Wayfair - Lead Data Scientist - Machine Learning

Who We Are is moving the world so that anyone can live in a home they love a journey enabled by more than 3,000 Wayfair engineers and a data-centric culture.

Wayfairs Advertising business is rapidly expanding, adding hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to Wayfair.

We are building Sponsored Products, Display & Video Ad offerings that cater to a variety of Advertiser goals while showing highly relevant and engaging Ads to millions of customers.

We are evolving our Ads Platform to empower advertisers across all sophistication levels to grow their business on Wayfair at a strong, positive ROI and are leveraging state of the art Machine Learning techniques.

The Advertising Optimization & Automation Science team is central to this effort.

We leverage machine learning and generative AI to streamline campaign workflows, delivering impactful recommendations on budget allocation, target Return on Ad Spend (tROAS), and SKU we are developing intelligent systems for creative optimization and exploring agentic frameworks to further simplify and enhance advertiser interactions.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Machine Learning Scientist to join the Advertising Optimization & Automation Science team.

In this role, you will be responsible for building intelligent, ML-powered systems that drive personalized recommendations and campaign automation within Wayfairs advertising platform.

You will work closely with other scientists, as well as members of our internal Product and Engineering teams, to apply your ML expertise to define and deliver 0-to-1 capabilities that unlock substantial commercial value and directly enhance advertiser youll do :

• Provide technical leadership in the development of an automated and intelligent advertising system by advancing the state-of-the-art in machine learning techniques to support recommendations for Ads

campaigns and other optimizations.

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