GenAI Applied Science Lead - Creative Quality & Safety

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 241,000 - 326,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Advertising's Creative X organization seeks a science leader to own Creative Understanding end to end. This hands-on leadership role directly guides a team of applied scientists and managers, shaping quality assessment, safety and moderation, and multimodal content understanding across products.

You will recruit, mentor, and scale a high‑performing team, set the scientific direction, collaborate with product and engineering, and deliver production-ready models that safeguard brand

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing applied science or ML teams, including 2+ years managing other managers or team leads.
• 7+ years applied science experience in CV, multimodal understanding, or content moderation and trust and safety.
• Experience delivering production ML models for content understanding, quality assessment, or safety and moderation.

Responsibilities

• Own the scientific direction for creative quality assessment, content moderation and trust and safety, evaluation and benchmarking, and multimodal content understanding.
• Directly lead a team of applied scientists while managing and developing subordinate leads and managers as the portfolio grows across understanding sub-domains.
• Drive end-to-end applied science programs with high ambiguity, scale, and complexity, and be accountable for the resulting models in production.
• Advance the science of evaluation: define how we measure creative quality, safety, and brand compliance, and build the benchmarks and metrics the broader org relies on.
• Research and apply new approaches in computer vision, vision-language models, and multimodal understanding, including quality and aesthetics scoring, safety classification, attribute and metadata extraction, and brand and logo detection.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow high‑performing applied scientists and science managers, and raise the hiring and technical bar for the team.
• Establish team mechanisms for planning, document and design reviews, and cross‑functional partnership with product and engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Applied science management

Computer vision

Multimodal understanding

Education

PhD

Master's degree in CS/CE/ML

Job description

Amazon Advertising's Creative X organization seeks a science leader to own Creative Understanding end to end. This hands-on leadership role directly guides a team of applied scientists and managers, shaping quality assessment, safety and moderation, and multimodal content understanding across products.

You will recruit, mentor, and scale a high‑performing team, set the scientific direction, collaborate with product and engineering, and deliver production-ready models that safeguard brand