Senior Applied Scientist , Sponsored Products

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through 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.

We are seeking a technical leader for our Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team to lead a multi-disciplinary team of science and engineering. This team is within the Sponsored Product team and works on complex engineering optimization econometric and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. The team operates with the dual objective of enhancing the experience of Amazon shoppers and enabling the monetization of our online and mobile page properties. Our work spans ML and Data science across predictive modeling reinforcement learning (Bandits) adaptive experimentation causal inference data engineering.


Key job responsibilities
Search Thematic Advertising Experiences within Sponsored Products is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join a fast growing team with the mandate of creating new ads experience that elevates the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide. We are looking for a top analytical mind capable of understanding our complex ecosystem of advertisers participating in a pay-per-click model and leveraging this knowledge to help turn the flywheel of the business.
As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will:
--Act as the technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects.
--Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams.
--Build machine learning models perform proof-of-concept experiment optimize and deploy your models into production.
--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.
--Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
--Research new machine learning approaches.
--Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and act as a mentor to other scientists on the team.

A day in the life
The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity with strong attention to detail and with an ability to work in a fast-paced high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must.

About the team
We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers technologists product leaders and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon

- 4 years of applied research experience
- 3 years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
- 3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 6 years of applied research experience
- Knowledge of ML NLP Information Retrieval and Analytics
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language

- Experience building complex software systems especially involving deep learning machine learning and computer vision that have been successfully delivered to customers

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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 NY New York - 202200.00 - 273600.00 USD annually
USA WA SEATTLE - 183800.00 - 248700.00 USD annually