Applied Scientist , Sponsored Products

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist for their Search Supply & Experiences team to solve challenges in natural language understanding and personalization. This role involves designing and deploying machine learning models to enhance customer experiences and increase monetization. Candidates should have a strong background in data analysis and machine learning, with at least a Master's degree or PhD. The position emphasizes innovation and a commitment to customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java, C++, Python or related languages.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, and data mining.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of large datasets.
• Drive end-to-end machine learning projects with high ambiguity.
• Design and run experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.

Skills

Machine Learning

Data Analysis

Statistical Analysis

Programming

Optimization

Education

PhD or Master's degree in CS, CE, ML or related field

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Job ID: 2924175 | Amazon.com Services LLC

The Search Supply & Experiences team, within Sponsored Products, is seeking an Applied Scientist to solve challenging problems in natural language understanding, personalization, and other areas using the latest techniques in machine learning. In our team, you will have the opportunity to create new ads experiences that elevate the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide.

As an Applied Scientist, you will partner with other talented scientists and engineers to design, train, test, and deploy machine learning models. You will be responsible for translating business and engineering requirements into deliverables, and performing detailed experiment analysis to determine how shoppers and advertisers are responding to your changes.

We are looking for candidates who thrive in an exciting, fast-paced environment and who have a strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies with high customer impact.

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist on the Search Supply & Experiences team you will:

- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous datasets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.
- Drive end-to-end machine learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
- Build 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.
- Design and run 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.
- Stay up to date on the latest advances in machine learning.

About the team
We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to shoppers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon

BASIC 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in professional software development
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability or other legally protected status.