The Trade Desk
Media · Programmatic advertising
Media · Programmatic advertising
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 mention: Real-Time Systems, Ads & Ranking ML, Machine Learning, Statistics, Product Management.
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 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 |
| 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 |
| IT Support Analyst II IT Support Analyst II role focused on providing hands-on support for endpoint devices, managing helpdesk tickets, deploying hardware/software, and troubleshooting various IT issues within a global technology company. | — | 0 |
| Lead Staff Software Engineer Lead Staff Software Engineer role at The Trade Desk, focusing on end-to-end ownership of designing, building, and delivering data-focused products. The role involves technical leadership, project execution, and people management within an agile, global environment. Responsibilities include code reviews, contributing to team objectives, roadmap development, execution planning, team efficiency analysis, and managing a small team. Requires strong engineering fundamentals, experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), OO programming (C#, Java, C++), and distributed systems. The role emphasizes creative thinking, learning, innovation, and collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Lead Systems Reliability Engineer (Linux & Distributed Systems) Lead Systems Reliability Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a data-driven platform at global scale, involving real-time processing with low latency. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation, owning operations for Linux-based systems (Aerospike, Kafka, Mongo), reviewing new use cases, and benchmarking hardware. The role involves deep performance engineering and collaboration with hardware/software vendors. | — | 0 |