Currently tracking 13 active AI roles, up 14% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $125k–$252k (avg $186k).
The Trade Desk is actively hiring for 16 AI-related roles, with a significant focus on the agents stage, which accounts for 69% of their current openings. Engineering is the primary function for these positions, followed by product. The majority of these roles are located in the United States. Frequent technical tags include agent_orchestration, llm_observability, and guardrails, suggesting a focus on managing and deploying AI agents. Over the last 30 days, The Trade Desk has added 10 new AI roles, representing a 233% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
The Trade Desk currently has 15 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Staff Applied Scientist (3), Senior Product Manager, Audience (2), Applied Scientist II, Data Scientist II, Director of Design Technology. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
The Trade Desk's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (60%), data (20%), post-training (13%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
The Trade Desk is hiring AI talent in: United States (13 roles), United Kingdom (1 role), Australia (1 role).
Job postings at The Trade Desk most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, llm observability, forecasting, recommender systems.
In the past 30 days, The Trade Desk has posted 3 new AI-related roles. That is a -67% change versus the prior 30 days (9 → 3).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Product Manager, Agentic AI Staff Product Manager for Agentic AI at The Trade Desk, focusing on strategy, roadmap, and execution for in-platform chatbots, agent ecosystems, and third-party agentic workflows. The role involves defining and tracking KPIs, partnering with cross-functional teams, and managing the realities of LLM behavior like evals, latency, and hallucinations. | Agent | 8 |
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on researching and developing end-to-end ML/deep learning forecasting models for advertising campaign lifecycle, involving signal collection, feature construction, model evaluation, and deployment in collaboration with engineering teams. | Post-train |
| 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on researching and developing end-to-end ML/deep learning forecasting models for advertising campaign lifecycle, involving signal collection, feature construction, model evaluation, and deployment in collaboration with engineering teams. | Post-train | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Audience Senior Product Manager for Audience team, focusing on defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap for next-generation audience targeting, segmentation, and insights tools. The role involves designing and owning Agentic-AI product workflows where AI agents autonomously identify, segment, and activate high-value audiences. Requires end-to-end execution, deep partnership with Engineering and Data Science, and operating as a strategic leader across APAC and globally. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr AI Enterprise Engineer This role focuses on building and deploying internal AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, and agentic systems within an enterprise context. The engineer will be an end-to-end owner, collaborating with stakeholders to identify opportunities and deliver tools that improve productivity and streamline workflows. Key responsibilities include designing and deploying agentic systems, contributing to RAG applications, building and deploying agents using platforms like Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic Claude, and iterating on conversational agents. The role also involves driving quality through testing and evaluation, and mentoring teammates. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr AI Enablement Engineer Senior AI Enablement Engineer role focused on building and deploying internal AI solutions, including agentic systems and RAG applications, using LLMs and enterprise platforms like Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic Claude. The role involves end-to-end ownership, stakeholder collaboration, and guiding teams through their AI journey to improve productivity and streamline workflows within enterprise guardrails. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr AI Solutions Architect This role focuses on designing and deploying intelligent agentic systems and RAG applications that integrate LLMs with enterprise data, tools, and workflows. The Sr AI Solutions Architect will build and deploy agents using platforms like Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic Claude, contribute to RAG applications, and drive AI enablement across the company, aiming to improve productivity and streamline workflows. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Product Manager, Generalist Product Manager role focused on improving the developer experience by defining and implementing AI strategy and tools for engineers. This includes understanding developer needs, industry trends, and building AI solutions to enhance efficiency and innovation within the software development lifecycle. | Agent | 7 |
| Data Scientist I The Trade Desk is seeking a Data Scientist to develop algorithms for Audience Targeting using deep learning at scale. This role involves end-to-end ownership from ideation to productionalization and monitoring, focusing on training and inference in always-on production systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist Staff Applied Scientist role focused on building and scaling AI/ML systems for digital advertising, including control systems, recommendation engines, and time series models. Requires strong ML, statistics, and experimental design skills, with experience in end-to-end project ownership from research to production. | Ship | 7 |
| Applied Scientist II Applied Scientist II role focused on end-to-end ownership of identity products within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves designing, researching, building, and delivering data-focused products using massive datasets and cutting-edge data processing frameworks and scalable algorithms. It also includes acting as a business partner ambassador for identity products. | Data | 7 |
