Machine Learning Engineer, Sponsored Products Off-Search Sourcing and Relevance

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable
businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising
products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our
advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors,
and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales
of their products sold through Amazon. The SP organization's primary goals are
to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for
advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business
that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions
are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to
drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of
clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

Our team, Off-Search Sourcing and Relevance, has a mission to deliver relevant
and useful shopping experience at non-Search pages at Amazon.com. We innovate
technology solutions, develop state of the art machine learning models that
incorporate deep product and shopper understanding, and conduct A/B tests to
ensure that we identify all useful and relevant advertisements and provide them
to downstream systems for click through prediction and ad auction.

We looking for a Software Engineer with Machine Learning knowledge. As an
engineer on the team, you will drive major product and engineering initiatives,
build large-scale, low-latency distributed systems, build ML infrastructure and
data processing pipelines. You will work with Product Managers and Scientists to
solve complex problems at Amazon-scale, bringing your engineering skills
together to launch solutions that will have direct customer impact.

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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing

Responsibilities

• Designing, coding, troubleshooting, and supporting data pipelines and online ad serving systems. Continuously work to understand our customers and our business
• Architect and design ad serving systems that solve real-world customer use cases
• Integrate your solutions with high volume and low latency distributed systems
• Measure the impact and customer response to your solutions through rapid experimentation

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