Senior Applied Scientist – AI-Powered Ads at Scale

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

Job summary

Amazon Science in New York (NY) seeks an experienced Applied Scientist to drive innovation in Ads Foundational Model. You will apply advanced ML techniques to improve advertiser performance and customer experience in a green-field setup.

The role emphasizes building state-of-the-art evaluations for the Ads Agent, collaborating with senior scientists, and delivering data-driven foundations to guide feature launches at internet scale. A PhD or MS with 6+ years of research is preferred.

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 to develop best practices for evaluating agent performance online and offline.
• Raise the science bar for all agent evaluations developed in Ads.
• Deliver data driven foundations for deciding when new features are ready to launch in Ads Agent.

Skills

Applied ML

Programming in Python/Java/C++

Experimentation

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Hadoop

Spark

numpy

scipy

Job description

Amazon Science in New York (NY) seeks an experienced Applied Scientist to drive innovation in Ads Foundational Model. You will apply advanced ML techniques to improve advertiser performance and customer experience in a green-field setup.

The role emphasizes building state-of-the-art evaluations for the Ads Agent, collaborating with senior scientists, and delivering data-driven foundations to guide feature launches at internet scale. A PhD or MS with 6+ years of research is preferred.