Senior AI/ML Scientist — Sponsored Products Bidding

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist for Sponsored Products Bidding in Seattle. You will define a long-term science vision for advertising, translate it into plans for researchers, engineers, and product teams, and drive ML-driven bidding innovations that impact shoppers and advertisers.

You will lead hands-on modeling on huge data sets, deploy models to production, and mentor junior scientists while collaborating with cross-functional partners across Ad Console, Sales, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
• Experience with AI/ML technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a new initiative across Sponsored Products Bidding focused on AI/ML based features.
• Be the technical leader in AI, Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams.
• Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.
• Drive end-to-end AI/Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.
• Build models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your AI/ML models.
• Run A/B 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.
• Research new and innovative AI/ machine learning approaches.
• Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

Skills

ML Modeling

Deep Learning

AI/ML Technologies

Programming: Java, C++, Python

Education

PhD

Master's + 6+ years applied research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon Advertising is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist for Sponsored Products Bidding in Seattle. You will define a long-term science vision for advertising, translate it into plans for researchers, engineers, and product teams, and drive ML-driven bidding innovations that impact shoppers and advertisers.

You will lead hands-on modeling on huge data sets, deploy models to production, and mentor junior scientists while collaborating with cross-functional partners across Ad Console, Sales, and