Applied Scientist, Sales AI

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 149,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking an Applied Scientist to advance autonomous AI agents for advertising sales workflows. You will design and evaluate RL/DL/NLP models at scale, partnering with engineers and product managers to deploy production-ready services that drive advertiser insights and recommendations.

The role requires 3+ years of model-building experience, a PhD or Master’s in CS/CE/ML, and strong publication or patent history.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications.
• Experience with patents or publications at top-tier conferences or journals.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, numerical optimization, or data mining.

Responsibilities

• Lead state-of-the-art research in RL, DL, NLP, LLM, and recommender systems for AI agents in ads.
• Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to productionize models and measure impact.
• Translate complex findings into actionable business recommendations and executive reports.

Skills

Model building

NLP/ML concepts

Statistical analysis

Education

PhD or Master’s in CS/CE/ML

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing team with an exciting AI-first charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights.

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. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top Applied Science talent to help us build new, science-backed services that drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating AI agents that help optimize their end-to-end workflows, and developing actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts.

As an Applied Scientist on the team with a specific focus on creating autonomous AI agents that can operate accurately at large scale, you will bring deep expertise in Natural Language Processing (inc. tokenization, syntactic parsing, named entity recognition (NER), sentiment analysis, text classification), Large Language Models (inc. foundation model fundamentals, post-training, reward modeling, RAG, transformer architecture), Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning and/or Recommender Systems. You have the scientific and technical skills to build and refine models that can be implemented in production and you continuously measure the performance of your system to drive continuous improvements. You will contribute to chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers. You will be part of a team of fellow scientists and engineers taking on iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. You are fluently able to leverage the latest Generative AI systems and services to accelerate and improve your work while maintaining high quality in your work outputs.

Key job responsibilities

Scientific Modeling

• Conceptualize and lead state-of-the-art research on new Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, LLM, (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Recommender System solutions to create AI agents and optimize all aspects of the Ad Sales business
• Lead the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects
• Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis
• Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving
• Publish scientific findings in reports and papers that can be shared internally and externally

Product Development Support

• Partner with software engineering and product management teams to support product and service development, define success metrics and measurement approaches, and help drive adoption of innovative new features for our services.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions with product teams and business stakeholders
• Maintain scientific documentation and knowledge for product initiatives

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
• Translate complex scientific findings into actionable business recommendations for stakeholders and senior management
• Provide clear, compelling reports and presentations on a regular basis with respect to your models and services
• Communicate with internal teams to showcase results and identify best practices.

About the team

Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution, or experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, ON, Toronto - 149,300.00 - 249,300.00 CAD annually