Senior Applied Scientist, DemandTech & AdDelivery

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

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist for DemandTech - AdDelivery, Experience and Measurement. You will build predictive models and design policy for autonomous optimization in the Sponsored Ads ecosystem.

You will collaborate with software engineers, define reward schemas, and integrate cross-model signals to improve advertiser outcomes and platform performance. Requires 3+ years ML experience and strong coding in Java/C++/Python.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build predictive models to detect campaign under-delivery, over-delivery, and performance degradation.
• Design intervention-selection policy framed as a contextual bandit.
• Establish causal attribution for autonomous optimization.
• Integrate cross-model signals into a unified advertiser‑intelligence view.
• Define reward schemas and close feedback loops with product and partner teams.

Skills

ML model building

Java

C++

Python

Neural networks

Education

PhD or MS with 6+ years of applied research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist for DemandTech - AdDelivery, Experience and Measurement. You will build predictive models and design policy for autonomous optimization in the Sponsored Ads ecosystem.

You will collaborate with software engineers, define reward schemas, and integrate cross-model signals to improve advertiser outcomes and platform performance. Requires 3+ years ML experience and strong coding in Java/C++/Python.