Principal Applied Scientist Amazon
Principal Applied Scientist Amazon
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Yearly Salary
$ 179000 - 309400
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
18-04-2025
Job Description
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of selfservice performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create worldclass products. We are highly motivated collaborative and funloving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
The Ad Response Prediction team in the Sponsored Products organization builds GenAIbased shopper understanding and audience targeting systems along with advanced deeplearning models for Clickthrough Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) predictions. We develop largescale machinelearning (ML) pipelines and realtime serving infrastructure to match shoppers intent with relevant ads across all devices contexts and marketplaces. Through precise estimation of shoppers interactions with ads and their longterm value we aim to drive optimal ad allocation and pricing helping to deliver a relevant engaging and delightful advertising experience to Amazon shoppers. As our business grows and we undertake increasingly complex initiatives we are looking for entrepreneurial and selfdriven science leaders to join our team.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Applied Scientist in the team you will:
* Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business via principled ML solutions.
* Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.
* Design and lead organization wide ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our sellers.
* Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
* Identify untapped highrisk technical and scientific directions and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
* Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
* PhD in Computer Science Statistics or related field.
* 8 years of applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.
* 2 years handson experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.
* Track record of delivering largescale and highquality ML solutions.
* Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals.
* Experience in shipping largescale deep learning models for online recommendation personalization or search.
* Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure deep learning solutions meet latency requirements.
* Experience in building GenAIbased product strategy.
* Evidence of producing internal or external publications that motivate new lines of research.
* Excellent verbal and written communication.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The Ad Response Prediction team in the Sponsored Products organization builds GenAIbased shopper understanding and audience targeting systems along with advanced deeplearning models for Clickthrough Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) predictions. We develop largescale machinelearning (ML) pipelines and realtime serving infrastructure to match shoppers intent with relevant ads across all devices contexts and marketplaces. Through precise estimation of shoppers interactions with ads and their longterm value we aim to drive optimal ad allocation and pricing helping to deliver a relevant engaging and delightful advertising experience to Amazon shoppers. As our business grows and we undertake increasingly complex initiatives we are looking for entrepreneurial and selfdriven science leaders to join our team.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Applied Scientist in the team you will:
* Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business via principled ML solutions.
* Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.
* Design and lead organization wide ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our sellers.
* Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
* Identify untapped highrisk technical and scientific directions and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
* Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
* PhD in Computer Science Statistics or related field.
* 8 years of applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.
* 2 years handson experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.
* Track record of delivering largescale and highquality ML solutions.
* Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals.
* Experience in shipping largescale deep learning models for online recommendation personalization or search.
* Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure deep learning solutions meet latency requirements.
* Experience in building GenAIbased product strategy.
* Evidence of producing internal or external publications that motivate new lines of research.
* Excellent verbal and written communication.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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