Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon • Palo Alto, CA

2d • 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 Sponsored Brands team at Amazon is building the next generation of brand advertising products and platforms for advertisers using Gen AI. This role presents an opportunity to join us at the ground floor of this transformation, which is a core part of Amazon's overall business strategy.

You will be the Gen AI applied science leader that will determine what products and ads show up in the most critical ad placements across Amazon. You'll have opportunities to deliver at the highest technical level, working with science, product, engineering, and UX, all directly connected to a marketplace of supply and demand. In this highly visible role, you'll collaborate across multiple stakeholders within Ads and Retail.

We are seeking a Gen AI Applied Science inventor who has strong product sense, with a proven track record with hands on science vision and execution while building high impact products from the ground up. you will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production. You will define the long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer’s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers.

Requirements

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in managing projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements.
• Tackle challenging problems and coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams to ensure customer and business goals are met.
• Interface across product, science, and engineering teams within the advertising and retail organizations.
• Drive mechanisms that allow the team to move quickly and deliver strong results.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and efficiency.
• Be responsible for project management - prioritize, plan projects and features, manage partners, and track external commitments.
• Recommend alternative technical approaches and partner with product, science, and engineering teams to meet timelines.
• Actively role model the use of GenAI to make the team more efficient.
• Design and implement Gen AI solutions that help millions of advertisers create more effective ad campaigns with intelligent recommendations, while improving the overall experience at Amazon's global scale.
• Invent, define, and deliver advertising products that drive brand discovery and sales.

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)

What This Job Offers

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