Principal Applied Scientist, AI for Advertiser Growth

Amazon; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 309,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for Advertiser Growth in the Sponsored Products & Brands area. You will lead a large team to create agentic AI experiences for millions of advertisers, defining science roadmaps and delivering customer-facing AI products that optimize campaigns and insights across Ad Console, sales-managed, and 3P channels.

This role emphasizes applied AI, RL, NLP, and scalable experimentation, plus mentoring of talent and communication of results to senior

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
• 5+ years of applied ML experience in customer-facing recommender systems.
• Hands-on experience with prototyping AI solutions for real-world use cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead science roadmap for agentic AI for advertisers across multiple channels.
• Develop methods for fine-tuning, RL, and preference optimization at scale.
• Mentor Applied AI talent and communicate learnings to leadership.

Skills

PhD in CS/Stats

Applied ML

Recommender systems

NLP

Education

PhD in Computer Science or Statistics

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for Advertiser Growth in the Sponsored Products & Brands area. You will lead a large team to create agentic AI experiences for millions of advertisers, defining science roadmaps and delivering customer-facing AI products that optimize campaigns and insights across Ad Console, sales-managed, and 3P channels.

This role emphasizes applied AI, RL, NLP, and scalable experimentation, plus mentoring of talent and communication of results to senior