Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
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. 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 are looking for an accomplished machine learning expert to lead the Applied Science strategy for our Media Planning Science this role you will work closely with business leaders stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive program success through ML-driven solutions. You will shape the applied science roadmap promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and deliver significant business impact using advanced data techniques and applied science methodologies.
Key job responsibilities
As An Applied Scientist On This Team You Will
1. Serve as the technical leader in Machine Learning guiding efforts within the team and collaborating with other teams.
2. Conduct hands-on analysis and modeling of large-scale data to generate insights that boost traffic monetization and merchandise sales while maintaining a positive shopper experience.
3. Lead end-to-end Machine Learning projects that involve high levels of ambiguity scale and complexity.
4. Build experiment optimize and deploy machine learning models collaborating with software engineers to bring your models into production.
5. Run A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis to validate your models.
6. Develop scalable and automated processes for large-scale data analysis model development validation and serving.
7. Explore and research innovative machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of whats possible.
About the team
The Media Planning Science team builds and deploys models that provide insights and recommendations for media planning. Our mission is to assist advertisers in activating plans that align with their goals. Our insights and recommendations leverage heuristic and machine learning models to simplify the complex tasks of forecasting outcome prediction budget planning optimized audience selection and measurements for media planners. We integrate our insights into user interfaces and programmatic integrations via APIs ensuring reliable data timely delivery and optimal advertising outcomes for our advertisers.
- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 6 years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience with modeling tools such as R scikit-learn Spark MLLib MxNet Tensorflow numpy scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop Spark etc.
- Experience in working with Agentic AI and Gen AI applications
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.
We are looking for an accomplished machine learning expert to lead the Applied Science strategy for our Media Planning Science this role you will work closely with business leaders stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive program success through ML-driven solutions. You will shape the applied science roadmap promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and deliver significant business impact using advanced data techniques and applied science methodologies.
Key job responsibilities
As An Applied Scientist On This Team You Will
1. Serve as the technical leader in Machine Learning guiding efforts within the team and collaborating with other teams.
2. Conduct hands-on analysis and modeling of large-scale data to generate insights that boost traffic monetization and merchandise sales while maintaining a positive shopper experience.
3. Lead end-to-end Machine Learning projects that involve high levels of ambiguity scale and complexity.
4. Build experiment optimize and deploy machine learning models collaborating with software engineers to bring your models into production.
5. Run A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis to validate your models.
6. Develop scalable and automated processes for large-scale data analysis model development validation and serving.
7. Explore and research innovative machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of whats possible.
About the team
The Media Planning Science team builds and deploys models that provide insights and recommendations for media planning. Our mission is to assist advertisers in activating plans that align with their goals. Our insights and recommendations leverage heuristic and machine learning models to simplify the complex tasks of forecasting outcome prediction budget planning optimized audience selection and measurements for media planners. We integrate our insights into user interfaces and programmatic integrations via APIs ensuring reliable data timely delivery and optimal advertising outcomes for our advertisers.
- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 6 years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience with modeling tools such as R scikit-learn Spark MLLib MxNet Tensorflow numpy scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop Spark etc.
- Experience in working with Agentic AI and Gen AI applications
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Protein Purification
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Flow Cytometry
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