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Principal Data Scientist

PulsePoint
Young, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

Description

Function : Engineering, R&D → Data Science / Machine Learning / Operations Research

About PulsePoint :

PulsePoint is a fast-growing healthcare technology company (with adtech roots) using real-time data to transform healthcare. We help brands and agencies interpret the hard-to-read signals across the health journey and unify these digital determinants of health with real-world data to produce the most dimensional view of the customer. Our award-winning advertising platforms use machine learning and programmatic automation to seamlessly activate this data, making marketing, predictive analytics, and decision support easy and instantaneous.

Principal Data Scientist

As a member of our Data Science Engineering team, the Principal Data Scientist will focus on optimizing real-time bidding strategies and auction mechanics to efficiently spend ad budgets and deliver against campaign targets.

In addition to the above, you will work with the greater Data Science / Engineering teams on :

  • Improving existing solutions for page contextualization or developing new techniques;
  • Developing new or improving existing models of event predictions;
  • New feature engineering for multiple machine learning models :
  • Supply embeddings and / or segmentation, and supply quality metrics;
  • Fraud detection, etc.
  • Mining different data sources;
  • Supporting existing codebase for data integration and production support for our core models.

Location : U.S. or EU (for EU candidates, we would expect to end days at 2-3pm EST)

Requirements :

Key Skills : Python, Algorithms, Optimisation, NLP, Data Mining, Statistical Analysis, Neural Networks, Generalised Linear Regression, Multiclass Classification, Java, R

  • Advanced knowledge of Python using standard DS packages (numpy / pandas / scikit, etc.); Being able to optimize and speed-up code.
  • 3 years of RTB Auction or similar online technologies.
  • In addition to the above, you'll need to have strong knowledge in the following areas :

  • Algorithms and Data Structures (e.g., sorting, search tree, binary heap, trie; time & mem complexities of algorithms)
  • Probability and Statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing; Markov process and its stationary distributions, stochastic matrix and its properties; Bayesian inference)
  • ML & DS (e.g., dimensionality reduction, geometry of PCA / SVD and of L1 / L2 regularisation, Decision trees and their ensembles, collaborative filtering, Thompson sampling / MCMC, Neural Networks, etc.)
  • WHAT WE'LL GIVE TO YOU :

  • Comprehensive healthcare with medical, dental, and vision options, and 100%-paid life & disability insurance
  • 401(k) Match
  • Generous paid vacation and sick time
  • Paid parental leave & adoption assistance
  • Annual tuition assistance
  • Better Yourself Wellness program
  • Commuter benefits and commuting subsidy
  • Group volunteer opportunities, fitness challenges, and fun events
  • A referral bonus program we love hiring referrals here at PulsePoint
  • And there's a lot more!

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