Principal Scientist, Agentic AI for Ads Optimization

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 219,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for the FAIM team to invent models that optimize advertiser outcomes. You will set the scientific direction for training models in our RL Gym, develop joint budget allocation and incrementality techniques, and productionize ML solutions that serve live advertiser campaigns.

You will partner with engineering and product to take ideas from research to production at Amazon scale, guiding experiments and publishing impactful research in top venues.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term scientific vision for our RL Gym based training process focusing on campaign optimization and other advertising workflows.
• Translating ambiguous advertiser needs and competing objectives into a concrete science roadmap.
• Invent, prototype, and productionize machine learning and optimization solutions for joint budget allocation across sponsored ad products, spanning the shopper journey from awareness to purchase.
• Develop rigorous approaches to incrementality measurement and long‑term‑sales modeling that ground optimization in true advertiser value.
• Design and lead large-scale experiments and analyses to validate hypotheses and guide product direction.
• Partner closely with engineering and product to define technical contracts, data schemas, and serving systems that carry models into production.
• Raise the technical bar across science and engineering through mentorship, design reviews, and hands‑on collaboration.
• Grow scientific talent and publish impactful research internally and at top‑tier venues.

Skills

Predictive modeling

Leadership

Programming (Java/C++/Python)

Ambiguity handling

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related

Tools

None

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for the FAIM team to invent models that optimize advertiser outcomes. You will set the scientific direction for training models in our RL Gym, develop joint budget allocation and incrementality techniques, and productionize ML solutions that serve live advertiser campaigns.

You will partner with engineering and product to take ideas from research to production at Amazon scale, guiding experiments and publishing impactful research in top venues.