Senior Applied Scientist, Marketing Measurement & Causal ML

Amazon; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon’s Customer Behavior Analytics team is hiring an Sr. Applied Scientist to advance Marketing Measurement solutions.

You will develop scalable ML and causal inference models to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon’s marketing efforts and deliver actionable insights to marketing teams. You will work with product managers and software engineers to translate data into business questions, apply ML/DL and statistics at scale, and contribute to research shared with the Amazon science community.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years building ML models for business applications.
• PhD, or Master’s degree and 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

• Apply Transformer models, LLMs, ML/DL and statistical modeling to develop solutions describing how marketing campaigns impact customer actions.
• Own end-to-end development of novel causal inference models addressing business needs.
• Improve and simplify existing models and frameworks.
• Review and audit modeling processes and results from other scientists.
• Collaborate with marketing leadership to align measurement with business strategy.
• Formalize model assumptions and explain their reasoning.
• Identify opportunities suggested by data insights and contribute to department-wide decision making.
• Develop and document scientific research for the broader Amazon science community.

Skills

Applied research

ML model development

Programming: Java/C++/Python

Deep learning

Education

PhD or Master’s + 6+ years research

Tools

R / scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet / TensorFlow

NumPy / SciPy

Job description

Amazon’s Customer Behavior Analytics team is hiring an Sr. Applied Scientist to advance Marketing Measurement solutions.

You will develop scalable ML and causal inference models to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon’s marketing efforts and deliver actionable insights to marketing teams. You will work with product managers and software engineers to translate data into business questions, apply ML/DL and statistics at scale, and contribute to research shared with the Amazon science community.