Staff Applied Scientist, AdTech at Launch Potato · Remote (Costa Rica)
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Python
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SQL
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5+ years of hands-on applied data science with measurable business impact
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Your models drove paid media decisions: spend, bidding or ad serving. Attribution and reporting alone don't qualify.
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You built what's on your resume and can explain it down to the loss function and architecture choice, neural network fundamentals included
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You see how today's bids shape tomorrow's training data, and you've handled late labels, sparse features or drift
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You own models end to end: you find your own data, build through deployment and monitoring, and bring a point of view
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Why they ask: Rigour.
How to answer: Metric choice, baselines, offline vs online tests.
Why they ask: Communication.
How to answer: Problem, approach, impact, limits.
Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: CI/CD is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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