Senior Applied Scientist, Creative X - RAPID

Amazon • New York, NY

6d

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. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially with reinforcement learning and recommendations, and familiarity with LLMs, latent diffusion, or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to dynamically optimize ad creatives on behalf of advertisers. The role will focus on developing predictive creative recommendations along with insights to improve campaign performance and creative generation process. Every member of the team is expected to 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.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
• 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

• developing predictive creative recommendations
• developing insights to improve campaign performance and creative generation process
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees