Data Scientist Intern - US at MOLOCO
Organization Name: MOLOCO
Organization Location: Redwood City, CA
Organization Website: https://www.molocoads.com/en/
Job Title: Data Scientist Intern
About MOLOCO: MOLOCO is a machine learning company that empowers mobile businesses to unleash the power of their data for fast, sustainable growth through the programmatic advertising ecosystem.
About the Data Team: Data scientists at MOLOCO are generally in charge of finding gems from the deluge of our advertising data. You will be earning the privilege of dealing with petabytes of big data on a daily basis. Mining and analyzing those data plays a crucial role in developing our ever-evolving advertising products. Data scientists are indispensable to MOLOCO business since the application of derived knowledge to the ads campaign optimization drives our growth.
What You’ll Do:
Data mining: providing refined data as input to machine learning algorithms by closely working with data pipeline and machine learning infrastructure engineering teams.
Data curation: integrating data from different sources including the first-party mobile app data and some third party public data.
Data analysis: analyzing and visualizing data from lots of mobile apps to provide insights to existing and future campaigns using standard tools including SQL and charting libraries.
Data validation: verifying the first-party data we obtain from ad exchange and the third party mobile app tracking solutions so that our campaign models get trained with accurate data.
Campaign optimization: engaging in the lifecycle of campaigns from the initial look-alike model building to daily monitoring to advanced machine learning model building.
What You’ll Need To Succeed:
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required.
Great communication skills required
Bachelor's degree in data science-related field required, Master's degree preferred and Ph.D. welcomed.
Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Economics and Computer Science majors preferred.
Experience in SQL or other data analytics language preferred.
Knowledge in statistical machine learning models preferred.
Programming experience with any language preferred.
Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects at a time while paying attention to detail.
Fast learner and self-initiative personality.
Job Type: Full-time
Remote Work Available?: Remote WFH until June of 2021. Hybrid model once it is safe
Salary Range: Negotiable
Desired Start Date: Feb 2021
