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).
Currently tracking 13 active AI roles, up 14% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $125k–$252k (avg $186k).
| 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 |