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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sr Software Engineer Software Engineer role focused on improving customer experience, troubleshooting complex systems, and building tooling for issue remediation within a large-scale digital advertising platform. Emphasizes full-stack problem-solving and cross-team collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Lead Senior Software Engineer - Platform Security Lead Senior Software Engineer for Platform Security at The Trade Desk, focusing on building and operating security-critical systems at massive scale. This role involves technical leadership, architectural decision-making, and mentoring engineers, with a future focus on AI-driven security posture analysis. | — | 0 |
| Accountant Staff Accountant role focused on treasury accounting activities, including daily cash reporting, journal entries, account reconciliations, and quarterly disclosures. The role also involves assisting with audits, researching accounting conventions, and improving process automation. Requires strong Excel skills and knowledge of GAAP and SOX. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Back-end/Data Pipeline - VenturaOS Senior Software Engineer focused on backend/data pipeline development for a TV operating system. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data pipelines using technologies like Apache Spark, developing efficient data processing workflows, creating robust APIs, integrating with ML models, implementing monitoring, and optimizing data storage. The role emphasizes data warehousing, data governance, and experience with ML pipelines in personalization or ad-tech within streaming/TVOS platforms. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II for the Service Excellence (SE) team, focusing on the Monitoring & Observability (MOT) taskforce. The role involves building and operating the observability platform, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards, used across TTD engineering. | — | 0 |
| Technical Account Manager Technical Account Manager role focused on managing integrations with inventory/publisher partners in the digital advertising space. The role involves providing technical guidance, acting as a liaison between partners and engineering, and advising on technical solutions. It requires understanding and communicating advanced engineering concepts to non-technical stakeholders and managing complex integration projects. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Security Engineering Manager, Security Engineering to lead a combined team of Application Security and Platform Security engineers, with end-to-end ownership of how TTD secures both the code they ship and the infrastructure they run it on. Contribute to the strategy, roadmap, and execution of TTD’s Security Engineering function — including the KPIs, maturity model, and executive-level reporting that demonstrate measurable improvement in our overall security posture over time. | — | 0 |
| Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS This role is for a Senior Director of Engineering & Applied Science to lead the engineering organization for VenturaOS, a next-generation Connected TV platform. The role involves owning the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of the platform, which includes consumer experiences, platform software, device/OS engineering, backend services, monetization, partner integrations, and core infrastructure. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and a strong technical background in operating systems, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, with a preference for experience in Connected TV or consumer operating systems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer role at The Trade Desk, focusing on building and delivering data-focused products and back-end infrastructure for a global digital advertising platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership, working with a variety of technologies, and contributing to large-scale distributed systems and data challenges. Staff Engineers also provide technical leadership and mentorship. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on end-to-end ownership of back-end infrastructure and data-focused products, including model pipelines for bidding optimizations, within a large-scale global digital advertising platform. Emphasizes quality, distributed systems, and algorithmic challenges. | — | 0 |
| Senior Executive Recruiting Coordinator The Trade Desk is seeking a Senior Executive Candidate Experience Partner to support their Executive Recruiting and Candidate Experience teams. This role is responsible for owning the end-to-end coordination and facilitation of executive-level hiring processes, ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The role involves managing complex scheduling, partnering with senior leaders, and driving process enhancements. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter - Sales (Contract) This role is for a Senior Recruiter focused on Sales, Business Development, and Client Services hiring for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The contract position requires full-cycle recruitment, internal mobility support, and stakeholder partnership. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of recruiting experience, preferably in AdTech or Digital Media, with a proven ability to manage high-volume, fast-paced environments and support internal hiring processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter II - Engineering Senior Recruiter II focused on Engineering hiring across EMEA for The Trade Desk, a global technology company in digital advertising. The role involves partnering with hiring managers, understanding technical requirements, executing hiring strategies, and managing the full-cycle recruitment process. Emphasis on finding technical talent, improving recruitment processes, and ensuring a best-in-class candidate experience. The role also involves operational projects and data-driven approaches. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer – Janus Platform Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving The Trade Desk's internal feature release platform (Janus). This platform integrates with hundreds of internal services to propagate configuration changes in near real-time, enabling cross-functional teams to release features. The role involves owning the full stack, building self-service tooling, ensuring platform reliability at scale, and driving architectural decisions. | — | 0 |
| Payroll Specialist The Trade Desk is seeking a Payroll Specialist to support day-to-day tasks for APAC payrolls, collaborate with the Sr. Payroll Specialist, and handle employee payroll queries. Responsibilities include end-to-end payroll processing across 10 APAC countries, data validation, ensuring accurate processing of salary, benefits, and taxes, maintaining data integrity in systems like Workday HCM and CloudPay, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with regulations and SOX controls. The role requires 3-5 years of payroll experience, basic understanding of payroll principles and local regulations, and proficiency in Excel. | — | 0 |
| Sr Accountant Senior Accountant role at The Trade Desk, focusing on financial accounting, compliance, and tax requirements for China legal entities. Responsibilities include month-end close, statutory reporting, managing third-party providers, and acting as a finance business partner. Requires 7+ years of accounting experience, knowledge of China GAAP and tax regulations, and ERP system proficiency. | — | 0 |
| Senior Workplace Associate This role is for a Senior Workplace Associate responsible for supporting day-to-day office operations, providing a positive and productive workplace experience, and acting as a cultural ambassador. Responsibilities include managing office services, assisting with employee onboarding, organizing events, and ensuring building safety and security. | — | 0 |
| Solutions Architect, Anaplan This role focuses on designing, developing, and deploying Anaplan models and applications for accounting and planning functions like revenue accounting, incentive compensation, sales forecasting, and FP&A. It involves system integration, stakeholder collaboration, UI design, project management, and technical support within the Anaplan ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer-Data Engineer Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineer role focused on building and owning complex data pipelines, models, and integrations for analytics, reporting, and internal products within the Technology Operations group. Requires expertise in SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT, and cloud data warehousing technologies like Snowflake and Databricks. Involves technical leadership, mentoring, and ensuring data quality and reliability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - OpenPath Senior Software Engineer on the OpenPath team at The Trade Desk, focusing on architecting and building systems for direct publisher integrations and a publisher platform to improve transparency and efficiency in programmatic advertising. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Services Senior Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining scalable, service-oriented infrastructure solutions for a globally distributed system. The role involves creating self-service tooling and automation to improve product team efficiency and operational health, with elements of SRE mindset including configuration management, capacity modeling, and monitoring. Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, cloud providers, and infrastructure as code is required. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Identity Team Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and data products for identity graphs in the digital advertising domain. The role involves processing petabyte-scale data and constructing identity graphs in a privacy-conscious way, sitting at the intersection of data engineering, distributed systems, and data science/ML. | — | 0 |