Our team focuses on understanding and predicting how the user interacts with the ads on the search results page. The probability that a user will click on an ad is one of the most critical inputs used in ranking the ads. Similarly, the probability of interacting with the advertiser’s page is important for measuring advertiser and user satisfaction. This position as an Applied Scientist II is for the modeling team, which builds machine learned models for predicting such events. The team looks at all aspects of modeling including training data, features, the actual model (neural nets, linear models, decision trees etc.) and offline and online evaluation of those models. Engineers and scientists on our team work at the edge of machine learning and economics developing in the online stack as well as offline workflows. At its core, our team utilizes signals of user and advertiser intent to determine which ads are allocated and at what price.

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• Designing and building efficient models for predicting user interactions with ads and advertiser’s pages.
• Designing and overseeing large-scale, long-term experiments to improve the health of the marketplace using advanced statistics and machine learning.
• Designing automation algorithms for advertisers using techniques from AI and ML to improve advertiser’s return on investment.
• Develop models for causal reasoning using techniques from AI, ML, and statistics.

Required Qualifications:

Applied Sciences IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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