Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands
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 and enhance the shopping experience, for customers. 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. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join the Sponsored Prompts team within the Conversational Discovery Experiences (CAX) in Sponsored Products and Brands. This team owns Sponsored Prompt generation, quality and personalization, a new conversational ad format powered by large language models (LLMs) that helps shoppers discover products across Amazon.com. As an Applied Scientist, you will design and build core components of the prompt generation pipeline, develop new prompt themes, and improve quality frameworks that drive coverage expansion across all surfaces. You will define and run experiments to improve CTR, helpfulness, and advertiser outcomes, and contribute to the science roadmap for prompt generation and personalization. This role requires strong technical depth in NLP, LLMs, and information retrieval, combined with the ability to translate research into production systems at scale. You will work across organizational boundaries with engineering, product, and business teams to turn science investments into measurable business impact.
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 AI/ML technologies
Responsibilities
- Design and build core components of the prompt generation pipeline
- Develop new prompt themes
- Improve quality frameworks that drive coverage expansion across all surfaces
- Define and run experiments to improve CTR, helpfulness, and advertiser outcomes
- Contribute to the science roadmap for prompt generation and personalization
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
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
