Sr Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands Ads Response Prediction
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
Amazon Ads Response Prediction team is your choice if you want to join a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. We are seeking an experienced and motivated Machine Learning Applied Scientist who loves to innovate at the intersection of customer experience deep learning and high-scale machine-learning systems.
Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising and is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. We are defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products to improve both shopper and advertiser experience. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we grow at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
We are looking for a talented Machine Learning Applied Scientist for our Amazon Ads Response Prediction team to grow the business. We are providing advanced real-time machine learning services to connect shoppers with right ads on all platforms and surfaces worldwide. Through the deep understanding of both shoppers and products we help shoppers discover new products they love be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their customers and helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Machine Learning Applied Scientist you will:
* Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business and identify gaps and new opportunities
* Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems
* Run regular A/B experiments gather data and perform statistical analysis
* Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
* Improve the scalability efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics model training deployment and serving
* Conduct research on new machine-learning modeling to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products and Brands business
About the team
We are pioneers in applying advanced machine learning and generative AI algorithms in Sponsored Products and Brands business. We empower every customer with a customized discovery experiences from back-end optimization (such as customized response prediction models) to front-end CX innovation (such as widgets) to help shoppers feel understood and shop efficiently on and off Amazon.
- 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.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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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 CA Palo Alto - 192200.00 - 260000.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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