| Applied Scientist II Applied Scientist II role at The Trade Desk, focusing on developing and improving machine learning models for digital advertising. The role involves transforming large datasets into actionable intelligence, contributing to client-facing products, and working closely with product, trading, and engineering teams. Emphasis on shipping product and deriving insights from massive datasets. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer II - Price Optimization & Bidding Software Engineer II on the Performance Automation team, focused on developing optimization tools for advertising campaigns. This role involves enhancing machine learning model development, creating tools for data scientists' model iteration, experimenting with training architectures, and integrating models into low-latency bidding infrastructure. It also includes developing debugging and analytical tools for real-time system monitoring and adjustment. | DataServe | 7 |
| Senior Applied Scientist , Channel Growth Senior Data Scientist role focused on designing, building, and scaling data-driven solutions for forecasting, pacing, and recommendation systems in emerging channels. The role involves developing advanced ML/DL models, optimizing algorithms, and collaborating with engineering and product teams for end-to-end ownership from research to production. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Applied Scientist , Inventory & Marketplace Quality Staff Applied Scientist role focused on building and productionizing statistical and machine learning models for fraud detection, invalid traffic, and inventory quality in the digital advertising marketplace. The role involves technical ownership of the data science roadmap, designing and deploying models, defining metrics, and developing analytical frameworks. It also requires cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams, and leadership/mentorship of other data scientists. The position emphasizes end-to-end project ownership in adversarial, large-scale environments. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Sr AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer role focused on designing, developing, and deploying internal AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, and agentic systems to improve productivity and streamline workflows within The Trade Desk. The role involves end-to-end ownership, collaboration with stakeholders, and AI enablement across the company. | Agent | 7 |
| Analyst II, Commercial Intelligence & Analytics This role supports commercial analytics and insight generation for sales and client services teams, focusing on translating business needs into scalable analytical deliverables and insight pipelines. It involves partnering with engineering teams to embed analytics into workflows and tools, using AI/LLM-assisted tools to enhance analytical speed and quality, and communicating findings to drive business impact. | — | 5 |
| Principal Technical Account Manager This role focuses on managing the post-sale technical relationship for strategic agency accounts, translating company initiatives through streamlined technical operations. It involves consulting on measurement strategy, client technology stacks, and leading the development of custom solutions including AI and agentic workflow solutions. The role requires strong technical consulting, project management, and relationship management skills, with a working knowledge of AI and agentic workflows. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Content Designer (API) Senior Technical Content Designer (API) at The Trade Desk, focusing on creating technical content for developers and integration partners. The role involves architecting and writing documentation for APIs, SDKs, and integration guides, with an emphasis on structure and precision for both human readers and AI-assisted workflows. Responsibilities include designing content architecture, implementing conditional content strategies, updating documentation in Git repositories, contributing to content governance, conducting UX evaluations, and collaborating on authoring toolchain improvements. The role requires strong technical aptitude, information architecture mindset, and excellent writing and communication skills, with experience in docs-as-code environments and structured authoring principles. | — | 5 |
| Platform Support Coordinator This role provides application support for a digital advertising platform, ensuring issues are addressed within SLAs. Responsibilities include maintaining the ticketing system, troubleshooting technical issues, assisting users, and contributing to the knowledge base. The role involves using AI tools to improve efficiency and requires strong problem-solving and communication skills. | — | 5 |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Commercial Intelligence and Analytics This role focuses on building and maintaining production systems that leverage AI and LLM capabilities to provide commercial intelligence and analytics for internal teams, particularly Sales and Client Services. The engineer will design, develop, and deploy scalable data systems, insight pipelines, and automated workflows, integrating AI/LLM features to improve decision-making, prioritization, and operational efficiency. The role emphasizes the engineering lifecycle from requirements to production, ensuring reliability, explainability, and impact of the delivered intelligence systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Director of Design Technology This role leads the technical design practice within a global UX Design organization, focusing on AI capabilities, innovation, and tooling. The Director will shape the design system, lead prototyping infrastructure, and develop AI tooling strategy to enable designers to move faster and ship with greater confidence. Responsibilities include evaluating and implementing AI tools across the design lifecycle, building an AI tooling roadmap, and developing frameworks for responsible AI use in design. The role also involves bridging design and engineering, leading a team, and ensuring design excellence at scale. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr. Staff Product Manager, Revenue Products This role is for a Sr. Staff Product Manager focused on Revenue Products within The Trade Desk. The primary responsibility is to define product strategy, roadmaps, and drive execution for mission-critical revenue products that power the global go-to-market organization. The role involves partnering with GTM, Engineering, and Data teams to translate business problems into AI-native product solutions and intelligent tooling, aiming to improve productivity, decision-making, and operational scale. It emphasizes a modern, composable architecture approach and data-driven decision-making, with a focus on building scalable platforms and workflows. | — | 5 |
