Data Scientist - Product Engineering

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 $5.7M 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