Applied Scientist
koahMillbrae (CA)
About the role
Overview
Who we are:
- Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products. Our mission is to help publishers monetize and help advertisers reach the right audience without compromising speed UX or privacy.
- We're a small tight-knit team in San Francisco with backgrounds at X, Apple and early-stage startups. We've raised $5.7M from top investors and are growing fast with real traction on both the publisher and advertiser sides.
- Working at Koah means joining at the ground floor: you'll ship code that shapes the company and the ecosystem we're building. We move quickly, operate with high trust, and care deeply about craft.
- Example Projects
- Design efficient algorithms for real-time bidding systems, building upon the current pricing literature
- Create and productionize regression models to predict end conversions based on demographic, audience, and semantic data
- Apply privacy-preserving clustering methods to categorize conversational data to improve advertiser outreach
- Analyze and pore over data to find alpha that can improve the core ad matching system, balancing publisher and advertiser outcomes
- You might be a fit ifYou have an advanced degree in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or a related field
- You enjoy identifying and owning challenging problems, forming testable hypotheses, and conducting impactful research to drive significant business impact
- You have a relentless focus on continuous learning and making an impact with an ability to question the status quo
- You have strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills
- You enjoy communicating conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences alike
Key Skills:
- Laboratory Experience
- ImmunoassaysMachine Learning
- BiochemistryAssaysResearch Experience
- SpectroscopyResearch & DevelopmentcGMPCell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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