| Sr. Technical Analyst - FP&A This role is within FP&A and bridges Finance and technical teams. It focuses on modernizing and automating finance workflows, improving forecast accuracy using statistical and ML approaches, and building tooling for better decision-making. The role involves automating manual processes, developing and operationalizing models for forecasting, creating internal FP&A tools, partnering cross-functionally, designing data pipelines, and using AI tooling responsibly for development acceleration. | — | 5 |
| Senior Analyst, Commercial Intelligence & Analytics This role focuses on leading commercial analytics and developing insight products to support internal teams, particularly Sales and Client Services. It involves translating business needs into analytical logic, partnering with engineering to embed analytics into workflows and tools, and using AI/LLM-assisted tools to improve analytical speed and quality. The goal is to create proactive signals that improve prioritization, decision-making, and client engagement within the advertising technology platform. | — | 5 |
| Senior Trading Specialist This role is for a Senior Trading Specialist at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role focuses on leveraging data and AI to help clients optimize their advertising campaigns on the platform. The specialist will lead data-driven conversations, develop strategies, consult with clients, and troubleshoot technical issues. They will also collaborate with internal teams, build client relationships, and contribute to product roadmap development by providing client insights. The role requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and data storytelling skills, with experience in ad tech or digital marketing. Bilingual fluency in Japanese and English is essential. | — | 5 |
| General Manager, Technical Account Management (Inventory) This role leads a technical account management organization focused on inventory partners in the digital advertising space. The GM will own the strategy, operating model, and outcomes for onboarding, enabling, and scaling technical partnerships. While the role champions AI as a force multiplier and drives its adoption, the core function is product and strategy leadership within the advertising technology domain, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist II This Data Scientist II role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable graph-based algorithms and statistical models for large-scale datasets. The role involves developing custom data science solutions, analyzing data, validating third-party data, and automating workflows. The primary focus is on data engineering and building data-driven products within the advertising technology domain. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Decisioning Workflows Senior Software Engineer role focused on building decisioning workflows and recommendation systems within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves developing scalable systems, collaborating with data scientists, and working with technologies like C#, Python, Databricks, and agentic programming. | Agent | 5 |
| Lead Associate Trading Director - Hamburg Lead Associate Trading Director for a global technology company in digital advertising, focusing on strategic client management, team leadership, data analysis, and leveraging AI-driven tools to optimize campaigns and client recommendations. This role involves acting as a player-coach, mentoring a team, managing a client portfolio, and collaborating with internal product and cross-functional teams to improve the platform. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Manager, Audience Product Manager for Audience team, responsible for defining vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of audience and insights products. This work increasingly relies on Agentic-AI workflows to identify and reach high-value consumers. Requires collaboration with Engineering, Data Science, and Business teams, gathering customer requirements, and bringing products to life. | Agent | 5 |
| Staff Product Manager Product Manager for Identity products, focusing on identity quality, frequency management, and privacy-first innovation in digital advertising. Responsibilities include defining product strategy, owning roadmaps, partnering with Data Science, driving cross-functional execution, and shipping iteratively. Requires experience in ad tech, data analysis, and communication. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer – Agentic AI Staff Software Engineer role focused on Agentic AI within a large-scale digital advertising platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership of designing, building, and delivering products, with opportunities to work on distributed systems, data challenges, and machine learning. Emphasis on technical leadership, mentoring, and contributing to the team's growth. | Agent | 5 |
| Full Stack Software Engineer II Full Stack Software Engineer II role focused on developing, enhancing, and optimizing internal tools and services for business teams. The team is actively exploring AI-powered tools to improve employee efficiency and productivity. The role involves both frontend and backend development, system maintenance, data analysis for improvements, and stakeholder collaboration. While AI is being explored, the core function is building internal business tools. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace Quality Engineering The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Marketplace Quality Engineering team. This role focuses on building systems to assess, measure, and optimize supply quality in programmatic advertising. The team owns systems for deduplication, supply path analysis, quality modeling, and real-time decisioning. The engineer will work with C#, Python, and SQL, and their contributions will have a direct, measurable impact on advertiser outcomes and platform economics. | AgentEval Gate | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and delivering data products at petabyte scale. Responsibilities include handling large-scale distributed systems, machine learning, data processing pipelines, model training pipelines, and model serving. Requires end-to-end ownership and a product-focused mindset. | DataServe | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves end-to-end ownership of scalable technology solutions, working with a multi-cloud environment and microservices architecture. The team develops client-facing products using .Net/.Net Core, Javascript (React), gRPC, REST API’s, Docker, and Kubernetes, and big data processing backends using Apache Spark and Flink. The role emphasizes quality, automated testing, continuous monitoring, and exploring new AI-powered tools. Experience with cloud platforms, SQL, and data analytics tools is preferred. The company values learning, innovation, and solving complex problems. | — | 5 |
