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Job Location drjobs

Seattle - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

$ 129400 - 212800

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazons fastest growing and most profitable businesses. 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. We optimize product placements using a combination of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) algorithms operating in low latency high-volume systems. We are highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving with entrepreneurial drive 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.

As an Applied Scientist you will take ownership of the technical roadmap and delivery of real-time scalable machine learning models influencing ad selection relevance and ranking models. You will work with other Applied Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to experiment and innovate quickly with a diverse set of models features and techniques in a high-volume low-latency environment. Our workflows scan billions of documents with milliseconds of latency budget while ensuring high relevance of retrieved items. So the level of quality and reliability is critically important.

As a Applied Scientist on this team you will:
- Build machine learning models that can scale to our run-time requirements.
- 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.
- Help recruit and mentor other Applied Scientists on the team.

About the team

The Sponsored Sourcing Index team helps deliver billions of ad impressions and millions daily clicks daily. Our core charter revolves around building state-of-art machine-learning (ML) and natural-language-processing (NLP) methodologies to improve the search indexing & ranking mechanisms which will directly improve the customer experience. Were a talented team of scientists and engineers working on complex and ambiguous problems and we have an engineering-driven culture that influences business outcomes.

- Masters degree in computer science mathematics statistics machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g. Oracle) or Data Warehouse

- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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 $129400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/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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