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You’ll develop advanced modeling solutions that drive bid optimization, price prediction, and auction strategy while partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Business teams to bring research into production. Your work will directly improve advertiser performance, publisher revenue, and marketplace efficiency at massive scale.\nTo thrive in this role, you'll need:\n4+ years of experience building machine learning solutions end-to-end, from research and experimentation through production.\nMSc or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.\nExperience developing machine learning models for real-time bidding (RTB), recommendation systems, ranking, pricing, or other large-scale optimization problems.\nStrong programming skills in Python and experience working with production-grade machine learning systems.\nStrong foundation in machine learning, statistical modeling, experimentation, and data analysis.\nBonus points if you have:\nExperience with deep learning models in large-scale recommendation or advertising systems.\nExperience using AI development tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to accelerate experimentation and development.\nHow you'll make an impact:\nDesign, train, and deploy machine learning models for bid optimization, price prediction, win-rate prediction, CTR/CVR estimation, calibration, and auction optimization.\nOwn the full machine learning lifecycle, from research and experimentation through production deployment, A/B testing, monitoring, and continuous optimization.\nAnalyze large-scale marketplace data to identify modeling opportunities and translate insights into measurable business impact.\nPartner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to define and deliver scalable machine learning solutions.\nImprove the performance, scalability, and reliability of production models serving low-latency, high-throughput traffic.\nMentor junior data scientists and contribute to technical reviews, experimentation best practices, and knowledge sharing across the team.\nWhy Taboola?\nIf you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:\nAdam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says:\n\"You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.\"\nWell-being: Enjoy comprehensive benefits and well-being programs tailored to the region, a fully stocked kitchen, and location-specific perks.\nFlexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office, with an option to come in more often if desired.\nWork with some of the biggest names: Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Condé Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, and Expedia.\nReady to realize your potential?\nTaboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. 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