Sr Applied Scientist GenAI Video, CreativeX

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazons fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazons advertising portfolio helps merchants retail vendors and brand owners succeed via native advertising which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The 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! The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (text audio images videos) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this we are investing in latent-diffusion models large language models (LLM) generative audio (music and speech synthesis) computer vision (CV) reinforced learning (RL) and related methods. You will be part of a close-knit team of applied scientists and product managers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who have a proven record of developing Generative AI science at the highest standards of innovation and experience working and delivering product-ready code are adept at a variety of skills especially with LLMs generative audio computer vision latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team publish patent and bring cutting edge research to raise the bar within the team.

Key job responsibilities
This role is focused on Generative Video and related Science to develop and produce generative imagery and videos. You must have deep technical experience working with methods and technologies related to GenAI. A strong developing machine learning background is preferred in addition to experience building GenAI applications and research. You will develop core models that will be the foundational of the core advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the cutting edge of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers who will partner with you to productize your work. As Sr Applied Scientist on this team you will:
Drive end-to-end GenAI projects that have a high degree of ambiguity scale and complexity.
Build Machine Learning models perform proof-of-concept experiment optimize and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
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.
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.
Identify and action data collection and labelling in conjunction with team members.
Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists to the team.
Present results and explain methods to senior leadership.
Willingness to publish research at internal and external top scientific venues.
Write and pursue IP submissions.


A day in the life
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.

About the team
The team is a growing team of applied scientists and product leaders. We reside in the Creative X organization which focuses on creating products for advertisers that will improve the quality of the creatives within Amazon Ads. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: USA (Seattle)


- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 3 years of applied research experience
- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C Python Java or Perl
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience with GenAI model training and tuning

- Advanced degree in Computer Science Mathematics Statistics Economics or related quantitative field.
- Published relevant research work in academic conferences or industry circles.
- Experience in building large-scale machine-learning models and infra for online recommendation ads ranking personalization or search etc.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with non-technical and technical audiences.
- Experience working with large real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.
- Thinks strategically but stays on top of tactical execution.
- Exhibits excellent business judgment; balances business product and technology very well.
- Experience in computational advertising.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually