Senior Manager, GenAI Applied Science & Content Safety

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 241,000 - 326,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU equity

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Advertising seeks leaders to own the scientific direction for creative quality assessment, content moderation, and multimodal understanding. You will manage and grow a team of applied scientists, driving end-to-end programs and accountable production models across complex domains.

The role emphasizes developing evaluation benchmarks, applying advanced CV/vision-language approaches, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to scale impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing applied science or ML teams, incl. 2+ years with managers.
• 7+ years applied science in CV, multimodal understanding, or content moderation.
• Experience delivering production ML models for content understanding, quality assessment, or safety and moderation.
• PhD, or Master’s +7 years in CS/CE/ML or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the scientific direction for creative quality assessment, content moderation and trust and safety, evaluation and benchmarking, and multimodal content understanding.
• Directly lead a team of applied scientists while managing subordinate leads and managers as the portfolio grows.
• Drive end-to-end applied science programs with high ambiguity, scale, and complexity; be accountable for production models.
• Advance the science of evaluation by defining metrics for creative quality, safety, and brand compliance and build benchmarks.
• Research and apply new approaches in computer vision, vision-language models, and multimodal understanding.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow high-performing scientists and managers, raising the hiring and technical bar.
• Establish planning, design reviews, and cross-functional partnership with product and engineering.

Skills

Team leadership

Applied science leadership

ML model development

Strategic thinking

Education

PhD

Master's degree in CS/CE/ML

Advanced degree in quantitative field

Job description

Amazon Advertising seeks leaders to own the scientific direction for creative quality assessment, content moderation, and multimodal understanding. You will manage and grow a team of applied scientists, driving end-to-end programs and accountable production models across complex domains.

The role emphasizes developing evaluation benchmarks, applying advanced CV/vision-language approaches, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to scale impactful solutions.