Director, Applied Science - Ad Optimization & ML Systems

About the job

WHAT YOU'LL DO The Machine Learning team at Viant builds the real-time decisioning systems that power programmatic advertising — models that predict, in milliseconds, whether an ad opportunity is worth bidding on, and systems that decide how much to bid, live, across billions of auctions. We're looking for an experienced Director of Applied Science to own this technical domain end to end: the models, the production systems they run on, and the team that builds them. This is a hands-on, player-coach role — you'll review designs, unblock scientists on hard formulation problems, and still be able to work through the math and the system tradeoffs yourself when it matters. THE DAY-TO-DAY - Own…