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As a Principal Applied Scientist, Advertiser Demand Intelligence, you will define the modeling strategy for an advertising recommendations platform by integrating classical machine learning with generative AI. You will architect end-to-end pipelines for data processing, feature stores, and model training to provide daily insights while leading the development of LLM-based components for intelligent narrative generation. Your role involves building prompt frameworks, fine-tuning strategies, and retrieval-augmented techniques to enable conversational responses to complex sales questions. You will manage technical design reviews, mentor team members, and ensure Responsible AI compliance regarding bias and transparency. Required expertise includes Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, Azure cloud technologies, and MLOps tools like MLflow. You will apply these skills to solve problems in predictive modeling, anomaly detection, clustering, and time-series forecasting within a complex advertising data environment.
What does a Applied Scientist earn?
Median $208800 from 47 postings across 10 companies.
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Python
Java
Spark
Hadoop
Optimization Algorithms
Design of Experiments
Statistics
Control Theory
Forecasting
Agile
Production Code