Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa Ads

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ADCI - Karnataka, part of Amazon, is hiring an Applied Scientist to advance Alexa Agentic/Conversational Ads and Personalization in India. You will build ML models that weave advertising into the Alexa experience while personalizing interactions.

You will work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to take models from conception to production. Join a greenfield team in Bengaluru with global collaboration across Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore, driving research to

Qualifications

• 6+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.
• PhD or Master's with 6+ years of applied research.
• Proficient in ML frameworks and NLP methods.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evaluate innovative deep learning and GenAI models for natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and personalization.
• Conduct hands-on data analysis and build scalable ML pipelines.
• Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of new models on customer experience and ad performance.
• Collaborate with software development engineers to deploy models into high-scale, real-time production environments.

Skills

ML modeling

NLP

Data analysis

A/B testing

Education

PhD in CS / ML

Master's + 6+ years applied research

Tools

scikit-learn

Spark MLlib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Description

Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers, and is becoming the conversational AI interface for Amazon services with the launch of Alexa for Shopping on Amazon.com and Amazon mobile app. At Alexa Ads, we are creating industry's first and most advanced Agentic Advertising products to drive Agentic Commerce. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our newly expanding team in India focused on Alexa Agentic/Conversational Ads and Personalization. In this role, you will build machine learning models that seamlessly and naturally integrate relevant advertising into the Alexa experience while deeply personalizing user interactions. You will work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to take models from conception to production.

Description

Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers, and is becoming the conversational AI interface for Amazon services with the launch of Alexa for Shopping on Amazon.com and Amazon mobile app. At Alexa Ads, we are creating industry's first and most advanced Agentic Advertising products to drive Agentic Commerce. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our newly expanding team in India focused on Alexa Agentic/Conversational Ads and Personalization. In this role, you will build machine learning models that seamlessly and naturally integrate relevant advertising into the Alexa experience while deeply personalizing user interactions. You will work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to take models from conception to production.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evaluate innovative deep learning and GenAI models for natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and personalization.
• Conduct hands‑on data analysis and build scalable ML pipelines.
• Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of new models on customer experience and ad performance.
• Collaborate with software development engineers to deploy models into high-scale, real‑time production environments.

About The Team

We are building a new science team in Bangalore to solve some of the most impactful problems in computational advertising. This isn't about tweaking existing models as we are rethinking how ads are ranked, priced, and personalized across voice-first and screen-first surfaces. These are problems that don't have textbook solutions.

Key points to note about the team

• Greenfield team - you are not joining a mature org with rigid processes. You will shape the science roadmap, pick the problems, and define the culture from day one.
• Direct business impact — your models directly drive revenue. No yearly cycles to see if your work matters.
• Global scope, local autonomy — collaborate with scientists and engineers across Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore, but own your problem space end‑to‑end.
• Ship AND Publish: We encourage top-tier publications (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, ICML, WWW) while ensuring your research hits production.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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Company

ADCI - Karnataka

Job ID: A10417197