Applied Science Manager, Advertising Trust

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Bengaluru is seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead a team of applied scientists building next-generation content moderation intelligence. You will own the science roadmap for high‑impact automation and define how multimodal understanding, retrieval-based labeling, and LLM reasoning combine into production systems that serve global advertising at scale.

The role requires 8+ years of applied research, 4+ years of management, and a track record delivering measurable business impact,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of applied research experience.
• 4+ years managing a team of 5–15.
• PhD or Master’s with 8+ years of applied research.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or Python.
• Experience in ML, DL, NLP or IR.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of applied scientists across multimodal ML, retrieval systems, and generative AI.
• Define the science strategy for ads trust.
• Own end-to-end delivery: problem formulation, offline experiments, online A/B testing, production deployment.
• Hire, mentor, and develop team members.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to translate science investments into automation improvements.
• Communicate science strategy and results to senior leadership.

Skills

Applied research

Team management

Java

C++

Python

ML

NLP

IR

Team size 5-15

Education

PhD

MS +8y

Job description

Applied Science Manager, Advertising Trust

Amazon Ads delivers advertising experiences across Amazon's owned-and-operated properties and third-party networks, reaching hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Within Amazon Ads, Advertising Trust is the science-first organization responsible for ensuring every ad shown to customers meets Amazon's content policies — at massive scale, across all ad formats and global marketplaces.

The Ads Trust Science team builds the ML systems that automate content moderation decisions: multimodal classification, retrieval-based labeling, LLM reasoning, and agentic self-improvement architectures. This requires inventing new approaches at the intersection of computer vision, NLP, information retrieval, and generative AI.

We are seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead a team of applied scientists building next-generation content moderation intelligence. You will own the science roadmap for one of the highest-impact automation programs in Amazon Advertising, defining how multimodal content understanding, retrieval-first classification, and LLM-based reasoning combine into a production system that serves global advertising at scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead a team of applied scientists working across multimodal ML (vision-language models, video understanding), large-scale retrieval systems (embedding-based similarity and deduplication), and generative AI (LLM-based policy reasoning, knowledge distillation, agentic architectures, reinforcement learning).
• Define the science strategy for ads trust.
• Own end-to-end delivery of ML solutions: problem formulation, offline experimentation, online A/B testing, and production deployment. Your models directly move automation and defect metrics reported to senior leadership.
• Build and grow scientists — hire, mentor, and develop team members. Raise the science bar through structured review processes and a publication culture within Amazon.
• Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to translate science investments into measurable automation improvements. Influence roadmaps across dependent teams.
• Communicate science strategy and results to senior leadership through narratives, technical deep-dives, and roadmap documents.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of applied research experience
• 4+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 8+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in several of the following areas: machine learning, statistics, deep learning, natural language processing, or information retrieval
• 4+ yrs in managing team of 5-15 members

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building production ML systems at Internet scale, especially involving multimodal deep learning, generative AI, or large-scale retrieval
• Track record of delivering automation or classification systems with measurable business impact
• Experience with content moderation, trust & safety, or policy enforcement systems
• Publications in top-tier ML/AI venues (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, KDD, ACL, AAAI)
• Experience with LLMs (fine-tuning, distillation, RLHF, prompt engineering)
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive science roadmaps that influence product and business strategy

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