Applied Scientist I, Ads Trust

The Ads Trust Science team, based in Bangalore, is responsible for ensuring that ads are relevant and is of good quality, leading to higher conversion for the sellers and providing a great experience for the customers. We deal with one of the world’s largest product catalog, handle billions of requests a day with plans to grow it by order of magnitude and use automated systems to validate tens of millions of offers submitted by thousands of merchants in multiple countries and languages.
In this role, you will build and develop ML models to address content understanding problems in Ads. These models will rely on a variety of visual and textual features requiring expertise in both domains. These models need to scale to multiple languages and countries. You will collaborate with engineers and other scientists to build, train and deploy these models. As part of these activities, you will develop production level code that enables moderation of millions of ads submitted each day.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
- Experience researching about machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, data science
- Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
- Are enrolled in or have completed a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Statistics, or related fields

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Master's degree

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