Sr. Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search

The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through state-of-the-art generative AI technologies revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers enhance the shopping experience and strengthen the marketplace. If youre energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of whats possible with AI join us in shaping the future of advertising.

The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on building delightful ad experiences across various surfaces beyond Search on Amazonsuch as product detail pages the homepage and store-in-store pagesto drive monetization. Our vision is to deliver highly personalized context-aware advertising that adapts to individual shopper preferences scales across diverse page types remains relevant to seasonal and event-driven moments and integrates seamlessly with organic recommendations such as new arrivals basket-building content and fast-delivery options. To execute this vision we work in close partnership with Amazon Stores stakeholders to lead the expansion and growth of advertising across Amazon-owned and -operated pages beyond Search. We operate full stackfrom backend ads-retail edge services ads retrieval and ad auctions to shopper-facing experiencesall designed to deliver meaningful value.

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Key job responsibilities
This role will be pivotal in redesigning how ads contribute to a personalized relevant and inspirational shopping experience with the customer value proposition at the forefront. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Contribute to the design and development of GenAI deep learning multi-objective optimization and/or reinforcement learning empowered solutions to transform ad retrieval auctions whole-page relevance and/or bespoke shopping experiences.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other scientists engineers and product managers to bring scalable production-ready science solutions to life.
- Stay abreast of industry trends in GenAI LLMs and related disciplines bringing fresh and innovative concepts ideas and prototypes to the organization.
- Contribute to the enhancement of teams scientific and technical rigor by identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms methodologies and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling.
- Mentor and grow junior scientists and engineers cultivating a high-performing collaborative and intellectually curious team.



A day in the life
As an Applied Scientist on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team you will contribute to the development in Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize our advertising flow backend optimization and frontend shopping experiences. This is a rare opportunity to redefine how ads are retrieved allocated and/or experiencedelevating them into personalized contextually aware and inspiring components of the customer journey. You will have the opportunity to fundamentally transform areas such as ad retrieval ad allocation whole-page relevance and differentiated recommendations through the lens of GenAI. By building novel generative models grounded in both Amazons rich data and the worlds collective knowledge your work will shape how customers engage with ads discover products and make purchasing decisions. If you are passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world problems with massive scale and impact this is your opportunity to define the next chapter of advertising science.

About the team
The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on building delightful ad experiences across various surfaces beyond Search on Amazonsuch as product detail pages the homepage and store-in-store pagesto drive monetization. Our vision is to deliver highly personalized context-aware advertising that adapts to individual shopper preferences scales across diverse page types remains relevant to seasonal and event-driven moments and integrates seamlessly with organic recommendations such as new arrivals basket-building content and fast-delivery options. To execute this vision we work in close partnership with Amazon Stores stakeholders to lead the expansion and growth of advertising across Amazon-owned and -operated pages beyond Search. We operate full stackfrom backend ads-retail edge services ads retrieval and ad auctions to shopper-facing experiencesall designed to deliver meaningful value.

Curious about our advertising solutions Discover more about Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands to see how were helping businesses grow on and beyond!

- PhD or Masters degree and 8 years of applied research experience
- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Strong foundation in GenAI large language models machine learning deep learning probabilistic modeling and/or optimization.
- Experience developing and deploying models in real-world production environments.

- Proven expertise in Generative AI foundation models LLMs and/or fine-tuning and customization for downstream tasks.
- Hands-on experience in ads ranking retrieval recommendation systems search or personalization at web scale.
- Deep understanding of multi-modal modeling few-shot learning retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
- Experience with online experimentation A/B testing frameworks and metrics design for advertising or e-commerce.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience in computational advertising including familiarity with auction theory ad economics and advertiser performance metrics.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260000/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.