Senior AI Scientist - Ads Personalization & ML

Amazon; Corvallis (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Ads is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to advance ML and AI within our advertising platform. You will drive research and production deployment across ranking, personalization, NLP, CV, and recommender systems at massive scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other scientists to turn scientific insights into tangible business impact, balancing customer experience with monetization objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement cutting-edge ML approaches, including applications of generative AI and large language models.
• Develop and deploy innovative ML solutions spanning multiple disciplines – from ranking and personalization to NLP, computer vision, recommender systems, and large language models.
• Drive end-to-end projects that tackle ambiguous problems at massive scale, often working with petabytes of data.
• Build and optimize models that balance multiple stakeholder needs - helping customers discover relevant products while enabling advertisers to achieve their goals efficiently.
• Build ML models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production, working closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, and other scientists.
• Design and run A/B experiments to validate hypotheses, gather insights from large-scale data analysis, and measure business impact.
• Develop scalable, efficient processes for model development, validation, and deployment that optimize traffic monetization while maintaining customer experience

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Deep learning

NLP

Computer vision

Recommender systems

Large language models

Distributed systems

Education

PhD or Master's with 6+ years of applied research experience

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Spark MLlib

Hadoop

Spark

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon Ads is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to advance ML and AI within our advertising platform. You will drive research and production deployment across ranking, personalization, NLP, CV, and recommender systems at massive scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other scientists to turn scientific insights into tangible business impact, balancing customer experience with monetization objectives.