THIS POSITION REQUIRES AT LEAST PART-TIME WORK IN OUR OFFICE IN CARLSBAD, CA

At Ezoic, we build a platform to help online publishers (i.e. Internet websites) improve their monetization and ensure a fantastic user experience. Our all-in-one digital publishing platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools that automate many of the technical aspects of running a successful website so publishers can focus on connecting with their audience and writing great content.

Artificial Intelligence is at the core of everything that we do, and we are looking for a motivated, creative, results-oriented data scientist to develop novel, scalable models that improve website experiences for tens of millions of visitors each day. This is a high-impact position that will contribute to the very heart of our product.

What you'll do:

• Develop machine learning models using our in-house neural network architecture, open-source tools, or custom solutions built from scratch.
• Develop new predictive modeling techniques to increase customer revenue, reduce the page load time, improve user experience, and move other key metrics.
• Perform ad hoc analyses and modeling projects across our business, from marketing to business intelligence to the core product.
• Maintain rigorous experimental design practices in a fast-moving environment.

What you'll need:

• Be willing to relocate near Carlsbad, CA and work in the office in person at least part of the time
• BS or MS degree in computer science with relevant courses in machine learning
• 3+ years experience in developing production machine learning systems.
• Experience in one or more of: traditional machine learning models, online learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, representation learning.
• Strong coding experience with Python
• Strong SQL skills
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent oral and written communication abilities to share results and insights with a non-technical audience
• Experience in the full lifecycle of machine learning component/model including data collection, exploration, feature engineering, model training/testing, offline and online experimentation, packaging, and deployment to production.
• Ability to work with large, noisy datasets and identify meaningful patterns that provide actionable results
• Comfortable reaching out to domain experts to seek the knowledge you need

Extra Brownie Points:

• Ability to take a feature description and deliver a robust service in production (Docker or TensorFlow Serving)
• Experience with ML/DL algorithms with frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark
• Experience with distributed tools (Spark, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience in related industries (Search, Advertisement, Publishing)
• Experience interacting with multiple teams working responsible for various parts of the software platform
• Familiarity with web development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
• Experience of Golang or C++

Life as an Ezoic Data Scientist:

Our technology reaches tens of millions of people every month and adoption is growing quickly. Ezoic is a technology-first company. Our CEO is a developer by trade, and our engineers are given all the tools needed to succeed. We empower our engineers to make a lot of their own decisions about both design and implementation and encourage them to come up with new ideas to improve the application. We also aim to keep a good work-life balance, based on our philosophy that happy engineers are more productive. We want you to be working on something that you are passionate about and allow engineers to move around to keep things fresh.

We have a new office in Carlsbad, CA, which is currently open to employees who wish to work in the office, and there are no covid requirements. WE ARE ONLY LOOKING FOR DATA SCIENTISTS WHO ARE IN OR WILLING TO RELOCATE TO THE CARLSBAD, CA AREA. Ezoic provides relocation assistance for relocating to Carlsbad. 

Every Data Scientist works at their own quad-monitor set up on a standing desk. We pride ourselves on getting stuff done, but when you need a break, Ezoic offers great perks, including unlimited vacation time, catered lunches, snacks, flexible hours, ping pong, video games, and pool. Paired with our unlimited PTO policy, we encourage individual volunteerism and offer company-wide volunteer opportunities.  Other benefits include a 401(K) matching plan, comprehensive health insurance, parental and maternity benefits, and stock options!_ Ezoic is a global company committed to an inclusive environment, employing a diverse workforce representing the world we live in. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, or other applicable legally protected status or characteristics._

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