Senior Applied Scientist, Ads Foundational AI

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 184,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon in New York, NY is seeking a Sr Applied Scientist for FAIM (Full Funnel Agentic Intelligence and Models) to drive innovation in ads foundational modeling. This is a green-field, lead-by-example role specializing in agentic AI-powered models to improve advertiser performance and user experience.

You will work on building state-of-the-art evaluations, contribute to online/offline metrics, and shape when new features are ready for release within Ads Agent.

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Responsibilities

• Drive the science vision for developing evaluations of the Ads Agent.
• Partner with senior and principal scientists from across Ads to develop best practices for evaluating agent performance both online and offline.
• Raise the science bar for all agent evaluations developed in Ads.
• Deliver a data driven foundation for making decisions about when new features are ready to launch in Ads Agent.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

numpy

scipy

Job description

Amazon in New York, NY is seeking a Sr Applied Scientist for FAIM (Full Funnel Agentic Intelligence and Models) to drive innovation in ads foundational modeling. This is a green-field, lead-by-example role specializing in agentic AI-powered models to improve advertiser performance and user experience.

You will work on building state-of-the-art evaluations, contribute to online/offline metrics, and shape when new features are ready for release within Ads Agent.