Senior Data Scientist - Programmatic ML & Auctions

Impact; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

RSUs and equity growth

401(k) and FSA

Job summary

impact.com is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Programmatic Experience Group. You will design and deploy ML models that optimize yield, pricing, and inventory allocation at scale—sitting at the intersection of data science, platform engineering, and marketplace economics.

This high-ownership IC role runs end-to-end: architecting data pipelines, engineering features, and delivering real-time inference systems that balance advertiser performance with publisher monetization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data science, ML engineering, or quantitative research, with at least 2+ years in programmatic advertising or related domain.
• Deep understanding of programmatic auction mechanics and ML applications across the supply-demand stack.
• Production ML engineering experience: real-time inference, monitoring, retraining pipelines and SLO ownership.
• Experience designing data pipelines, feature stores, and training infrastructure for high-volume, low-latency systems.
• Strong Python and SQL; proficiency with ML libraries and large-scale data tools; experience with real-time feature serving.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy ML models that optimize auction pricing, bid shading, floor price setting, and yield across programmatic inventory.
• Develop real-time pricing algorithms balancing short-term revenue and publisher health.
• Own ML-driven inventory allocation logic across partner segments and campaign objectives.
• Design and maintain data infrastructure feeding programmatic models: event pipelines, feature stores, training datasets.
• Deploy production real-time inference environments with latency and throughput targets.
• Build monitoring for model performance, drift, and retraining triggers; collaborate with MLOps and Platform Eng.
• Lead end-to-end lifecycle: training, evaluation, deployment, A/B testing, iteration.

Skills

Python & SQL

Production ML engineering

Programmatic & marketplace depth

Real-time inference

Data pipelines

Experimentation design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (quantitative)

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

scikit-learn

XGBoost

LightGBM

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Spark

Kafka

REST APIs / gRPC

Job description

impact.com is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Programmatic Experience Group. You will design and deploy ML models that optimize yield, pricing, and inventory allocation at scale—sitting at the intersection of data science, platform engineering, and marketplace economics.

This high-ownership IC role runs end-to-end: architecting data pipelines, engineering features, and delivering real-time inference systems that balance advertiser performance with publisher monetization.