Applied Scientist, CreativeX

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking an Applied Scientist for the Creative X team to advance Generative AI methods for advertising creativity. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to bring state-of-the-art AI to advertiser-facing tools.

You will prototype, validate, and productionize ML models, publish findings, and contribute to IP development while mentoring teammates and influencing product strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience applying ML to creative or advertising domains.
• Strong background in ML research and model development.
• Ability to run and interpret A/B experiments.

Responsibilities

• Drive the invention and development of Generative AI methods for ads.
• Develop end-to-end ML projects from concept to production.
• Build interface-oriented systems integrating ML models with production software.
• Run A/B experiments, collect data, and perform statistical analysis.
• Establish scalable processes for large-scale data analysis and model serving.
• Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists.
• Present results to senior leadership and publish where appropriate.
• Pursue IP submissions and patents.

Skills

Generative AI

Machine Learning

Latent diffusion

LLM

Data analysis

Job description

Description

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers.

Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (audio, images, videos, text) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in understanding how best users can leverage Generative AI methods such as latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), generative audio (music and speech synthesis), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL) and related.

As an Applied Scientist you will be part of a close-knit team of other applied scientists, engineers and product managers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields.

We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially at the interface of how users can use state-of-the-art generative music and audio, computer vision, latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring innovative research to raise the bar within the team.

You will:

• Drive the invention and development of novel methods for the use of Generative AI in ads
• Work closely and integrate end-to-end proof-of-concept Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity.
• Build interface-oriented systems that use Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
• Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
• Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists to the team.
• Present results and explain methods to senior leadership.
• Willingness to publish research at internal and external top scientific venues.
• Write and pursue IP submissions.

Key job responsibilities

This role is focused on developing Machine Learning and Generative AI methods to augment generative imagery and videos. You will develop new paradigms that will impact how users can engage and benefit from GenAI and that are at the core of advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You will also work on development of ML and GenAI models. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the top of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers, who will partner with you to productize your work.