Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products & Brands

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

Calling all inventors to work on exciting new opportunities in Sponsored Products. We are a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.

You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across Amazon stores worldwide. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity experimentation and product innovation.

Key job responsibilities
- Tackle and solve challenging science and business problems that balance the interests of advertisers shoppers and Amazon.
- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity scale complexity.
- Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions.
- Develop efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization using deep learning methods to find operating points for the ad marketplace then evolve them
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
- Recruit Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually