Applied Scientist II, Creative X - RAPID

Amazon • Seattle, WA

112d • $136,000 - $223,400

About The Position

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. Our team, CreativeX optimizations, is responsible for tailoring the visual experience of ads to each context in real time. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), reinforced learning (RL), Computer Vision, and related methods.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Unix/Linux.
• Experience in professional software development.
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application.

Responsibilities

• Build customer (advertiser) facing features.
• Contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team.
• Publish, patent, and bring state-of-the-art research to raise the bar within the team.

Benefits

• Equity options.
• Sign-on payments.
• Full range of medical benefits.
• Financial benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree