Applied Scientist III

About Us   InMobi is the leading provider of content, monetization, and marketing technologies that fuel growth for industries around the world. Our end-to-end advertising software platform, connected content, and commerce experiences activate audiences, drive real connections, and diversify revenue for businesses everywhere. InMobi Advertising is an end-to-end advertising platform that helps advertisers drive real connections with consumers. We drive customer growth by helping businesses understand, engage, and acquire consumers effectively through data-driven media solutions. Learn more at advertising.inmobi.com. Glance is a consumer technology company that operates disruptive digital platforms, including Glance, Roposo, and Nostra. Glance’s smart lockscreen and TV experience inspires consumers to make the most of every moment by surfing relevant content without the need for searching and downloading apps. Glance is currently available on over 450 million smartphones and televisions worldwide. Learn more at glance.com. Born in India, InMobi maintains a large presence in Bangalore and San Mateo, CA, and has operations in New York, Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Melbourne, Seoul, Tokyo, London, and Dubai. To learn more, visit inmobi.com. Overview of the role: We are looking for an Applied Scientist III to join our algorithmic and research science team. You’ll work on mathematically rigorous, research-driven problems at production scale. This role sits at the intersection of theory and application, designing algorithms that combine elegant modeling with measurable business impact. Specifically, our scientists tackle challenges across traffic shaping, fraud detection, ad quality, pricing strategies, and auction theory, along with their practical applications. We leverage the latest deep learning models alongside classical machine learning techniques to build innovative solutions. As the heart of the InMobi Exchange, our team optimizes the company’s core business functions and creates the strategic moat that sets us apart in the market. You will not just “use models”—you will formulate them, evaluate their assumptions, tailor them to our problem domain, and bring them to life in production. Many of our challenges have no off-the-shelf solutions; we require scientific creativity to bridge research and reality. If you thrive on solving complex, high-impact problems and want to see your ideas shape the future of a global exchange, this is the place where your work will truly make a difference. The impact you'll make: In this role, you’ll operate at the intersection of cutting-edge research and massive-scale production, shaping algorithms that power a global advertising marketplace, making tens of trillions of real-time decisions every day. You’ll work in an environment where models are continuously tested, evaluated, and refined — with rapid learning loops measured in hours, not weeks. Collaborating with a team that values algorithmic depth and scientific rigor, you’ll have the opportunity to prototype, publish, and deploy work that drives measurable business impact. Formulate, analyze, and implement algorithms that power real-time auctions, dynamic pricing, bid shaping, pacing, and traffic allocation across a massive-scale ad marketplace. Design and experiment with methods in online learning, reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandits, forecasting, game theory, and Bayesian modeling—in non-stationary, adversarial environments. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy your models in production and run real-world experiments with rapid feedback loops (measured in hours, not weeks). Contribute to the scientific community by publishing high-quality research, conducting internal seminars, and staying abreast of advances in machine learning, algorithms, and applied statistics. Evaluate the long-term dynamics of deployed algorithms, incorporating feedback, expl...