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Koah

Applied Scientist

San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Science & research
Pay
$200K – $300K a year
Posted
13 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $300K a year, is 5% above the median of $285K for science jobs in San Francisco (middle half $180K – $350K, 282 jobs that state pay).

390 science jobs open in San Francisco: 10% remote, 92 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

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: Flutter, React Native, Android, iOS

Example Projects

  • Design efficient algorithms for real-time bidding systems, building upon the current pricing literature
  • Create and productionize regression models to predict end conversions based on demographic, audience, and semantic data
  • Apply privacy-preserving clustering methods to categorize conversational data to improve advertiser outreach
  • Analyze and pore over data to find alpha that can improve the core ad matching system balancing publisher and advertiser outcomes

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

Source

Posted by Koah on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:58 UTC; the original is the reference.

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