--- title: '(Senior) Machine Learning Scientist (Modeling & Evaluation) at Appier' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-machine-learning-scientist-modeling-evaluation-appier-taipei-1dd63enfjrsp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-19' --- # (Senior) Machine Learning Scientist (Modeling & Evaluation) at Appier - **Company:** Appier - **Location:** Taipei, Taiwan - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/appier/jobs/8261020 ## Job description ## About Appier Appier (TSE: 4180) is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to create value through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. Founded in 2012 with the vision of “Making AI Easy by Making Software Intelligent,” Appier helps businesses turn AI into ROI through its Ad Cloud, Personalization Cloud, and Data Cloud—each powered by Agentic AI that enables autonomous, adaptive, and real-time decision-making. Today, Appier operates 17 offices across APAC, the US, and EMEA, and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.appier.com. ## About the Role We are looking for a Machine Learning Scientist (Modeling & Evaluation) to join the Enterprise Solution Science Team and help enterprises turn AI into real ROI. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end development, from problem definition to driving models and solutions into production. ## What You'll Work On - Design, develop, and deploy optimization solutions built on ML models and evaluation, to improve efficiency and quality. - Work with PMs and engineers to turn product goals and customer needs into clear problems and priorities, and integrate validated methods into the product. - Build reliable evaluation methods for LLM output to measure the quality and impact of solutions, and decide if the results apply to real-world conditions. - Form your own hypotheses, then design A/B tests that use real traffic to validate them. - Follow the latest research and industry solutions, evaluate them in our own context, and propose new approaches. Decide what to build in-house and what to adopt. - Monitor solutions after launch, and proactively communicate risks, trade-offs, and progress. - (Optional) Mentor junior scientists and interns, if the need arises. ## What We're Looking For (Minimum Qualifications) - Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields - At least 2 years of experience in machine learning or engineering roles (5+ years preferred) - Hands-on experience with ML models (including classification, regression, ranking, and retrieval) and quality evaluation (including LLM-as-a-judge), a solid foundation in statistics, and the ability to explain how these techniques relate to business impact - Impact-driven mindset: able to judge task priority, collaborate across functions, and proactively drive work forward and surface risks - AI-native development: work daily with coding agents that read the codebase, run tests, and iterate on their own, while you set the scope and review the diffs. Can explain and correct what the agent produced ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience leading projects - Ability to form hypotheses and validate them: design experiments and A/B tests, interpret results, and take ownership of conclusions - Background in embeddings and causal inference - Engineering experience with AI / LLM applications (for example, serving and integration) ## #LI-TC1 ## About Appier ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that empowers businesses to turn AI into ROI through cutting-edge AdTech and MarTech solutions. - **Entity Type**: Public (Tokyo Stock Exchange, ticker 4180) - **Headquarters**: Taipei, Taiwan (with 17 offices globally including San Francisco) - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Chih-Han Yu (CEO), Wan-Ling Lee (COO), Ming-Yu Chen (CSO), Chia-Yung Su (CTO), Che-Hsu Chang (CIO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered advertising technology (AdTech) and marketing technology (MarTech) - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprise and SMB businesses seeking AI-driven marketing automation, customer data platforms, and programmatic advertising - **Mission**: "Making AI Easy" – helping businesses turn Agentic AI into ROI ## Products & Services - **Ad Cloud**: Performance-driven advertising platform that automates creative testing, audience targeting, and campaign optimization to maximize ROAS. - **Personalization Cloud**: Cross-channel customer engagement platform that personalizes every touchpoint using real-time AI adaptation (includes AIQUA). - **Data Cloud (AIRIS)**: AI-powered Customer Data Platform (CDP) that centralizes, segments, and activates data for unified audience intelligence and real-time decision-making. - **Other tools**: Aictivate (mobile gamer re-engagement), CrossX (advertising solution), BotBonnie (conversational marketing platform), AdCreative.ai (generative AI creative generation). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Cap**: Market capitalization not publicly available in the search results; company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Prime section since 2025). - **Key Metrics**: Total funding raised (estimated from disclosed rounds): ~$142M+ (Series A $6M, Series B1 $23M, Series C $33M, Series D $80M). Annual revenue not disclosed. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Group, LINE Corporation, NAVER, EDBI, AMTD Group, TGVest Capital, HOPU-ARM Innovation Fund, Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, JAFCO Asia/Investment, UMC Capital, TransLink Capital, MediaTek Ventures, Fontaine Capital, UOB Venture Management. - **Growth Signals**: Expanded from 4-person start-up to 17 offices globally, serves 1,800+ customers, acquired Woopra (2022), BotBonnie, QGraph, Emin, AdCreative.ai; ranked top ROI-driving ad partner by Singular for two consecutive years; moved to TSE Prime listing in 2025. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep AI R&D**: 70% of R&D staff hold PhDs or Master’s degrees in AI/Big Data, with 400+ academic publications. - **Agentic AI Platform**: Autonomous, adaptive agents for advertising, personalization, and data – built on proprietary machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. - **Full-funnel coverage**: Combines AdTech and MarTech in a unified AI-native stack. - **Global footprint with localised expertise**: Strong presence across APAC, Europe, and US enables cross-border scalability. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI expansion** – further develop autonomous AI agents across advertising, personalization, and data clouds. - **Global growth** – strengthen presence in US and European markets following recent acquisitions (AdCreative.ai, Woopra). - **Generative AI innovation** – incorporate generative AI into creative and campaign workflows. - **Sustainability & governance** – Received “AA” MSCI ESG rating, integrating ESG into operations. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “H-appier” framework – Hungry (ambitious, fearless), Humble (open-minded, adaptive), Happier (direct communication, diversity & inclusion, growth). Strong emphasis on execution excellence and customer centricity. - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: 17 offices globally; specific policy not detailed but positions are likely hybrid/office-based depending on role (many engineering jobs listed in San Francisco, Taipei, etc.). - **Team**: 642 total employees (Built In estimate); engineering roles heavily weighted in AI/ML. - **Perks & environment**: “Start a career, not a job” – career growth tools, collaborative environment, celebration of wins. ## Sources 1. [appier.com](https://www.appier.com/en/) 2. [appier.com/about](https://www.appier.com/en/about) 3. [appier.com/career](https://www.appier.com/en/about/career/) 4. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/appier) 5. 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