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).
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| 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 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#). |
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| 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 |
| Sr Site Reliability Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and scaling a global network platform across physical datacenters and multi-cloud environments. The role involves network automation, troubleshooting complex issues, and improving operational excellence. Experience with Kubernetes networking, load balancers, and infrastructure-as-code is required. Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and experience integrating AI tools into engineering processes are also mentioned. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on Marketplace Quality Engineering within The Trade Desk's digital advertising platform. The role involves building systems to assess, measure, and optimize supply quality, including deduplication, supply path analysis, and quality modeling. It requires strong backend and distributed systems experience, proficiency in C#/.NET, and working with large datasets in real-time. The impact is directly measurable on advertiser outcomes and platform economics. | — | 0 |
| Senior Database Engineer Senior Database Engineer to support and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases for a global technology company in the digital advertising space. Responsibilities include administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, and disaster recovery for high-volume, large-scale systems. | — | 0 |
| 2026 Australia Software Engineering Internship Internship role focused on software engineering with project ownership, mentorship, and exposure to various technologies including machine learning/AI, but not as the core craft. | — | 0 |
| Senior Database Engineer Senior Database Engineer to support and maintain Microsoft SQL Server databases for a large-scale digital advertising platform. Responsibilities include administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, and disaster recovery. Requires extensive experience with MS SQL, performance optimization, and OLTP environments. Experience with distributed systems, AWS, and PostgreSQL is a plus. Experience with compliance programs like SOX or PCI is also a plus. | — | 0 |