Senior Principal Applied Scientist - ZMS (all genders)

Zalando · Berlin

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Company
Zalando
Location
Berlin
Employment type
Full-time
Posted
June 15, 2026

About this job

THE ROLE & THE TEAM As a Senior Principal Applied Scientist, you will drive the scientific vision and execution for the Bidding and Allocation engines within Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS). Every time a customer interacts with Zalando, our ad tech system must make high-stakes decisions in real-time. The system evaluates thousands of candidate ads, predicts performance metrics, and executes sophisticated auction logic to decide which ad to show and at what price. Every second, we process tens of thousands of requests where the intersection of market dynamics and machine learning creates unique challenges. In this position, you will lead our optimization efforts at the frontier of high-load low-latency Engineering, Auction Theory, and Mechanism Design.

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Salaries in Germany

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Median salarygross / year
€38,500
€30,000Typical range€54,000

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