Sr. Applied Scientist, DemandTech - AdDelivery, Experience and Measurement

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

Sr. Applied Scientist, DemandTech - AdDelivery, Experience and Measurement

Job ID: 10559440 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Want to work on building a Amazon Ads billion dollar business, innovate on a new product, and have a positive impact on millions of views while working with industry-leading technologies? We're growing a team to support the Sponsored Ads business that powers the advertising experience for millions of viewers and advertisers daily. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are constantly challenging ourselves to create world-class products and an unparalleled shopping experience for our hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Key Job Responsibilities

We are building the next-gen smart ads campaign. At its core is anIntelligence Flywheel— an architecture where every component's output is designed to train models that improve every other component. The Model Layer that is meant to power every capability currently has no dedicated science ownership.

• Build predictive issue-detection modelsthat identify under-delivery, over-delivery, and performance degradation from campaign signalsbeforethey materially impact advertisers.
• Design the intervention-selection policy— which autonomous action to take — framed as a contextual bandit: choose, observe, update. Engineers implement action execution; you define the policy that selects actions.
• Establish causal attribution for autonomous optimization, separating the effect of our interventions from organic performance change, so improvements can be attributed and advertiser trust in autonomy can be earned.
• Integrate and adapt cross-model signals.Combine creative-quality, product-relevance, and budget signals into a unified advertiser‑intelligence picture, and adapt general-purpose partner models to our product reality via fine-tuning, re-ranking, or thin adaptation layers.
• Close recommendation and grading feedback loops— define reward schemas for accept/reject and performance‑vs‑baseline signals, correlate creative-quality scores with real campaign outcomes, and feed empirical findings back to both our product and partner science teams.

You will work backwards from ambiguous business problems, set the science roadmap for the Model Layer, and partner closely with the team's software engineers — who own the services, pipelines, and execution infrastructure — so that model artifacts you produce are deployed and served in production. This is a high-leverage, high-autonomy role: your outputs are consumed by multiple engineering workstreams at once, and you set the abstractions the team builds on.

About the team

We are focused on goal-oriented, AI powered workflows that help advertisers achieve their marketing objectives. We collect campaign goals, surface relevant data at key decision points, and provide reporting that validates decision-making. Our product suite guides advertisers in building campaigns with optimal targeting, creative formats, inventory, and bid models that are highly likely to hit their goals — reducing the need for manual intervention.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
• Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, NY, New York - 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.