Applied Scientist II, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • Seattle, WA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

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 Amazon.com 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 you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

The Gnome team within the Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) improves ad selection helping shoppers reach their shopping mission. To do this, we apply a broad range of machine learning, causal inference, reinforcement learning based optimization techniques and LLMs to continuously explore, learn, and optimize ads shown. We are an interdisciplinary team with a focus on customer obsession and inventing and simplifying. Our primary focus is on improving the ads experience by gaining a deep understanding of shopper pain points and developing new innovative solutions to address them.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's 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

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Improve quality of ads shown using in-session and offline signals via online experimentation, ML modeling, simulation, and online feedback.
• Identify opportunities for the team to make a direct impact on customers and the search experience.
• Work closely with search and retail partner teams, software engineers and product managers to build scalable real-time ML solutions.
• Design, run, and analyze A/B experiments that improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers while driving quantifiable revenue impact while broadening your technical skillset.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level