Applied Scientist, Marketing Science — Optimize Marketing ROI

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City is seeking an Applied Scientist for Prime Video Marketing Science. You will own the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art marketing insights and optimization models.

You will build models, work with cross-functional teams, and influence investment decisions with robust analytics and clear communication. A strong ML background and publications are encouraged.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Statistics, or related fields.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application.

Responsibilities

• Build sequential decision-making frameworks (e.g., MDPs, multi-armed bandits, dynamic programming) to optimize marketing resource allocation over time under uncertainty.
• Create predictive models to forecast marketing efficiency and aid strategic budget allocation across channels, campaigns, and markets.
• Design and analyze geo-level and regional hold-out experiments to validate model predictions and establish ground truth.
• Automate and scale our modeling infrastructure to improve efficiency and expand coverage across use cases and geographies.
• Collaborate with leaders across business and finance teams to translate business questions into well-posed statistical and optimization problems.
• Quantify uncertainty in model outputs and communicate results, limitations, and recommendations clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

Master's degree or higher in Engineering/CS/ML

Tools

ML Toolkits

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City is seeking an Applied Scientist for Prime Video Marketing Science. You will own the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art marketing insights and optimization models.

You will build models, work with cross-functional teams, and influence investment decisions with robust analytics and clear communication. A strong ML background and publications are encouraged.