Applied Scientist II, Amazon

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer to join their innovative team. This exciting role involves building and developing machine learning models that address complex content understanding challenges in advertising, utilizing both visual and textual features. You will collaborate with a diverse team of engineers and scientists to create scalable solutions that impact millions of ads daily. With a commitment to experimentation and innovation, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about leveraging technology to enhance customer experiences, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in building models for business applications.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop ML models for content understanding in Ads.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy models for ad moderation.

Skills

Machine Learning

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms and Data Structures

Data Mining

Numerical Optimization

High-Performance Computing

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

The ATT team, based in Bangalore, is responsible for ensuring that ads are relevant and of good quality, leading to higher conversion for the sellers and providing a great experience for the customers. We deal with one of the world’s largest product catalogs, handle billions of requests a day with plans to grow it by order of magnitude and use automated systems to validate tens of millions of offers submitted by thousands of merchants in multiple countries and languages.

In this role, you will build and develop ML models to address content understanding problems in Ads. These models will rely on a variety of visual and textual features requiring expertise in both domains. These models need to scale to multiple languages and countries. You will collaborate with engineers and other scientists to build, train, and deploy these models. As part of these activities, you will develop production-level code that enables moderation of millions of ads submitted each day.

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 in professional software development

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