| Trading Specialist This role is a strategic and consultative trading specialist in programmatic advertising. The specialist will advise clients on campaign planning, measurement, and optimization, identify growth opportunities, and develop strategies. They will work closely with Account Management and Business Development, translate complex data into actionable insights, and train clients on the platform. The role involves using AI-enabled tools to improve productivity and experimenting with new technologies and AI applications to drive innovation and tangible improvements. | — | 2 |
| Senior Business Development Manager (Gaming&Apps) Senior Business Development Manager role focused on building strategic partnerships with China outbound advertisers and agencies in the gaming and apps vertical for The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include client relationship management, sales, forecasting, and understanding market differentiators. | — | 0 |
| Workplace Associate This role is for a Workplace Associate at The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The associate will support daily office operations, manage access, respond to maintenance issues, coordinate office communications, assist with onboarding, and organize events. The role requires strong organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills, with at least 1 year of experience in a fast-paced office environment. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director (Pharma) This role is for a Business Development Director focused on the Healthcare/Pharmaceutical sector within The Trade Desk, a digital advertising platform. The responsibilities include managing key client relationships, collaborating with internal teams, responding to RFPs, identifying up-selling opportunities, and participating in product roadmap discussions based on client needs. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in online advertising sales/marketing, a deep understanding of the pharma category, and strong relationship-building and negotiation skills. | — | 0 |
| Trading Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Trading Specialist in Tokyo to manage campaigns, optimize strategies using data analysis, and provide strategic insights to clients. This role involves mastering the platform, collaborating with internal teams, and shaping product enhancements. | — | 0 |
| Trading Analyst This role focuses on optimizing digital advertising campaigns using data analysis and platform expertise. The Trading Analyst will translate data signals into actionable strategies to drive client growth and provide data-driven insights to clients and internal teams. The role also involves collaborating with Product Management to define features and drive platform enhancements. | — | 0 |
| Sr Trading Specialist The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world's leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role is for a Sr Trading Specialist in Seoul, focusing on reaching the right audiences across the open internet. The company emphasizes solving meaningful challenges at a global scale with massive datasets. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This Business Development Director role in Taiwan will lead commercial efforts, cultivate strategic partnerships with top clients, and drive long-term growth through a consultative approach. The role involves managing relationships with advertisers and agencies, forecasting, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. It requires a proven track record in business development and sales within the Taiwan advertising ecosystem, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to translate data into commercial strategies. The role also involves engaging in technical product discussions and representing the company at industry events. | — | 0 |
| Director, Digital Marketing Director of Digital Marketing for North America at The Trade Desk, focusing on media strategy, digital marketing execution, and team leadership to drive brand awareness, engagement, and revenue. This role involves managing paid digital channels, audience segmentation, budgets, and vendor relationships, with a global scope for shaping best practices. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on architecting, designing, developing, and optimizing deployment automation tools and frameworks for microservices on Kubernetes. Responsibilities include developing internal tools, leading collaboration on deployment strategies, implementing monitoring systems, driving process improvements, producing documentation, partnering with SRE/Infrastructure/Security teams, evaluating emerging technologies, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Director - Strategic Accounts This role is for a Business Development Director focused on strategic accounts in the digital advertising technology space. The primary responsibilities involve leading business development strategies, driving growth in client relationships, developing and scaling brand partnerships, crafting Joint Business Plans, and communicating the company's value proposition. The role requires expertise in the online advertising landscape, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to manage long sales cycles. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and owning the Open TTD platform, which connects advertisers, data providers, and inventory sellers to The Trade Desk's DSP ecosystem. Responsibilities include designing and building scalable web experiences, contributing to backend services and APIs, collaborating with product and design teams, and driving technical quality and architecture evolution. Requires strong frontend and full-stack development skills, experience with modern React, RESTful/GraphQL APIs, and backend services (e.g., C#). | — | 0 |
| Director, Client Services The Trade Desk is seeking a Director, Client Services in New Delhi to lead client relationships and provide strategic technical advisory for their digital advertising platform. This role involves managing senior clients, partnering with leadership on business strategy, providing thought leadership, and growing business through cross-selling and upselling. The Director will also manage, motivate, and develop a cross-functional team of Account Managers and Traders, and participate in product roadmap discussions. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, extensive experience in the digital and programmatic industry, and excellent leadership and communication skills. | — | 0 |