will:

• Own a meaningful project. Have the opportunity to contribute to the development of new and existing data products, experiencing firsthand the day-to-day life of a professional data scientist. We believe strongly in ownership at The Trade Desk, and we are committed to you having something substantial to show for your time here that will make a positive impact for the team.
• Receive one-on-one mentorshipfrom an experienced Data Scientist and members of the Data Science team.
• Collaborate with a globally-connected team where you will also interact closely with our product, trading, and engineering teams to oversee the implementation of your projects.

The Data Science team is working on:

• Optimization: How do we decide what ads to show to who and when to maximize the return on investment for an advertising campaign? How do we apply that decision making algorithm 11 million times per second, for thousands of advertising campaigns at once?
• Forecasting:Can we predict with confidence how many people will be reached by an advertising campaign, and how much it will cost to reach them? Can we do that months in advance?
• Experimental design:How do we measure the impact of any changes we introduce to our optimization models? How do we quantify any tradeoffs those models may introduce (e.g., you pay more for each ad impression, but each impression is more valuable)?
• Causal inference:How do we determine what ads are performing best? What does it mean to have a high performing campaign? (Hint: clicks aren't the answer!)

Who you are

You might be a great fit for a Data Science internship at The Trade Desk if you:

• Are enthusiastic to learn (and teach) new technologies, machine learning techniques, and advancements in the AdTech industry.
• Have an abundance of intellectual curiosity.
• Have a deep understanding of statistical machine learning and optimization techniques.
• Want to work with big data technologies such as Spark and AWS.
• Have experience in at least one programming language (Python, R, Scala, Java, etc.) and are comfortable with SQL by the start of the internship.
• Are able to deliver a convincing story derived from data to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Are enrolled in a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree program and majoring in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Physical science or any major with a concentration on math and computation.
• Have an expected graduation date between Fall and Summer.
• Can work in our Shanghai office (if our office is still closed for health & safety precautions, the internship program will be remote).

What you’re looking for

Do you want to work on a meaningful and impactful project that makes a difference? Are you eager to innovate? Do you want unique, large-scale, and highly complex challenges involving technology that is brand-new to you?