Data Scientist Intern

Teads, The Global Media Platform, has an engineering team that brings together 200+ talented individuals in 3 main locations (Montpellier, Paris, and Bucharest). We are organized in agile and autonomous feature teams and share technical knowledge within several communities of practice.

To innovate, we promote diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Our organization gives the possibility to work remotely part of the time and more flexibility is open to discussion. 

???? Join a team of passionate people who build quality and responsible advertising, at scale!

Our main Engineering challenges at Teads

• Working in a very high-traffic environment (1.9 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds).
• Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others.
• Management of large datasets with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second).
• Build efficient and easy-to-use web products used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies.
• A fast-changing environment where we continuously collaborate with Product teams and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for new features and Products.
• Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge.

What will you do?

As a Data Scientist Intern, your missions will be to:

• Work closely with our team of data scientists and engineers to understand the issues facing our SSP and the challenges associated with real-time optimization.
• Discover and apply our feature engineering techniques to improve the quality and relevance of the data used by our algorithms.
• Explore deep learning algorithms and assess their relevance to our SSP.
• Develop prototypes and carry out AB tests to measure potential impacts.
• Work with our engineers to integrate improvements and new models into our SSP platform

What will you bring to the team?

• Final year of engineering school or master’s degree in computer science, specializing in machine learning and/or data science.
• Programming skills, particularly in Python and/or Scala.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and feature engineering techniques would be a plus.
• Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people.
• Initiative, creativity, and the ability to work autonomously.
• Initial experience of an internship or project in machine learning and/or programmatic advertising would be a plus

Why work at Teads?

At Teads, Product and Engineering work hand in hand and are aligned towards the same goal: to scale our business while continuing to create new and exciting products.

• We value team spirit, pragmatism, listening and we encourage initiatives.
• We promote end-to-end development: “You build it, you run it, you monitor it”.
• We share knowledge and support with each other beyond any organizational boundary.
• We fix issues during a blameless postmortem and learn from it so that it doesn’t happen twice.
• We are working together to create great engineering, but we are also supportive to promote a great work-life balance.

We care about you:

• Security & Savings: Attractive package providing financial peace of mind, including competitive compensation, profit-sharing, daily meal vouchers (Swile), family health insurance (Alan), and a personalized relocation package (if needed).
• Career Development: Continuous investment in our employees’ skills: in-house and external training, tech conference opportunities, internal mobility (individual contributor or management career ladder).
• Life Balance: A well-balanced work-life for our employees is one of our top priorities: 35+ days off per year, hybrid work (2-3 days remote work per week, more is open to discussion), fully covered parental leave, and reserved daycare places.
• Wellness: Prioritizing employee well-being through premium work equipment, enjoyable work environment (work-life balance, team building events, summits), remote work subsidy, promoting Diversity & Inclusion with internal & external initiatives (women speaking groups, dedicated school partnerships), dedicated charitable time and sustainability actions (Eco Tree, subsidy for eco-mobility).

Discover more about our culture and benefits on our Engineering website. 

About Teads

Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. 

As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies. For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers and content providers. 

Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach billions of unique monthly users in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions. 

Teads partners with the leading marketers, agencies and publishers through a team of 1,200+ people in 50 offices across more than 30 countries. 

We’re committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, and represents employees across a variety of skill sets. We embrace contributions from all ages, sexes, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations and gender identities.

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