Lead Scientist, Ads Measurement & GenAI

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); Presencial; USD 219.000 - 296.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

RSUs and sign-on payments

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Comprehensive benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Advertising LLC in New York seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the scientific vision for Ads measurement, spanning ML, causal inference, NLP, and Generative AI. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team to ship products quantifying the full impact of ad spend online and offline across timescales.

The role emphasizes thought leadership, collaboration with researchers and engineers, and building scalable modeling and software solutions.

Formación

• 7+ years of hands-on work in predictive modeling and analysis
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Experience working in predictive modeling and analysis
• Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with leading experienced scientists as well as having a record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a career track in a business environment

Responsabilidades

• Driving the scientific vision of the teams in your organization and you advise and influence its technical leadership on performance measurement models and products.
• Identifying, tackling, and proposing innovative solutions to intrinsically hard, previously unsolved problems. You solve problems pragmatically, applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
• Bringing clarity to complex problems, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls, fostering shared understanding, and guiding towards effective solutions.
• Serving and being recognized by internal and external peers as a thought leader in modeled measurement in Ads. You will engage routinely with the broader scientific community, e.g. as a reviewer, program committee member, workshop organizer, or chair at peer-reviewed internal/external conferences.
• Leading by example, with your papers, analyses, and code setting the standard in your organization for scientific engineering excellence.
• Leading science and design reviews, aligning teams across your organization around coherent algorithmic strategies.
• Influencing your team’s science and business strategy by driving one or more team roadmaps contributing to the organization’s roadmap and taking responsibility for some organizational goals.
• Guiding the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger applied science community on trends, technologies, and best practices. You drive the documentation of scientific innovation. You attract bar-raising talent from academia and industry.
• Staying abreast of academic and industry trends, knowing the state of the art, and building on top of existing solutions instead of reinventing when possible.

Conocimientos

Predictive modeling

Leadership of scientists

Experimentation design

Communication with stakeholders

Ambiguity handling

Educación

PhD in EE/CS/Math

Herramientas

Java

C++

Python

Descripción del empleo

Amazon Advertising LLC in New York seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the scientific vision for Ads measurement, spanning ML, causal inference, NLP, and Generative AI. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team to ship products quantifying the full impact of ad spend online and offline across timescales.

The role emphasizes thought leadership, collaboration with researchers and engineers, and building scalable modeling and software solutions.