Koah

Data Scientist at Koah (San Francisco, CA)

Koah· San Francisco, CA· $180k–$250k·

Role details

Salary
$180k–$250k
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time
Skills
Statistical modelingCausal reasoningExperimentationData analysis
Benefits

Equity

Summary

Join Koah's product engineering team to drive decisions using data and causal reasoning. You will design and analyze experiments, build statistical models, and help establish a data-driven culture within the company.

Job description

Who We Are

Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products. Our mission is to help publishers monetize and help advertisers reach the right audience — without compromising speed, UX, or privacy.

We’re a small, tight-knit team in San Francisco with backgrounds at X, Apple, Meta, and early-stage startups. We’ve raised from top investors and are growing fast with real traction on both the publisher and advertiser sides.

Working at Koah means joining at the ground floor: you’ll ship code that shapes the company and the ecosystem we’re building. We move quickly, operate with high trust, and care deeply about craft.

Our Stack

  • Infra: Terraform, AWS, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Tailscale, Cloudflare
  • Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, Python
  • Core Application: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript
  • SDKs: iOS, Android, Web, Flutter, React Native

In this role, you will

  • Sit within product engineering and help drive product decisions using data and causal reasoning
  • Design, implement, execute experiments and analyze results
  • Help level-up all of engineering, encouraging data driven decisions and a deep understanding of the important metrics that drive our business forward
  • Use rigorous statistical thinking and hands-on modeling to turn our rich marketplace data into tools that directly shape product decisions and key insights

You might be a fit if

  • You have an advanced degree in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field
  • You enjoy identifying and owning challenging problems, forming testable hypotheses, and conducting impactful research to drive significant business impact
  • You have a relentless focus on continuous learning and making an impact with an ability to question the status quo
  • You have strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills
  • You enjoy communicating conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences alike

Why work at Koah

  • High-Growth Environment: The company has grown headcount by 633% in the last year and is actively hiring across engineering, product, design, data science, and go-to-market roles.
  • Mission-Driven: Employees work on solving a fundamental problem for the AI ecosystem — how to make AI apps profitable without compromising user experience.
  • Culture Values: The company emphasizes "design for quality," "velocity over perfection," "experiment boldly," and "respect first." They value ownership, rapid iteration, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Work Policy: Hybrid/on-site presence in San Francisco and New York. The Founding Head of Ad Sales role is listed as on-site in San Francisco or New York.
  • Team Composition: Small, high-leverage team (18 people) with a flat structure. Technical roles (engineering, data science, product) make up a significant portion of the team.
  • Tech Stack: Modern stack including React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Terraform, Cloudflare, and Grafana — appealing to engineers who want to work with cutting-edge infrastructure.

Application questions