Applied Scientist II: Conversational AI & Ads

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a science leader for the SPB team within Amazon Ads, focusing on generative AI and LLM tech to re-define ad experiences for shoppers in conversational contexts. You will guide science roadmaps and work with cross‑functional teams to deliver production-ready models across advertising products.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, product managers and researchers, with responsibilities spanning research, experimentation, and talent development in a

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 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

Responsibilities

• Define the science roadmap for multiple projects in the conversational ad experiences space powered by LLMs.
• Build POCs, optimize and deploy models into production, run experiments, perform deep dives on experiment data to gather actionable learnings and communicate them to senior leadership
• Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end‑to‑end solutions in production.
• Work closely with product managers to contribute to our mission, and proactively identify opportunities where science can help improve customer experience
• Research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation
• Be a member of the Amazon‑wide machine learning community, participating in internal and external meetups, hackathons and conferences
• Help attract and recruit technical talent, mentor scientists and engineers in the team

Skills

Machine learning

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms

Distributed computing

Unix/Linux

Software development

Education

PhD

Masters degree

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a science leader for the SPB team within Amazon Ads, focusing on generative AI and LLM tech to re-define ad experiences for shoppers in conversational contexts. You will guide science roadmaps and work with cross‑functional teams to deliver production-ready models across advertising products.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, product managers and researchers, with responsibilities spanning research, experimentation, and talent development in a