Senior Applied Scientist — Generative AI for Ads

Amazon; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Ads seeks an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to advance ML and AI across the advertising lifecycle. You will lead research, build scalable models, and deploy solutions that influence ad ranking, personalization, and measurement at massive scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product leaders to balance customer experience with advertiser goals, while enjoying opportunities for leadership, mentorship, and career growth in a culture of innovation.

Qualifications

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

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 natural language processing, 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

ML models

PhD or MS + 6+ yrs

Java/C++/Python

Deep learning

Education

PhD

Master's + 6+ yrs applied research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon Ads seeks an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to advance ML and AI across the advertising lifecycle. You will lead research, build scalable models, and deploy solutions that influence ad ranking, personalization, and measurement at massive scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product leaders to balance customer experience with advertiser goals, while enjoying opportunities for leadership, mentorship, and career growth in a culture of innovation.