Applied Scientist, Personalization & Recommendations

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 172,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Advertising seeks a lead ML expert to own the Applied Science strategy for recommendations and personalization. You will partner with leaders and cross-functional teams to shape the ML roadmap and deliver scalable models that impact millions of advertisers worldwide.

You will lead end-to-end ML projects, deploy models, run experiments, and build automated data workflows while exploring innovative approaches to push the boundaries of what’s possible in ads tech.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical leader in Machine Learning, driving collaboration between scientists and engineers, guiding efforts within the team and collaborating with other teams.
• Conduct hands‑on analysis and modeling of large‑scale data to generate insights that boost ads revenue while maintaining a positive advertiser and shopper experience.
• Lead end-to-end Machine Learning projects that involve high levels of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
• Build, experiment, optimize, and deploy machine learning models, collaborating with software engineers to bring your models into production.
• Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis to validate your models.
• Develop scalable and automated processes for large-scale data analysis, model development, validation, and serving.
• Explore and research innovative machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Skills

Machine Learning

Data analysis

Programming (Java, C++, Python)

Education

PhD

Master's + 5+ years CS/CE/ML

Tools

Unix/Linux

Software development

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Amazon Advertising seeks a lead ML expert to own the Applied Science strategy for recommendations and personalization. You will partner with leaders and cross-functional teams to shape the ML roadmap and deliver scalable models that impact millions of advertisers worldwide.

You will lead end-to-end ML projects, deploy models, run experiments, and build automated data workflows while exploring innovative approaches to push the boundaries of what’s possible in ads tech.