Applied Scientist II — AI Bidding for Sponsored Ads

Amazon Inc.; Asti; Hybrid; EUR 127,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking an Applied Scientist II for Sponsored Products Bidding. You will lead AI/ML features, guide cross-team efforts, and analyze massive data to improve traffic monetization and sales while maintaining shopper experience.

This role requires a PhD or Master’s with several years of modeling, strong programming in Java/C++/Python, and expertise in experimental design and statistics; expect challenging, impactful work across a fast-growing ad platform.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 4+ years of CS/CE/ML or related field experience.
• 3+ years of building models for business applications.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI/ML based features for Sponsored Products Bidding initiatives.
• Be the technical leader in AI/ML; guide efforts within the team and beyond.
• Analyze enormous data sets to derive insights increasing traffic monetization.
• Drive end-to-end AI/ML projects with ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
• Build, validate, and deploy models; collaborate with software engineers.
• Run A/B experiments and perform statistical analysis on results.
• Create scalable processes for data analysis, model development, and validation.
• Research new and innovative AI/ML approaches.

Skills

PhD

Master's degree

CS/CE/ML experience

Java

C++

Python

Experiment design

Statistical analysis

Model building

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Amazon Advertising is seeking an Applied Scientist II for Sponsored Products Bidding. You will lead AI/ML features, guide cross-team efforts, and analyze massive data to improve traffic monetization and sales while maintaining shopper experience.

This role requires a PhD or Master’s with several years of modeling, strong programming in Java/C++/Python, and expertise in experimental design and statistics; expect challenging, impactful work across a fast-growing ad platform.