Applied Scientist II, Sponsored Products, Amazon
Applied Scientist II, Sponsored Products, Amazon
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$ 136000 - 223400
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10-06-2025
Job Description
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazons fastest growing and most profitable businesses responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants retail vendors and brand owners succeed via native advertising which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP teams primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!
Does serving ads to billions of search requests daily and finding the most relevant ads for a search page from billions of ads in 10s of milliseconds excite you
The Sponsored Products Demand Utilization team owns finding the appropriate ads to surface to customers when they search for products on Amazon. We strive to understand our customers intent and identify relevant ads which enable them to discover new and alternate products. This also enables sellers on Amazon to showcase their products to customers which may at times be buried deeper in the search results.
Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the worlds largest product catalogs matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. We are a team of machine learning scientists and software engineers working on complex solutions to understand the customer intent and present them with ads that are not only relevant to their actual shopping experience but also non-obtrusive. This area is of strategic importance to Amazon Retail and Marketplace business driving long term-growth.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist II with a background in Machine Learning to optimize serving ads on billions of product pages. The solutions you create would drive step increases in coverage of sponsored ads across the retail website and ensure relevant ads are served to Amazons customers. You will directly impact our customers shopping experience while helping our sellers get the maximum ROI from advertising on Amazon. You will be expected to demonstrate strong ownership and should be curious to learn and leverage the rich textual image and other contextual signals. This role will challenge you to utilize cutting-edge machine learning techniques in the domain of predictive modeling natural language processing (NLP) deep learning reinforcement learning query understanding vector search (kNN) and image recognition to deliver significant impact for the business. Ideal candidates will be able to work cross functionally across multiple stakeholders synthesize the science needs of our business partners develop models to solve business needs and implement solutions in production. In addition to being a strongly motivated IC you will also be responsible for mentoring junior scientists and guiding them to deliver high impacting products and services for Amazon customers and sellers.
Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazons Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions millions of clicks daily and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business driven from our customers needs translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership organizational ability technical strength product focus and business understanding.
Team video job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist II on this team you will:
- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity scale complexity.
- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising the shopper experience.
- Build machine learning models perform proof-of-concept experiment optimize and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in deploying your ML models.
- Run A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis.
- Establish scalable efficient automated processes for large-scale data analysis machine-learning model development model validation and serving.
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 3 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience with AI NLP Big Data large scale distributed systems search online recommendation personalization
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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 $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.
Does serving ads to billions of search requests daily and finding the most relevant ads for a search page from billions of ads in 10s of milliseconds excite you
The Sponsored Products Demand Utilization team owns finding the appropriate ads to surface to customers when they search for products on Amazon. We strive to understand our customers intent and identify relevant ads which enable them to discover new and alternate products. This also enables sellers on Amazon to showcase their products to customers which may at times be buried deeper in the search results.
Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the worlds largest product catalogs matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. We are a team of machine learning scientists and software engineers working on complex solutions to understand the customer intent and present them with ads that are not only relevant to their actual shopping experience but also non-obtrusive. This area is of strategic importance to Amazon Retail and Marketplace business driving long term-growth.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist II with a background in Machine Learning to optimize serving ads on billions of product pages. The solutions you create would drive step increases in coverage of sponsored ads across the retail website and ensure relevant ads are served to Amazons customers. You will directly impact our customers shopping experience while helping our sellers get the maximum ROI from advertising on Amazon. You will be expected to demonstrate strong ownership and should be curious to learn and leverage the rich textual image and other contextual signals. This role will challenge you to utilize cutting-edge machine learning techniques in the domain of predictive modeling natural language processing (NLP) deep learning reinforcement learning query understanding vector search (kNN) and image recognition to deliver significant impact for the business. Ideal candidates will be able to work cross functionally across multiple stakeholders synthesize the science needs of our business partners develop models to solve business needs and implement solutions in production. In addition to being a strongly motivated IC you will also be responsible for mentoring junior scientists and guiding them to deliver high impacting products and services for Amazon customers and sellers.
Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazons Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions millions of clicks daily and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business driven from our customers needs translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership organizational ability technical strength product focus and business understanding.
Team video job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist II on this team you will:
- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity scale complexity.
- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising the shopper experience.
- Build machine learning models perform proof-of-concept experiment optimize and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in deploying your ML models.
- Run A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis.
- Establish scalable efficient automated processes for large-scale data analysis machine-learning model development model validation and serving.
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 3 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in professional software development
- Experience with AI NLP Big Data large scale distributed systems search online recommendation personalization
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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 $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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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