Remote Staff Applied Scientist, AdTech & Media ML

Launch Potato; St. Louis (MO); Remote; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Launch Potato is hiring a data science role to build models that determine which auto insurance carrier a shopper sees on our click wall, and to own the buying models behind our media spend for ROAS.

You will frame problems with the business, source data, develop end-to-end models, and work with an ML engineer on production systems. Initially focused on auto insurance, with expansion to other verticals over time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on applied data science with measurable business impact.
• Your models drove paid media decisions: spend, bidding or ad serving. Attribution and reporting alone don't qualify.
• You built what's on your resume and can explain it down to the loss function and architecture choice, neural network fundamentals included
• You see how today's bids shape tomorrow's training data, and you've handled late labels, sparse features or drift
• You own models end to end: you find your own data, build through deployment and monitoring, and bring a point of view
• Expert Python and SQL

Responsibilities

• Hands-on role framing problems with the business, sourcing data, building and validating models, and deploying them.
• Work with an ML engineer on production systems.
• Initially focus on auto insurance, with expansion to other verticals over time.
• Operate in a remote-first environment with East Coast hours.
• Lead production models that perform through drift and changing objectives.

Skills

Applied data science

Model deployment

Python

SQL

Tools

SageMaker

ECS

S3

Athena

Job description

Launch Potato is hiring a data science role to build models that determine which auto insurance carrier a shopper sees on our click wall, and to own the buying models behind our media spend for ROAS.

You will frame problems with the business, source data, develop end-to-end models, and work with an ML engineer on production systems. Initially focused on auto insurance, with expansion to other verticals over time.